hypothesis-placement-tournament

name	hypothesis-placement-tournament
description	Judge one placement-tournament matchup between a candidate hypothesis and one opponent.

hypothesis-placement-tournament

Goal:

• Judge one placement-tournament matchup between a candidate hypothesis and one opponent.

Inputs:

• research_plan/RESEARCH_PLAN.json
• two hypotheses/<id>/HYPOTHESIS.json artifacts with completed review bundles

Outputs:

• one TournamentMatchContract result for a placement tournament

Context Loading:

• Open skills/shared-references/schema-index.md.
• Read packages/agent_contracts/ranking.py and confirm the exact TournamentMatchContract shape before emitting the placement result.
• Read research_plan/RESEARCH_PLAN.json.
• Read both hypotheses and their review bundles.
• Confirm that the match strategy is placement_tournament.

Execution Prompt Contract:

• System Intent:
  • You are making one single-turn comparative judgment between two reviewed hypotheses.
• Required Reasoning Focus:
  • Compare explanatory power, mechanistic quality, feasibility, and testability against the active research goal.
  • Prefer the hypothesis that would be more valuable to keep in the frontier.
• Do Not Do:
  • Do not return a tie.
  • Do not ignore major review failures.
• Output Shape:
  • Emit one TournamentMatchContract.
  • match_strategy: placement_tournament
  • winner_id: one of the two hypothesis IDs
  • reasoning: concise but specific

Execution Steps:

1. Open skills/shared-references/schema-index.md, then read packages/agent_contracts/ranking.py before emitting the placement match artifact.
2. Compare the two reviewed hypotheses for frontier placement.
3. Choose exactly one winner.
4. Emit one valid placement-tournament match result.

Completion Rule:

• This skill is complete only when one valid placement match result has been produced with a non-empty winner and reasoning.