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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.

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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

SignalStrategy
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.

StrategyWhen to use
assumption-auditSurface all assumptions, classify by vulnerability (load-bearing × likely-false), validate causal logic. Focus on dangerous assumptions — high load-bearing + non-explicit.
question-reformulationReframe research questions using abstraction laddering, HMW formulation, and Socratic probing. Find the most productive level and framing for investigation.
root-cause-drillingDrill from surface symptoms to root causes via 5 Whys, Ishikawa decomposition, and Current Reality Trees. Validates each causal link with literature evidence.
stakeholder-mappingMap all affected parties using CSH 12-question framework, identify jobs-to-be-done, classify by salience. Reveals whose perspective is systematically excluded.
tension-miningIdentify 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.

SOPWhen to use
context-checkpointAppend 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-initCreate 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.