insight

name	insight
description	Insight Campaign — deep root-cause analysis of why research gaps persist. 5 strategies (root-cause-drilling, stakeholder-mapping, tension-mining, question-reformulation, assumption-audit), 4 tactics, 13 subagent SOPs.
execution	campaign
dependencies	{"strategies":["assumption-audit","question-reformulation","root-cause-drilling","stakeholder-mapping","tension-mining"],"sops":["context-checkpoint","context-init"]}

Insight

Understand WHY gaps persist — root causes, stakeholders, tensions, and hidden assumptions.

Design Philosophy

This campaign is a strategy book — CC reads, internalizes, and autonomously constructs an approach. The SKILL.md files are textbooks, not scripts. CC decides execution order, depth, and iteration based on research context.

Strategy Routing

Signal	Strategy
why it exists, root cause, 5 Whys, fishbone diagram, causal tree	→ root-cause-drilling
who is affected, stakeholders, JTBD, CSH 12 questions	→ stakeholder-mapping
opposing forces, tensions, polarities, evaporating cloud	→ tension-mining
how to frame the problem, HMW, abstraction ladder, Socratic	→ question-reformulation
hidden assumptions, fragility, premise audit, red team	→ assumption-audit

Available Tactics

• causal-tree-building — logical causal tree construction
• dialectical-synthesis — thesis-antithesis-synthesis cycle
• boundary-unfolding — expose hidden system boundaries
• assumption-stress-test — systematic assumption stress testing

Available SOPs

Import (5): web-search, web-research, paper-overview, paper-search, paper-research

Subagent (13): five-whys-drilling, ishikawa-decomposition, current-reality-tree, csh-12-question, jtbd-mapping, salience-classification, evaporating-cloud, polarity-mapping, abstraction-laddering, hmw-formulation, socratic-probing, abp-vulnerability-classification, clr-validation

Shared (2): evidence-synthesis, assumption-surfacing

Context Management

context-checkpoint after each strategy completes. Accumulated state persists across strategies within a campaign run.

Available Strategies

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

Strategy	When to use
assumption-audit	Surface all assumptions, classify by vulnerability (load-bearing × likely-false), validate causal logic. Focus on dangerous assumptions — high load-bearing + non-explicit.
question-reformulation	Reframe research questions using abstraction laddering, HMW formulation, and Socratic probing. Find the most productive level and framing for investigation.
root-cause-drilling	Drill from surface symptoms to root causes via 5 Whys, Ishikawa decomposition, and Current Reality Trees. Validates each causal link with literature evidence.
stakeholder-mapping	Map all affected parties using CSH 12-question framework, identify jobs-to-be-done, classify by salience. Reveals whose perspective is systematically excluded.
tension-mining	Identify opposing forces that keep gaps open. Uses evaporating cloud to expose hidden assumptions behind conflicts and polarity mapping for unresolvable tensions.

Available SOPs

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

SOP	When to use
context-checkpoint	Append research process and results to the current Phase's context file. Each append MUST contain >=500 lines of markdown covering both process and results. Use this skill at plan-designated checkpoint points — typically after each strategy completes or at key decision nodes within a research Phase.
context-init	Create a new context file for a research Phase. Called once at Phase start to initialize the file that subsequent context-checkpoint calls will append to. Use this skill whenever a new research Phase begins and a fresh context file is needed.