Use when starting technical work requiring structured approach - writing tests before code (TDD), planning data...
Development
Code generation, debugging, testing, and development workflows
Use when designing visual interfaces, data visualizations, educational content, or presentations and need to ensure...
Use when testing plans or decisions for blind spots, need adversarial review before launch, validating strategy...
Use when debates are trapped in false dichotomies, polarized positions need charitable interpretation, tradeoffs are...
Use when validating product assumptions before building, discovering unmet user needs, understanding customer...
Use to stress-test predictions by assuming they failed and working backward to identify why. Invoke when confidence...
Use when exploring alternative scenarios, testing assumptions through "what if" questions, understanding causal...
Use when organizing content for digital products, designing navigation systems, restructuring information...
Use when setting product North Star metrics, decomposing high-level business metrics into actionable sub-metrics and...
Use when you have implemented an equivariant model and need to verify it correctly respects the intended symmetries....
Use when need systematic innovation through comprehensive solution space exploration, resolving technical...
Use when managing multiple initiatives across time horizons (now/next/later, H1/H2/H3), balancing risk vs return...
Use when ranking backlogs, deciding what to do first based on effort vs impact (quick wins vs big bets),...
Use when testing ideas cheaply before building (pretotyping with fake doors, concierge MVPs, paper prototypes) to...
Use when starting a forecast to establish a statistical baseline (base rate) before analyzing specifics. Invoke when...
Use when verifying claims before decisions, fact-checking statements against sources, conducting due diligence on...
Use when planning with fixed deadline or target outcome, working backward from future goal to present, defining...
Use when stakeholders have conflicting priorities and need alignment, suspect decision blind spots from single...
Use to detect and remove cognitive biases from reasoning. Invoke when prediction feels emotional, stuck at 50/50, or...
Use when you've identified candidate symmetries and need to map them to mathematical groups for architecture design....
Use when you need to empirically test whether hypothesized symmetries actually hold in your data or model. Invoke...
Use when synthesizing information from multiple sources (literature review, stakeholder feedback, research findings,...
Use when problems involve interconnected components with feedback loops (reinforcing or balancing), delays, or...
Guide users writing new pieces, revising drafts, planning structure, improving organization, making messages...