Loop/Prompt Library / Research & writing
🔁 Test competing explanations
Splits facts from guesses, builds several possible explanations, and runs the test most likely to change your mind.
Use it when: A hard question has several plausible answers.
🛑 Stops when: One explanation clearly beats the others, or more digging would not change the decision.
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Investigate [question] using [evidence]. Sort what we know into facts, disputed claims, assumptions, and unknowns. Write at least three truly different explanations, each with what it predicts and what would disprove it. Pick the uncertainty whose answer would change the decision most and run the smallest safe test. Update an evidence log, then have a critic attack the leading explanation. Repeat for at most [5] rounds. Never make up evidence. Finish with the best explanation, confidence, and next test.
Review every change the agent makes before you keep it. Set a budget or round limit — the prompt includes one.
Idea from Forward Future's Loop Library · by Indrajeet Yadav (@indrajeet877). Prompt rewritten in plain English by FixKit AI.
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