Research

Novice perspective — question the 'obvious' by adopting deliberate ignorance to reveal hidden complexity.

Converge all accumulated context into a crystallized North Star statement and structured ResearchBrief. Performs self-review before presenting to user. Use as the final tactic in any start mode — this is where everything comes together.

Goal-Driven Requirement Refinement Engine for Research. Crystallize a user's fuzzy research intent into a North Star statement and structured ResearchBrief through adaptive dialogue and on-demand investigation.

Normalize a score matrix using a specified method to make scores comparable across criteria.

Eliminate non-qualifying candidates using conjunctive rules, dominance filtering, lexicographic ordering, or veto thresholds.

Map each candidate to the niches it covers, indicating strength of coverage for each assignment.

Define niches and capability areas that a portfolio should cover based on domain structure and objectives.

Define niches within the solution space, map candidates to niches, score coverage completeness, and identify gaps requiring attention.

Compare N methods simultaneously including indirect evidence — network meta-analysis protocol design. Budget: 50 studies, 80 effect sizes, 60 web searches.

Define strongest plausible alternatives (negations) for each assumption to enable perturbation analysis.

Strategy: Probability of Necessity and Sufficiency (PNS/PS) — systematically evaluate whether each factor is necessary, sufficient, both, or neither for the conclusion.

Evaluate the probability of necessity (PN) for a causal factor — would the conclusion fail if this factor were absent?

What is the story of each future? — Shell method narrative construction for rich qualitative scenario understanding

Theory-driven literature review for building arguments and frameworks. Flexible, subjective, and narrative-focused — selects evidence strategically to support a thesis. High web-research budget for blogs, opinion pieces, and industry perspectives. Use when the user is writing a position paper, survey introduction, or constructing a coherent narrative around a research theme.

Theory-driven reading tactic — define a theoretical framework first, then guide reading to fill it with evidence. Five stages (theme identification, argument construction, evidence collection, counter-evidence, synthesis). The most intellectually demanding tactic.

Campaign: Multi-agent structured debate for adversarial validation. Core question: Can this artifact survive structured adversarial debate? Methods: Irving AI Safety via Debate, Du Society of Mind, Liang MAD, Toulmin Argumentation, D3 framework.

Multi-worldview comparison — CATWOE from multiple perspectives, reframing matrix across professional lenses, identify overlooked framings. Reveals what single-perspective analysis misses.

Apply CATWOE from multiple stakeholder viewpoints and reframing matrix to reveal aspects invisible from the dominant perspective.

Strategy: Multi-stakeholder review panel — diverse expert perspectives evaluate artifact simultaneously, then synthesize through structured deliberation.

Assign distinct perspectives to attack a decision from multiple angles, then synthesize findings into a unified assessment.

Wimsatt-style multi-method cross-validation — enumerate assumptions, generate alternative models, compare results, flag divergences.

Apply 2-3 MCDA methods to the same candidates, compare rankings, and identify method-sensitive options.

Simultaneous concept collision at multiple abstraction levels

Collect independent rankings from multiple judges, aggregate using social choice methods, and identify disagreement hotspots.