steel-quench

# steel-quench — All-Angle Verification Meta-Skill > Heating steel and plunging it into water brings internal defects to the surface. quench-challenger attacks → defense → repeat = systematic surfacing and elimination of design flaws. A designer's anxiety is most dangerous when vague. steel-quench breaks that anxiety into concrete attack angles, defends against them, and closes with residual risks explicitly stated. > **Scope boundary**: steel-quench stress-tests a **near-complete artifact** (post-build). For pre-build design decisions → `deliberation`. For completed-asset validation → `sim-conductor`. ## Trigger Phrases | Phrase | Situation | |---|---| | "quench this", "run quench" | All-angle verification just before completion | | "devil's judgment" | Focused challenger attack on specific design decision | | "all-angle review", "end-to-end verification" | Full project scope verification | | "shake out design anxiety", "deep pre-completion inspection" | Concretize vague anxiety | | "attack from the root" | Re-verify from reason for existence | | "diagnose with counterexample", "use this bad case as reference" | Phase 0 calibration | | "did it really pass?", "re-attack after the gate", "the gate said PASS" | Wave-P3 gate-passage re-attack | | `/steel-quench` | Explicit call | --- ## Wave Structure | Wave | Role | Termination | |---|---|---| | **Phase 0** (optional) | Counterexample calibration — extract patterns from external bad cases, merge into Wave 1 (→ `SKILL_de...