analogical-discovery

Purpose

Transfer a validated relational structure from a source domain into a target research problem.

Input contract

required: [target_problem, source_domain]
optional: [candidate_sources, transfer_constraints]
constraints: [source and target roles must be explicit]

Execution protocol

Do not perform called SOP operations inline; each loaded SOP owns its contract and thresholds.

1. You MUST load skill abstract-structure to abstract the relational structure.
2. You MUST load skill map-analogy to map source relations to the target.
3. You MUST load skill instantiate-transfer to instantiate and test the transferred mechanism. If the analogy should be expanded across a typed combination space, consider explore-dimensional-space. If biological mechanisms are the relevant source domain, consider biomimetic-transfer. If several source structures must be composed, consider conceptual-blending. If the claimed mapping requires a formal preservation audit, audit-structural-equivalence may be the better next tactic. Deviation: skip source search only when a supplied source is structurally specified; never skip mapping or transfer validation.

Output contract

produces: [abstract_structure, structural_mapping, transfer_candidate]
delta_fields: [findings, hypothesis_updates, uncertainties, decisions, open_questions]

Thresholds and quality gates

• B: every transfer records source/target correspondences, unmapped relations, and a depth check; surface similarity alone is insufficient.

Failure and counterexamples

Reject transfers whose causal/relational roles do not map, whose target constraints are violated, or whose claimed mechanism is only lexical resemblance.

Provenance map

• creative-ideation/cross-domain-discovery, analogical-transfer, design-by-analogy, functional-analogy, analogy-extraction, bridge-validation: resolved where exact v3 node exists; campaign/strategy labels remain concept provenance.
• Status: all six exact names resolved against the v3 source graph.

Preserved source criteria ledger

• Preserve deep structural correspondence and transfer viability; do not collapse to keyword similarity.

Context checkpoint / Delta notes

Append source relations, mapping gaps, transfer assumptions, and validation findings.