map-productive-polarity git:20260923.cbc38aaA

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name: map-productive-polarity
description: "Map a persistent two-pole tension where both poles contain value: upsides/downsides of over-focusing each pole, warning signs, and practices that manage the polarity rather than falsely resolving it."
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# map-productive-polarity
## Purpose
Map a persistent two-pole tension where both poles contain value and require managed balance.
## Input contract
```yaml
required: [polarity_statement, pole_a, pole_b]
optional: [stakeholder_views, warning_signs, current_practices]
constraints: [each pole must have a valued upside and a harmful overuse pattern]
```
## Procedure
1. State the upside and downside of over-focusing each pole.
2. Identify warning signs that the system has over-corrected toward either pole.
3. Map practices that manage the polarity without falsely resolving it.

If the polarity map reveals a tension sustained by implicit premises, consider `surface-assumptions` as the next tactic.

## Output contract
```yaml
produces: [polarity_map, upside_downside_register, warning_signs, management_practices]
delta_fields: [findings, assumption_updates, uncertainties, decisions]
```
## Quality gates
- Both poles remain legitimate; management practices are conditional and observable.
## Failure and counterexamples
Reject a polarity map that treats one pole as the correct answer or collapses tension into a compromise slogan.
## Provenance map
- `deep-insight/polarity-mapping`: resolved.
- `tension-mining`: resolved.