/boundary-analysis

name: boundary-analysis
description: Boundary Analysis Campaign — probe where methods fail, map validity envelopes,
  test robustness, catalog failure modes, detect scaling limits. 5 strategies, 3 tactics,
  11 subagent SOPs.
execution: campaign
dependencies:
  strategies:
  - boundary-critique
  - deep-insight-validity-envelope-mapping
  - failure-mode-analysis
  - robustness-testing
  - scaling-frontier
  sops:
  - boundary-synthesis
  - context-checkpoint
  - context-init

Boundary Analysis

Probe where methods fail — validity envelopes, robustness, failure modes, scaling limits.

Design Philosophy

This campaign is a strategy book — CC reads, internalizes, and autonomously constructs an approach. The SKILL.md files are textbooks, not scripts.

Strategy Routing

| Signal | Strategy | |--------|----------| | Valid conditions, applicability range, multi-axis variation, degradation curves | → validity-envelope-mapping | | Cross-method consistency, multi-model convergence, Wimsatt robustness | → robustness-testing | | System boundaries, inclusion/exclusion, CSH critique | → boundary-critique | | Failure modes, boundary inputs, distribution shift, adversarial | → failure-mode-analysis | | Scaling limits, scaling law, behavioral phase transitions, capacity | → scaling-frontier |

Available Tactics

• multi-model-convergence — Wimsatt-style cross-validation
• systematic-perturbation — multi-axis validity probing
• failure-mode-cataloging — systematic failure taxonomy

Available SOPs

**Import (5):** web-search, web-research, paper-overview, paper-search, paper-research

**Subagent (11):** assumption-enumeration, alternative-model-generation, convergence-assessment, fragility-flagging, variation-axis-definition, controlled-perturbation, validity-envelope-construction, edge-case-generation, failure-clustering, scaling-regime-detection, boundary-synthesis

**Shared (1):** evidence-synthesis

Context Management

context-checkpoint after each strategy completes.

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Available Strategies

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

| Strategy | When to use | | --- | --- | | boundary-critique | Apply CSH boundary critique — what is included/excluded, who benefits/is harmed, what expertise is privileged/marginalized. Identifies opportunities at the boundaries. | | deep-insight-validity-envelope-mapping | Map multi-dimensional validity envelopes — define variation axes, perturb systematically, measure degradation, construct boundary surface. | | failure-mode-analysis | Systematically catalog failure modes — generate edge cases, observe failures, cluster by mechanism, identify triggers and frequency. | | robustness-testing | Test conclusion robustness via multi-model convergence — enumerate assumptions, generate alternatives, compare results, flag fragile conclusions. | | scaling-frontier | Analyze behavior across scales — detect regime changes, identify capacity limits, fit scaling laws within regimes. |

Available SOPs

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

| SOP | When to use | | --- | --- | | boundary-synthesis | Compile all boundary analysis products into a coherent report — validity envelopes, robustness results, failure catalogs, scaling maps, safe operating conditions. | | context-checkpoint | Append research process and results to the current Phase's context file. Covers both process and results with genuine substance. Use this skill at plan-designated checkpoint points — typically after each strategy completes or at key decision nodes within a research Phase. | | context-init | Create a new context file for a research Phase. Called once at Phase start to initialize the file that subsequent context-checkpoint calls will append to. Use this skill whenever a new research Phase begins and a fresh context file is needed. |

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