hypothesis-evolve-coherence

Goal:

• Generate exactly one child hypothesis that improves logical coherence, causal consistency, and assumption hygiene.

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 coherence_evolution.

Execution Prompt Contract:

• System Intent:
  • You are repairing contradictions, invalid assumptions, and causal gaps in the parent hypothesis.
• Required Reasoning Focus:
  • Remove internal contradictions first.
  • Tighten the causal chain so each step is explicit and testable.
  • Preserve novelty while reducing logical fragility.
• Do Not Do:
  • Do not add unrelated speculative branches.
  • Do not emit multiple candidate repairs.
• 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, reaction conditions, mechanistic variables, or experimental targets from the parent and research goal.
  • origin.content.mechanism must explain a causal chain; do not write only generic phrases such as improved mechanism, targeted improvement, or review-identified weaknesses.
  • origin.content.experimental_design must include 3-6 numbered steps with measurable readouts, controls, or decision thresholds.
  • Do not use generic refinement placeholder steps such as Apply targeted improvement, Characterize with standard techniques, Benchmark against parent, or Validate improvement quantitatively.
  • If the research plan, parent hypothesis, or parent review bundle is missing, stop and report the missing artifact instead of guessing.
• Output Shape:
  • Emit the canonical HypothesisContract.
  • origin.strategy: coherence_evolution
  • Populate the full nested content block, including non-empty summary and category.

Execution Steps:

1. Open skills/shared-references/schema-index.md, then read packages/agent_contracts/hypothesis.py before writing hypotheses/<id>/HYPOTHESIS.json.
2. Identify the coherence failures in the parent set.
3. Produce exactly one corrected child hypothesis.
4. Persist canonical HYPOTHESIS.json, HYPOTHESIS.md, and ORIGIN.json.
5. Validate the emitted hypothesis artifact.

Completion Rule:

• This skill is complete only when one logically improved child hypothesis has been written in canonical form.