problem-reframing

Purpose

Change a limiting problem representation through frame escape, perspective rotation, polarity, or abstraction/scope shifts.

Input contract

mode_contracts:
  dominant-frame-escape: &reframing_input
    required: [problem_statement, current_frame]
    optional: [stakeholders, assumptions]
    constraints: [each_reframe_must_state_what_changed_and_what_remains_invariant]
  perspective-shift: *reframing_input
  stakeholder/worldview: *reframing_input
  polarity: *reframing_input
  abstraction-scope: *reframing_input

Execution protocol

Do not perform called SOP operations inline; each loaded SOP owns its contract and thresholds.

1. Select the reframe mode that matches the declared failure in the current frame.
2. Execute the mode-specific operations below without deleting the original frame or its evidence.
3. Record the transformed frame, derived consequences, invariants, and unresolved disagreement. If a reframed question is ready to generate testable explanations, consider formulate-hypotheses. If opposing frames require a structured exchange, adversarial-deliberation may be the better next tactic. Deviation: mode selects a subset, but every omitted operation must be justified by the declared reframe mode and input.

Mode branches

• dominant-frame-escape: identify and challenge the frame governing the current question. You MUST load skill identify-dominant-frame to identify that frame. You MUST load skill generate-provocation to challenge it. You MUST load skill derive-consequences to trace the resulting consequences. You MUST load skill appreciative-reframe to retain generative strengths while escaping the dominant frame.
• perspective-shift: rotate explicit reviewer, practitioner, theorist, time, or novice views. You MUST load skill construct-perspective-set to construct the explicit views. You MUST load skill rotate-perspective to rotate them. You MUST load skill map-disagreement to retain their substantive disagreements.
• stakeholder/worldview: reframe around stakeholder interests and lived assumptions. You MUST load skill construct-perspective-set to construct stakeholder worldviews. You MUST load skill rotate-perspective to apply each worldview. You MUST load skill assess-problem-wickedness to assess conflicts that prevent a single stable frame. You MUST load skill map-disagreement to preserve unresolved interests.
• polarity: expose productive opposition and map its consequences. You MUST load skill map-productive-polarity to map the opposing poles. You MUST load skill derive-consequences to derive their consequences.
• abstraction-scope: move up/down the abstraction or scope ladder and preserve invariants. You MUST load skill adjust-abstraction-scope to move the frame while preserving declared invariants.

Output contract

mode_contracts:
  dominant-frame-escape:
    produces: [dominant_frame, reframe_set, consequence_map]
    delta_fields: [findings, hypothesis_updates, assumption_updates, decisions, open_questions, recommended_jumps]
  perspective-shift:
    produces: [reframe_set, perspective_map, consequence_map]
    delta_fields: [findings, hypothesis_updates, assumption_updates, decisions, open_questions, recommended_jumps]
  stakeholder/worldview:
    produces: [reframe_set, perspective_map]
    delta_fields: [findings, hypothesis_updates, assumption_updates, decisions, open_questions, recommended_jumps]
  polarity:
    produces: [reframe_set, consequence_map, polarity_map]
    delta_fields: [findings, hypothesis_updates, assumption_updates, decisions, open_questions, recommended_jumps]
  abstraction-scope:
    produces: [dominant_frame, reframe_set]
    delta_fields: [findings, hypothesis_updates, assumption_updates, decisions, open_questions, recommended_jumps]

Thresholds and quality gates

• B: at least two materially distinct frames are recorded; invariants, changed assumptions, and downstream consequences are explicit.

Failure and counterexamples

Reject cosmetic wording changes, perspective lists without consequence changes, and reframes that erase the original decision target.

Provenance map

• problem-reformulation, dominant-idea-escape, multi-perspective-reframing, dialectical-reformulation, question-reformulation, creative-ideation/perspective-forcing, six-thinking-hats, role-storming, perspective-rotation, synectics/personal-analogy, Pass8/force-perspective-shift: resolved/concept per exact lookup.
• Status: problem-reformulation, dominant-idea-escape, multi-perspective-reframing, dialectical-reformulation, question-reformulation, creative-ideation/perspective-forcing, synectics/personal-analogy resolved; six-thinking-hats, role-storming, perspective-rotation, Pass8/force-perspective-shift concept.

Preserved source criteria ledger

• Preserve Six Hats, synectics/personal analogy, dialectical polarity, dominant-frame escape, and abstraction/scope shifts.

Context checkpoint / Delta notes

Append frame changes, perspective consequences, polarity tensions, and selected reframe.