Adversarial Persona

---
name: adversarial-persona
description: "Strategy: Role-play attacks from hostile personas — competing lab researcher, hostile reviewer, funding skeptic, domain outsider — each with distinct attack motivations and blind spots."
type: strategy
used-by: [red-teaming]
tactics: [adversarial-roleplay, structured-attack-campaign]
---

# Adversarial Persona Strategy

Construct and deploy hostile personas that attack from distinct motivational frames. Each persona has unique expertise, biases, and attack patterns.

## Method

1. **persona-construction** builds detailed adversary profiles (background, motivation, expertise, blind spots)
2. Each persona attacks from their specific frame:
   - Hostile Reviewer: methodological rigor, statistical validity, novelty claims
   - Competing Lab: priority disputes, alternative approaches, resource efficiency
   - Funding Skeptic: impact claims, feasibility, timeline realism
   - Domain Outsider: jargon opacity, unstated assumptions, accessibility
3. **probe-execution** executes persona-specific attacks
4. Cross-persona findings compared to identify convergent vulnerabilities
5. **finding-aggregation** synthesizes across all persona perspectives

## Budget Table

| Parameter | S | M | L |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attack vectors | 5 | 12 | 20 |
| Probing rounds | 3 | 6 | 10 |
| Personas | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| Assumption checks | 5 | 10 | 20 |

## Orchestration

```
persona-construction → [build N personas per budget]
→ [for each persona]:
    attack-vector-generation (persona-specific vectors)
    → probe-execution (execute persona attacks)
→ finding-aggregation (cross-persona synthesis)
→ attack-resilience-scoring
```

## Subagents

- persona-construction (adversary profile building)
- attack-vector-generation (persona-specific attack design)
- probe-execution (persona attack execution)
- finding-aggregation (cross-persona synthesis)
- attack-resilience-scoring (convergent vulnerability scoring)