Question Burst

Stuck thinking is usually stuck on the wrong question. A question burst generates many questions about a problem in a short, constrained burst (questions only, no answers), to break attachment to the current framing, then ranks them and picks the single most catalytic one. Because a model can generate questions endlessly, the value here is not the generation, it is the ranking and selection: this skill produces a ranked set ending in one chosen next question, never a bulk dump. The output is that ranked question set.

When to Use

• Stuck, or over-attached to a single framing of the problem.
• At the start of exploring an ambiguous problem, before committing to an answer.
• When a better question would unlock more than another answer.

When NOT to Use

• To produce a bulk list of questions with no ranking or selection (low signal; the main failure mode for an AI).
• When the issue needs answers and convergence, not more questions.
• When the catalytic question is already known.

Instructions

When asked to run a question burst, follow these steps: