/identify-bottleneck

name: identify-bottleneck
description: "Identify the limiting dimension or dependency currently constraining progress."

identify-bottleneck

Purpose

Identify the limiting dimension or dependency currently constraining progress.

Input contract

required: [goal_state, dependency_or_factor_set, progress_evidence]
optional: [capacity_limits, intervention_history, bottleneck_definition]
constraints: [bottleneck claim requires a limiting relation and evidence]

Procedure

1. Map factors and dependencies to the blocked outcome. 2. Compare capacities, delays, and failure frequencies. 3. Test candidate limits by tracing counterfactual relief or substitution. 4. Return primary bottleneck, alternatives, and evidence gaps.

Output contract

produces: [bottleneck_assessment, limiting_relation, candidate_reliefs, evidence_gaps]
delta_fields: [findings, decisions, uncertainties]

Quality gates

• Limiting dimension is distinguished from a visible symptom.
• At least one alternative bottleneck is considered when evidence allows.
• Claimed bottleneck has a traceable dependency or capacity relation.

Parameterization

Caller supplies goal schema, dependency graph, capacity metrics, bottleneck definition, and counterfactual test.

Failure and counterexamples

Reject bottlenecks inferred from salience alone or without a relation to the blocked outcome.

Provenance map

• concept: convergence/bottleneck-identification
• concept: deep-insight/critical-path-identification