assumption-destruction
The assumption-destruction skill systematically challenges fundamental beliefs and conventional practices through five complementary strategies: axiom negation, reverse brainstorming, worst-method inversion, anti-benchmark analysis, and sacred-cow hunting. Use this skill when seeking innovative solutions to entrenched problems, questioning industry best practices, or needing to break through conventional thinking constraints.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yogsoth-ai/de-anthropocentric-research-engine /tmp/assumption-destruction && cp -r /tmp/assumption-destruction/skills/assumption-destruction ~/.claude/skills/assumption-destructionSKILL.md
# Assumption Destruction Open new solution spaces by negating, reversing, and challenging fundamental assumptions. ## Strategy Routing | Strategy | Signal Keywords | |----------|----------------| | axiom-negation | negate, suspend, PO, de Bono, what if not, challenge axiom | | reverse-brainstorming | worse, reverse, anti-solution, how to fail, sabotage | | worst-method-inversion | worst possible, terrible solution, invert bad, flip failure | | anti-benchmark | best practice, industry standard, benchmark, conventional wisdom | | sacred-cow-hunting | unquestioned, sacred cow, taboo, never challenged, dogma | ## Manifest ### Strategies | Strategy | Description | |----------|-------------| | axiom-negation | Identify and suspend fundamental assumptions via de Bono PO | | reverse-brainstorming | How to make it worse? → reverse for solutions | | worst-method-inversion | Design worst possible solution → extract insights → invert | | anti-benchmark | Challenge industry best practices' hidden assumptions | | sacred-cow-hunting | Find and challenge domain's unquestioned beliefs | ### Tactics | Tactic | Description | |--------|-------------| | provocation-generation | Generate PO provocations and extract constructive movement (shared) | | assumption-enumeration | Surface, perturb, and prioritize assumptions by disruption potential | | inversion-protocol | Reverse statements → extract insights → build constructive alternatives | ### SOPs | SOP | Description | |-----|-------------| | assumption-perturbation | Perturb each assumption, observe system response | | reversal-generation | Systematically reverse positive statements | | worst-case-design | Design the worst possible solution | | inversion-extraction | Extract constructive insights from worst solutions | | benchmark-challenge | Identify and negate benchmark assumptions | | sacred-cow-identification | Find domain's unquestioned beliefs | | constructive-rebellion | Build constructive alternatives from destructive negation | | destruction-synthesis | Synthesize all assumption destruction outputs | ## Budget Table | Strategy | web-search | web-research | paper-overview | paper-search | paper-research | |----------|-----------|-------------|---------------|-------------|---------------| | axiom-negation | 20 | 5 | 20 | 12 | 5 | | reverse-brainstorming | 15 | 5 | 15 | 10 | 3 | | worst-method-inversion | 15 | 5 | 15 | 10 | 3 | | anti-benchmark | 25 | 10 | 25 | 15 | 5 | | sacred-cow-hunting | 30 | 10 | 25 | 15 | 8 | ## MCP Tools | Tool | Server | Purpose | |------|--------|---------| | brave_web_search | brave-search | General web search for methods and examples | | brave_llm_context | brave-search | Deep content extraction from web pages | | apify/rag-web-browser | apify | Full page scraping for detailed content | | get_paper_content | alphaxiv | Read academic paper content | | discover_papers | alphaxiv | Find relevant research papers | | relevanceSearch | semantic-scholar | Search academic literature | | paper | semantic-scholar | Get paper details | | citations | semantic-scholar | Trace citation networks | ## Context Management - Each strategy tracks its own budget via State Ledger - Strategies MUST NOT exceed allocated budget - Campaign monitors cumulative spend across all strategies - If a strategy exhausts budget before meeting yield, escalate to campaign level for reallocation - Prefer paper-overview over paper-research for initial exploration (lower cost) ## Available Tactics | Tactic | Role | |--------|------| | provocation-generation | Generate PO provocations and extract movement (shared) | | assumption-enumeration | Surface and prioritize assumptions by disruption potential | | inversion-protocol | Reverse → extract → build constructive alternatives | ## Available SOPs | SOP | Role | |-----|------| | assumption-perturbation | Perturb assumptions and observe system response | | reversal-generation | Systematically reverse positive statements | | worst-case-design | Design worst possible solution | | inversion-extraction | Extract constructive insights from inversions | | benchmark-challenge | Negate benchmark assumptions | | sacred-cow-identification | Find unquestioned beliefs | | constructive-rebellion | Build alternatives from negation | | destruction-synthesis | Final synthesis of all outputs |
Experiment-specific - summarize the DARE executor's research design into a clean research_result report, forced to write back into the spec file produced by formated-specs.
Experiment-specific - replaces writing-specs, emits DARE's 4-layer call plan as a clean research_graph schema. Last step forces load formated-result.
loss-1 judge - read a sample's full dialogue and decide whether the user simulator semantically enacted its Policy Card. check-blind.
loss-2 judge - pairwise quality comparison across the n rungs within one topic; decide monotonicity and endpoint separation. check-blind, D1-D5 only.
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