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
- Blind review.
platoandaristotleeach 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 staysdeep-reviewer(for the clean call-site schema); only the model is the genius chain. - Cross red-team. Each seat red-teams the rival's findings against the actual code, adversarially, with concrete evidence.
- Synthesis.
platosynthesizes 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.
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.