Ultra review

The Genius Review Duel

Last updated July 10, 2026

Ultra review

Ultra runs review genius-tier too. Each review round is a fixed duel of the same two seats read from the frozen run state.

The duel

  1. Blind review. plato and aristotle each review the diff blind, in parallel. This is one holistic pass covering all lenses at once. The lenses become a rubric rather than a per-lens genius fan-out, which would blow up cost. The persona stays deep-reviewer (for the clean call-site schema); only the model is the genius chain.
  2. Cross red-team. Each seat red-teams the rival's findings against the actual code, adversarially, with concrete evidence.
  3. Synthesis. plato synthesizes the final kept set as sole owner, plus a verdict per lens. It keeps only findings that survived the cross-red-team with evidence and drops nits, dupes, and false positives.

Subsuming the verifier

In the normal loop, a per-finding refute-verifier gates the fixers. In an ultra round there is no separate verify pass. The cross-red-team already tried to knock each finding down, so the synthesis output is the confirmed set. Kept equals confirmed with no task-tier verify spawns.

The synthesis output still passes through the same numeric gate (priority <= 1, confidence >= 0.6) as the normal path.

A fixed shape

Ultra review is always a duel, regardless of the planning topology. Crossreview and debate do not map to review. You do not "revise a review"; you re-review after fixes, which the outer round loop already does. Cost is bounded to roughly five genius calls per round, with an early exit on a clean round and a cap at MAX_ROUNDS.

Shared back half

Ultra swaps only the front half of run_review_loop. The reviewer fan-out plus the judge are replaced by the genius duel of ultra_review_round(). Everything after "here are the confirmed findings" is the identical code the normal loop runs: the numeric gate, the fixers, the round loop, MAX_ROUNDS, the budget gate, clean detection, and the found / kept / confirmed dashboard records. Normal /supership runs are byte-for-byte unaffected.

Info

Ultra review rides the same ULTRA flag as ultra planning. There is no new config and no new command. You cannot get ultra review on a normally-planned run, which is an accepted non-goal. The one exception is /superreview, which is always ultra.

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