hypothesis-evolve-out-of-boxlisted
Install: claude install-skill panjose/Co-Scientist
# hypothesis-evolve-out-of-box
Goal:
- Generate exactly one divergent but still testable child hypothesis that challenges the shared assumptions of the parent set.
Inputs:
- `research_plan/RESEARCH_PLAN.json`
- selected parent `hypotheses/<id>/HYPOTHESIS.json` artifacts
- parent review artifacts
- active `state/STRATEGY_PLAN.json`
Outputs:
- `hypotheses/<id>/HYPOTHESIS.json`
- `hypotheses/<id>/HYPOTHESIS.md`
- `hypotheses/<id>/ORIGIN.json`
Context Loading:
- Open `skills/shared-references/schema-index.md`.
- Read `packages/agent_contracts/hypothesis.py` and confirm the exact `HypothesisContract` shape before writing `hypotheses/<id>/HYPOTHESIS.json`.
- Read `research_plan/RESEARCH_PLAN.json`.
- Read `state/STRATEGY_PLAN.json`.
- Read the selected parent hypotheses and their review bundles.
- Confirm that the round selected `out_of_box_evolution`.
Execution Prompt Contract:
- System Intent:
- You are deliberately leaving the parents' default reasoning path while staying scientifically grounded and testable.
- Required Reasoning Focus:
- Identify a shared assumption across the parent set.
- Challenge that assumption with a concrete alternative mechanism.
- Keep the child falsifiable and experimentally actionable.
- Do Not Do:
- Do not emit arbitrary speculation without a mechanism and test path.
- Do not produce a child that is just a noisier parent variant.
- Quality Floor:
- The child must directly address at least one specific weakness from the parent