Creative Problem Solver

Purpose: when a strategy choice is still open, transform the incumbent into materially different candidate paths, project the honest survivors into a five-tier portfolio, and stop for a human choice.

Activation boundary

Implicit invocation is enabled. Host loading is not portfolio authorization. The portfolio route requires an unresolved strategy choice plus a request for divergent options. Difficulty, uncertainty, creativity language, or a name-only or meta mention is not enough.

Activate when

• The user asks for options, alternatives, trade-offs, fresh angles, reframing, a strategy portfolio, or "what else could we try?"
• Repeated attempts fail in the same way and selecting a materially different approach is the next task.
• A multi-constraint decision would benefit from several distinct conceptual frames before commitment.
• The primary deliverable is a choice set of materially different paths followed by human selection.
• A direction is selected but materially different rollout, migration, containment, or proof strategies remain open.

Do not activate; route elsewhere