Research

7 operators (Substitute/Combine/Adapt/Modify/Put/Eliminate/Reverse) for systematic transformation of existing solutions.

Execute SCAMPER 7 operators on a target solution. Subagent self-selects best 2-3 operators for deepest exploration.

Detect regime changes in scaling behavior — breakpoints where behavior qualitatively shifts, mechanisms behind transitions.

Analyze behavior across scales — detect regime changes, identify capacity limits, fit scaling laws within regimes.

Design scaling experiments to characterize performance-resource relationships

Track score trajectories, detect saturation/failure points — 15 benchmarks, 50 papers, 60 web searches

SOP: power analysis and required experiment count estimation

Classify stakeholders by Mitchell et al. framework (Power, Legitimacy, Urgency). Assigns salience category and identifies systematically excluded parties.

Find domain's unquestioned beliefs. Systematic identification of dogma that constrains innovation.

Find and challenge domain's unquestioned beliefs. Systematic identification and productive violation of dogma.

Decide whether to continue iterating or stop based on consensus score, round number, and stability.

Drill from surface symptoms to root causes via 5 Whys, Ishikawa decomposition, and Current Reality Trees. Validates each causal link with literature evidence.

Role-play as reviewer/practitioner/theorist/novice/competitor to generate diverse perspectives on a solution.

Select portfolios that perform well across multiple future scenarios using Minimax regret, Robust optimization, Scenario planning, and Info-gap methods.

Test conclusion robustness via multi-model convergence — enumerate assumptions, generate alternatives, compare results, flag fragile conclusions.

Compute robustness index across scenarios with sensitivity analysis

Design experiments to identify failure boundaries and robustness limits

Strategy: Action Priority matrix — classifies failure modes into H/M/L priority using severity-weighted scoring per AIAG-VDA 2019 Action Priority tables.

Assess methodological bias using RoB2, PROBAST, or QUADAS-2 validated tools

Balance portfolio risk and return using Markowitz mean-variance, CVaR, Risk parity, and Kelly criterion methods.

Hostile reviewer perspective — find fatal flaws, logical gaps, and missing evidence in a solution.

How to make it worse? → reverse for solutions. Generate anti-solutions then invert to discover novel approaches.

Systematically reverse positive statements to generate creative inversions. Produces reversed statements with initial associations.

Argue for rejected candidates using Devil's Advocacy, Dialectical Inquiry, and Adversarial Collaboration to ensure elimination was justified.