/extract-biological-strategy

name: extract-biological-strategy
description: "Extract the causal strategy/mechanism by which a biological analog achieves its function, including boundary conditions and trade-offs."

extract-biological-strategy

Purpose

Extract the causal mechanism, boundary conditions, and trade-offs by which a biological analog achieves its function.

Input contract

required: [biological_analog, function_evidence]
optional: [mechanism_literature, environmental_conditions, tradeoffs]
constraints: [strategy claims must distinguish mechanism from observed outcome]

Procedure

1. Trace the analog's structures, processes, and feedback that produce the function. 2. State boundary conditions, resources, and failure modes. 3. Separate transferable principles from organism-specific implementation details.

Output contract

produces: [biological_mechanism, boundary_conditions, tradeoff_register, transferable_principles]
delta_fields: [findings, evidence_updates, hypothesis_updates, uncertainties]

Quality gates

• Mechanism is causally connected to function and includes conditions under which transfer would fail.

Failure and counterexamples

Reject metaphorical descriptions without mechanism or principles that omit resource and trade-off constraints.

Provenance map

• `biomimicry/abstract`: concept (no exact pool entry).
• `biotriz`: concept (no exact pool entry).