/map-productive-polarity

name: map-productive-polarity
description: "Map a persistent two-pole tension where both poles contain value: upsides/downsides of over-focusing each pole, warning signs, and practices that manage the polarity rather than falsely resolving it."

map-productive-polarity

Purpose

Map a persistent two-pole tension where both poles contain value and require managed balance.

Input contract

required: [polarity_statement, pole_a, pole_b]
optional: [stakeholder_views, warning_signs, current_practices]
constraints: [each pole must have a valued upside and a harmful overuse pattern]

Procedure

1. State the upside and downside of over-focusing each pole. 2. Identify warning signs that the system has over-corrected toward either pole. 3. Map practices that manage the polarity without falsely resolving it.

If the polarity map reveals a tension sustained by implicit premises, consider `surface-assumptions` as the next tactic.

Output contract

produces: [polarity_map, upside_downside_register, warning_signs, management_practices]
delta_fields: [findings, assumption_updates, uncertainties, decisions]

Quality gates

• Both poles remain legitimate; management practices are conditional and observable.

Failure and counterexamples

Reject a polarity map that treats one pole as the correct answer or collapses tension into a compromise slogan.

Provenance map

• `deep-insight/polarity-mapping`: resolved.
• `tension-mining`: resolved.