non-compensatory-screening

name	non-compensatory-screening
description	Eliminate non-qualifying candidates using conjunctive rules, dominance filtering, lexicographic ordering, or veto thresholds.
dependencies	{"tactics":["screening-then-scoring"],"sops":["conjunctive-filter","criterion-definition","dominance-check","threshold-setting"]}

Non-Compensatory Screening

Purpose: Eliminate non-qualifying alternatives using non-compensatory rules — failure on any critical criterion results in elimination, with no compensation from high scores on other criteria.

When to use:

• Hard constraints or safety baselines exist
• Go/no-go decisions are needed
• Need to reduce candidate set before fine-grained scoring
• Certain criteria have veto power

Budget

Base SOP	Target	±10% Range
criterion-definition	3-5 screening criteria	2-6
threshold-setting	1 threshold set	1
conjunctive-filter	1 pass/fail list	1
dominance-check	1 dominance report	1

State Ledger

strategy: non-compensatory-screening
status: pending
criteria_defined: false
thresholds_set: false
filtered: false
dominance_checked: false
survivors: []
eliminated: []

Available Tactics

• screening-then-scoring — Score survivors after screening

Available SOPs

Import

• criterion-definition
• threshold-setting
• conjunctive-filter
• dominance-check

Subagent

• (none — screening is self-contained)

Execution Guidance

1. Identify hard constraint criteria (safety, compliance, budget, etc.)
2. Invoke threshold-setting to define minimum thresholds for each criterion
3. Invoke conjunctive-filter to execute elimination
4. Optional: invoke dominance-check for further refinement
5. Output survivor list for subsequent strategies

Output Format

## Screening Results

**Screening Rule:** Conjunctive rule (all criteria must be met)
**Initial Candidates:** [N]
**Survivors:** [M]
**Eliminated:** [N-M]

### Elimination Details
| Alternative | Failed Criterion | Actual Value | Threshold |
|-------------|-----------------|--------------|-----------|

### Surviving Alternatives
[List, available for subsequent fine-grained scoring]

Available Tactics

Optional, no fixed order; the final leaf is always a sop.

Tactic	When to use
screening-then-scoring	First eliminate non-qualifying candidates with non-compensatory rules, then score survivors with full MCDA methods.

Available SOPs

Optional, no fixed order; the final leaf is always a sop.

SOP	When to use
conjunctive-filter	Apply conjunctive screening rules to eliminate candidates that fail any threshold.
criterion-definition	Extract evaluation criteria from research goals and candidate alternatives.
dominance-check	Identify dominated and non-dominated alternatives in a score matrix using Pareto dominance.
threshold-setting	Define minimum acceptable thresholds for each criterion based on context and constraints.