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Break through stagnation with lateral thinking personas — single or multi-persona debate
Passed 4 of 10 test cases with the skill, and 2 of 10 without it.
and 10 more in the full report
8 fixed1 passed either way10 still failing4 broke
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One of 8 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.
ooo lateral
| Checked | Without skill | With skill |
|---|---|---|
| The response asks a question requesting what the user is stuck on and what has been tried. | Missed | Passed |
| The response refrains from calling the lateral thinking tool with empty context fields. | Passed | Passed |
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Break through stagnation with lateral thinking personas. Two modes:
ooo lateral # debate (default) — all 5 lateral personas
ooo lateral <persona> # solo — single persona
ooo lateral debate <p1> <p2> ... # debate with explicit members
ooo lateral @<preset> # debate with preset (Phase 1: only @all = 5 personas)
Trigger keywords: "I'm stuck", "think sideways", "ooo lateral", "/ouroboros:unstuck".
The lateral pool is stateless mindset personas only — five reframing lenses. Stateful roles (evaluator, qa-judge, ontologist, socratic-interviewer, etc.) are NOT mixed into this pool; they have their own SKILLs.
| Persona | Style | When to Use |
|---|---|---|
| hacker | "Make it work first, elegance later" | When overthinking blocks progress |
| researcher | "What information are we missing?" | When the problem is unclear |
| simplifier | "Cut scope, return to MVP" | When complexity is overwhelming |
| architect | "Restructure the approach entirely" | When the current design is wrong |
| contrarian | "What if we're solving the wrong problem?" | When assumptions need challenging |
Direct user invocation — ooo lateral … from the prompt.
Autonomous chain from another SKILL — when you (the main session) are operating in another SKILL's persona (e.g., socratic-interviewer during ooo interview, or any agent role) and judge that the current question requires multi-perspective deliberation, you MAY invoke this SKILL on your own. No forced trigger; this is your self-assessment. After the debate, summarize the options for the user, return to the original SKILL's flow, and let the user decide. The user will see the sub-agent fan-out as it happens — that visibility is the point.
Parse the user's argument string (or your autonomous-chain intent) into a mode (solo / debate):
test cases passed, vs 2 / 10 without
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