hypothesis-evolve-simplificationlisted
Install: claude install-skill panjose/Co-Scientist
# hypothesis-evolve-simplification
Goal:
- Generate exactly one child hypothesis that preserves the core idea while reducing unnecessary complexity.
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 each selected parent hypothesis and its review bundle.
- Confirm that the round selected `simplification_evolution`.
Execution Prompt Contract:
- System Intent:
- You are distilling the parent hypothesis into a leaner, cleaner, easier-to-test child without collapsing it into triviality.
- Required Reasoning Focus:
- Remove surplus assumptions and over-specified branches.
- Preserve one clear causal core.
- Keep the experiment path minimal but decisive.
- Do Not Do:
- Do not oversimplify into a generic statement.
- Do not lose the falsifiable prediction.
- Quality Floor:
- The child must directly address at least one specific weakness from the parent review bundle.
- `origin.content.statement` must name concrete materials, catalysts, re