do-competitively

Execute tasks through competitive generation, multi-judge evaluation, and evidence-based synthesis to produce superior results.

• Purpose - Generate multiple solutions competitively, evaluate with independent judges, synthesize best elements

• Pattern - Generate-Critique-Synthesize (GCS) with self-critique, verification loops, and adaptive strategy selection

• Output - Superior solution combining best elements from all candidates

• Quality - Enhanced with Constitutional AI self-critique, Chain of Verification, and intelligent strategy selection

• Efficiency - 15-20% average cost savings through adaptive strategy (polish clear winners, redesign failures)

Pattern: Generate-Critique-Synthesize (GCS)

This command implements a four-phase adaptive competitive orchestration pattern with quality enhancement loops:

Phase 1: Competitive Generation with Self-Critique
         ┌─ Agent 1 → Draft → Self-Critique → Revise → Solution A ─┐
Task ───┼─ Agent 2 → Draft → Self-Critique → Revise → Solution B ─┼─┐
         └─ Agent 3 → Draft → Self-Critique → Revise → Solution C ─┘ │
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Phase 2: Multi-Judge Evaluation with Verification                │
         ┌─ Judge 1 → Evaluate → Verify → Revise → Report A ─┐  │
         ├─ Judge 2 → Evaluate → Verify → Revise → Report B ─┼──┤
         └─ Judge 3 → Evaluate → Verify → Revise → Report C ─┘  │
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Phase 2.5: Adaptive Strategy Selection                           │
         Analyze Consensus ──────────────────────────────────────┤
                ├─ Clear Winner? → SELECT_AND_POLISH             │
                ├─ All Flawed (<3.0)? → REDESIGN (return Phase 1)│
                └─ Split Decision? → FULL_SYNTHESIS              │
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Phase 3: Evidence-Based Synthesis        │                       │
         (Only if FULL_SYNTHESIS)         │                       │
         Synthesizer ─────────────────────┴───────────────────────┴─→ Final Solution

Usage

# Basic usage
/do-competitively <task-description>

# With explicit output specification
/do-competitively "Create authentication middleware" --output "src/middleware/auth.ts"

# With specific evaluation criteria
/do-competitively "Design user schema" --criteria "scalability,security,developer-experience"

When to Use

Use this command when:

• Quality is critical - Multiple perspectives catch flaws single agents miss

• Novel/ambiguous tasks - No clear "right answer", exploration needed

• High-stakes decisions - Architecture choices, API design, critical algorithms

• Learning/evaluation - Compare approaches to understand trade-offs

• Avoiding local optima - Competitive generation explores solution space better

Do NOT use when:

• Simple, well-defined tasks with obvious solutions

• Time-sensitive changes

• Trivial bug fixes or typos

• Tasks with only one viable approach

Quality Enhancement Techniques

Techniques that were used to enhance the quality of the competitive execution pattern.

Phase	Technique	Benefit
Phase 1	Constitutional AI Self-Critique	Generators review and fix their own solutions before submission, catching 40-60% of issues
Phase 2	Chain of Verification	Judges verify their evaluations with structured questions, improving calibration and reducing bias
Phase 2.5	Adaptive Strategy Selection	Orchestrator parses structured judge outputs (VOTE+SCORES) to select optimal strategy, saving 15-20% cost on average
Phase 3	Evidence-Based Synthesis	Combines proven best elements rather than creating new solutions (only when needed)

Theoretical Foundation

The competitive execution pattern combines insights from:

Academic Research:

• Multi-Agent Debate (Du et al., 2023) - Diverse perspectives improve reasoning

• Self-Consistency (Wang et al., 2022) - Multiple reasoning paths improve reliability

• Tree of Thoughts (Yao et al., 2023) - Exploration of solution branches before commitment

• Constitutional AI (Bai et al., 2022) - Self-critique loops catch 40-60% of issues before review

• Chain-of-Verification (Dhuliawala et al., 2023) - Structured verification reduces bias

• LLM-as-a-Judge (Zheng et al., 2023) - Structured evaluation rubrics

Engineering Practices:

• Design Studio Method - Parallel design, critique, synthesis

• Spike Solutions (XP/Agile) - Explore approaches, combine best

• A/B Testing - Compare alternatives with clear metrics

• Ensemble Methods - Combining multiple models improves performance