crystallize-north-star · diff
git:20260615.7a62936 to git:20260923.cbc38aa
31 added, 22 removed. Audit A to A.
---
name: crystallize-north-star
- description: 'Fuse the GoalTree root node and user motivation into a single crystallized
- North Star statement. Format: ''[verb] [specific goal], through [method/path], solving
- [what problem], ultimately [what impact]''. Quality checks: specific? ambitious?
- achievable?'
- execution: dialogue
+ description: "Compress the goal structure and intentionality into a specific, ambitious, achievable one-sentence research North Star."
---
- # Crystallize North Star
+ # crystallize-north-star
- Produce the one-sentence North Star that captures the user's research direction.
+ ## Purpose
- ## Execution
+ Compress a validated goal structure into one specific, ambitious, achievable research North Star.
- Dialogue — inline, CC synthesizes and presents.
+ ## Input contract
- ## Format
+ ```yaml
+ required: [goal_tree, constraints, intended_effect]
+ optional: [feasibility_annotations, actor_profile, evidence_context]
+ constraints: [the statement must preserve the declared outcome and limiting constraints]
+ ```
- "[verb] [specific goal], through [method/path], solving [what problem], ultimately [what impact]"
+ ## Procedure
- ## Quality Checks Before Presenting
+ 1. Identify the highest-value outcome and the mechanism or capability it should change.
+ 2. Remove branch detail that does not distinguish the intended direction.
+ 3. Draft one sentence with outcome, scope, and constraint boundaries.
+ 4. Check traceability back to the goal tree and record unresolved tension.
- - **Specific**: not vague or generic
- - **Ambitious**: worth pursuing at a top venue
- - **Achievable**: within user's capabilities + mitigations
+ ## Output contract
- ## Process
+ ```yaml
+ produces: [north_star_statement, research_brief, traceability_map, unresolved_tensions]
+ delta_fields: [findings, hypothesis_updates, decisions, uncertainties, open_questions]
+ ```
- 1. Draft the North Star based on all accumulated context
- 2. Self-check against quality criteria
- 3. Present to user
- 4. Iterate if needed
+ ## Quality gates
- ## Output
+ - The statement is testable and scoped.
+ - Every essential term traces to a goal or constraint.
- Confirmed North Star statement.
+ ## Failure and counterexamples
+
+ Do not turn a slogan into a North Star or omit constraints merely to make the sentence aspirational.
+
+ ## Provenance map
+
+ - `resolved: north-star-crystallization-crystallize-north-star`
+