research-decision
Iteration Decision Support
Analyze the state of a completed hypothesis experiment and the overall hypothesis graph to recommend the next action.
Context
After each experiment, the researcher makes one of four decisions:
- Continue — hypothesis confirmed, deepen this direction, formulate child hypotheses.
- Pivot — result points to a more promising direction different from the current one. Formulate new hypotheses, change vector.
- Kill — branch is a dead end (refuted, unstable, impractical). Prune the branch in the graph, document the reason.
- Fork — competing approaches discovered that are worth investigating in parallel. Create multiple child hypotheses for simultaneous exploration.
The decision is the researcher's, but this skill provides structured analysis
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