/bridge-validation

name: bridge-validation
description: Validate analogy depth and transfer viability. Ensures only deep structural
  analogies (not surface-level similarities) proceed to transfer.
execution: tactic
dependencies:
  sops:
  - analogy-quality-assessment
  - structural-mapping
  - transfer-adaptation

Bridge Validation

Validate analogy depth and transfer viability before committing resources to transfer.

Stages

Stage 1: Analogy Quality Assessment

Apply analogy-quality-assessment SOP to each candidate analogy. Classify depth:

• **Surface**: Shared object attributes only (e.g., "both are round") — REJECT
• **Structural**: Shared relational structure (e.g., "both use negative feedback to maintain homeostasis") — ACCEPT
• **Systemic**: Shared higher-order constraints and causal structure — STRONG ACCEPT

Stage 2: Transfer Adaptation

For accepted analogies, test transfer viability using transfer-adaptation SOP:

• Can the principle be stated independently of source domain?
• Does the target domain have the necessary substrate for the principle?
• What adaptations are needed to fit target constraints?

Stage 3: Structural Consistency Check

Verify the adapted transfer maintains structural consistency:

• Mapped relations preserve directionality
• Higher-order constraints are respected
• No critical source elements are unmapped without justification
• The transfer does not violate known target domain physics/logic

Minimum Yield

| Metric | Floor | |--------|-------| | Analogies assessed | all candidates | | Validated deep analogies | ≥2 | | Transfer viability confirmed | ≥2 | | Structural consistency verified | ≥2 |

Available SOPs

| SOP | Role | |-----|------| | analogy-quality-assessment | Stage 1 — classify analogy depth | | transfer-adaptation | Stage 2 — test and adapt transfer | | structural-mapping | Stage 3 — verify structural consistency | | abstraction-extraction | Support — re-abstract if mapping fails |

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Available SOPs

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

| SOP | When to use | | --- | --- | | analogy-quality-assessment | Assess analogy depth (surface/structural/systemic). Determines whether an analogy warrants transfer investment. | | structural-mapping | Map source→target structural correspondences. Identifies corresponding, missing, and extra elements between domains. | | transfer-adaptation | Adapt transferred principle to target problem constraints. Produces concrete adapted solutions from abstract principles. |

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