/assumption-destruction

name: assumption-destruction
description: Assumption Destruction Campaign — open new solution spaces by negating,
  reversing, and challenging fundamental assumptions.
execution: campaign
dependencies:
  strategies:
  - anti-benchmark
  - axiom-negation
  - reverse-brainstorming
  - sacred-cow-hunting
  - worst-method-inversion
  tactics:
  - creative-ideation-assumption-enumeration
  - creative-ideation-provocation-generation
  - evaluation-filtering
  - inversion-protocol
  sops:
  - context-checkpoint
  - context-init
  - creative-ideation-assumption-surfacing
  - creative-ideation-novelty-scoring
  - creative-ideation-saturation-detection
  - idea-synthesis
  - po-provocation

Assumption Destruction

Open new solution spaces by negating, reversing, and challenging fundamental assumptions.

Strategy Routing

| Strategy | Signal Keywords | |----------|----------------| | axiom-negation | negate, suspend, PO, de Bono, what if not, challenge axiom | | reverse-brainstorming | worse, reverse, anti-solution, how to fail, sabotage | | worst-method-inversion | worst possible, terrible solution, invert bad, flip failure | | anti-benchmark | best practice, industry standard, benchmark, conventional wisdom | | sacred-cow-hunting | unquestioned, sacred cow, taboo, never challenged, dogma |

Manifest

Strategies

| Strategy | Description | |----------|-------------| | axiom-negation | Identify and suspend fundamental assumptions via de Bono PO | | reverse-brainstorming | How to make it worse? → reverse for solutions | | worst-method-inversion | Design worst possible solution → extract insights → invert | | anti-benchmark | Challenge industry best practices' hidden assumptions | | sacred-cow-hunting | Find and challenge domain's unquestioned beliefs |

Tactics

| Tactic | Description | |--------|-------------| | provocation-generation | Generate PO provocations and extract constructive movement (shared) | | assumption-enumeration | Surface, perturb, and prioritize assumptions by disruption potential | | inversion-protocol | Reverse statements → extract insights → build constructive alternatives |

SOPs

| SOP | Description | |-----|-------------| | assumption-perturbation | Perturb each assumption, observe system response | | reversal-generation | Systematically reverse positive statements | | worst-case-design | Design the worst possible solution | | inversion-extraction | Extract constructive insights from worst solutions | | benchmark-challenge | Identify and negate benchmark assumptions | | sacred-cow-identification | Find domain's unquestioned beliefs | | constructive-rebellion | Build constructive alternatives from destructive negation | | destruction-synthesis | Synthesize all assumption destruction outputs |

Budget Table

| Strategy | web-search | web-research | paper-overview | paper-search | paper-research | |----------|-----------|-------------|---------------|-------------|---------------| | axiom-negation | 20 | 5 | 20 | 12 | 5 | | reverse-brainstorming | 15 | 5 | 15 | 10 | 3 | | worst-method-inversion | 15 | 5 | 15 | 10 | 3 | | anti-benchmark | 25 | 10 | 25 | 15 | 5 | | sacred-cow-hunting | 30 | 10 | 25 | 15 | 8 |

MCP Tools

| Tool | Server | Purpose | |------|--------|---------| | brave_web_search | brave-search | General web search for methods and examples | | brave_llm_context | brave-search | Deep content extraction from web pages | | apify/rag-web-browser | apify | Full page scraping for detailed content | | get_paper_content | alphaxiv | Read academic paper content | | discover_papers | alphaxiv | Find relevant research papers | | relevanceSearch | semantic-scholar | Search academic literature | | paper | semantic-scholar | Get paper details | | citations | semantic-scholar | Trace citation networks |

Context Management

• Each strategy tracks its own budget via State Ledger
• Strategies MUST NOT exceed allocated budget
• Campaign monitors cumulative spend across all strategies
• If a strategy exhausts budget before meeting yield, escalate to campaign level for reallocation
• Prefer paper-overview over paper-research for initial exploration (lower cost)

Available Tactics

| Tactic | Role | |--------|------| | provocation-generation | Generate PO provocations and extract movement (shared) | | assumption-enumeration | Surface and prioritize assumptions by disruption potential | | inversion-protocol | Reverse → extract → build constructive alternatives |

Available SOPs

| SOP | Role | |-----|------| | assumption-perturbation | Perturb assumptions and observe system response | | reversal-generation | Systematically reverse positive statements | | worst-case-design | Design worst possible solution | | inversion-extraction | Extract constructive insights from inversions | | benchmark-challenge | Negate benchmark assumptions | | sacred-cow-identification | Find unquestioned beliefs | | constructive-rebellion | Build alternatives from negation | | destruction-synthesis | Final synthesis of all outputs |

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Available Strategies

Optional, no fixed order; the final leaf is always a sop.

| Strategy | When to use | | --- | --- | | anti-benchmark | Challenge industry best practices' hidden assumptions. Deconstruct benchmarks to reveal unexamined constraints. | | axiom-negation | Identify and suspend fundamental assumptions via de Bono PO. Systematically negate axioms to reveal hidden solution spaces. | | reverse-brainstorming | How to make it worse? → reverse for solutions. Generate anti-solutions then invert to discover novel approaches. | | sacred-cow-hunting | Find and challenge domain's unquestioned beliefs. Systematic identification and productive violation of dogma. | | worst-method-inversion | Design worst possible solution → extract insights → invert. Deliberate failure design as creative catalyst. |

Available Tactics

Optional, no fixed order; the final leaf is always a sop.

| Tactic