| name | knowledge-acquisition-saturation-detection |
| description | Determine when additional searching yields diminishing returns. Analyzes the latest expansion batch against existing corpus to judge continue/near-saturation/saturated. Used by snowball and systematic-survey. |
| execution | subagent |
| prompt | ./prompt.md |
| input | existing_corpus (string), latest_batch (string) |
| dependencies | {"sops":["spawn-agent"]} |
Saturation Detection
Determine when to stop expanding — diminishing returns analysis.
Execution
Subagent — spawned via subagent-spawning/spawn-agent skill.
Why Subagent
Saturation judgment requires comparing the entire existing corpus against the latest batch of new papers. The comparison is context-intensive and benefits from dedicated processing.
Available SOPs
Optional, no fixed order; the final leaf is always a sop.
| SOP | When to use |
|---|
| spawn-agent | Spawn a customized CC subagent with full MCP tool access. Used by SOPs that declare execution: subagent. |