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apply-separation-principle
Resolve a physical contradiction by separating conflicting requirements in time, space, scale, condition, or system level.
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- Requirements & planning
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- Apache-2.0
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- Sep 29, 2026
skills/apply-separation-principle/SKILL.md
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Purpose
Resolve a physical contradiction by separating conflicting requirements in time, space, scale, condition, or system level.
Input contract
required: [contradiction, conflicting_requirements]
optional: [system_boundary, operating_conditions]
constraints: [requirements must be stated as mutually conflicting outcomes]
Procedure
- State the useful and harmful effects that cannot coexist (
conflicting_requirements). - Test separation in time, space, scale, condition, and system level.
- Select the separation that removes the conflict and state its operating condition.
Output contract
produces: [separation_candidates, selected_principle, operating_condition]
delta_fields: [findings, hypothesis_updates, decisions, uncertainties]
Quality gates
- Each candidate names the separated dimension and preserves the useful effect while removing the harmful one.
Failure and counterexamples
Do not call parameter tuning a separation when both requirements still occur under the same condition.
Provenance map
triz/separation-principles: concept (the exact pool entry is singularseparation-principle; near-name substitution is forbidden).
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