Mitigation Validation

---
name: mitigation-validation
description: "Tactic: Run mini-FMEA on proposed mitigations to verify they do not introduce new failure modes. Prevents mitigation-induced risks."
type: tactic
used-by: [failure-anticipation]
strategies: [design-fmea, process-fmea, mitigation-design]
---

# Mitigation Validation Tactic

Validate that proposed mitigations do not introduce new failure modes — a mini-FMEA on the mitigations themselves.

## Orchestration

1. Receive proposed mitigation measures from mitigation-design-sop
2. **failure-mode-extraction** identifies potential failure modes of each mitigation:
   - Could the prevention measure fail?
   - Could the detection mechanism produce false negatives?
   - Could the response plan create new problems?
3. **severity-scoring** rates new failure modes
4. If any new mode scores H-priority:
   - Flag mitigation as risky
   - **mitigation-design-sop** redesigns or adds safeguards
   - Re-validate (max 2 iterations to prevent infinite loops)
5. **re-scoring** confirms final S/O/D with validated mitigations

## Iteration Control

- Max validation iterations: 2 (prevent infinite recursion)
- If still H-priority after 2 iterations: escalate to human review
- Document residual risk for accepted mitigations

## Subagents Dispatched

- failure-mode-extraction (mitigation failure identification)
- severity-scoring (new risk assessment)
- mitigation-design-sop (redesign if needed)
- re-scoring (final confirmation)

## Termination Conditions

- All mitigations validated as not introducing H-priority risks
- Max iterations reached (escalate with documentation)
- Residual risk accepted and documented