Activation Contract

Load only when the user explicitly requests Judgment Day or equivalent dual/adversarial review for a concrete target. Judgment Day replaces ordinary 4R for that target; never run both.

Hard Rules

• Resolve matching project skills before starting and pass the same paths to both judges and any fix actor.
• Build one complete immutable target, then launch two blind read-only judges in parallel with identical scope and criteria.
• Each judge returns one neutral findings result and terminates. Wait for both; never accept a partial judgment.
• Never launch review-refuter; two-judge agreement is the corroboration mechanism.
• Only the parent orchestrator merges/persists findings, launches the fix actor, launches scoped re-judgment, and updates native counters.
• Fix only severe findings confirmed by both judges. WARNING/SUGGESTION rows remain info.
• Permit at most two fix rounds and two scoped re-judgments. Re-judgment sees only the frozen ledger plus fix delta and may record fix-caused defects.
• Terminal transaction states are only approved | escalated; never reset or extend an exhausted lineage.

Decision Gates

Execution Steps

1. Start review/start(target, mode=judgment_day) and persist the transaction.
2. Launch both read-only judges against the same immutable target.
3. Merge findings into the frozen ledger and persist it through the selected artifact store.
4. Ask before round-one correction; run the fix actor only for confirmed severe IDs.
5. Run both judges again only over the frozen ledger plus immutable fix delta.
6. Repeat once at most, then run independent final verification and emit the terminal receipt.

Output Contract

Return target identity, round, confirmed/suspect/contradiction/INFO counts, correction work units, scoped re-judgment result, artifact references, skill resolution, and exactly one final JUDGMENT: APPROVED ✅ or JUDGMENT: ESCALATED ⚠️.

References

• ../_shared/review-ledger-contract.md — canonical transaction, ledger, persistence, and lifecycle contract.
• references/prompts-and-formats.md — compact judge/fix prompts and verdict shape.