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Pressure Test Novelty

  • 1 installs
  • 1 repo stars
  • Updated July 27, 2026
  • evanfollis/supervisor

Evaluates a new idea or structural proposal for fit, reversibility, complexity cost, and value, then recommends adopt, sandbox, defer, or reject.

About

Frames a novel idea as a governance input and makes its upside, complexity cost, and disturbed structures explicit before adoption. A developer uses it when an experiment or structural proposal enters the supervisor idea ledger and needs a disposition.

  • Outputs idea framing, disturbed structures, upside, risk cost, and disposition
  • Recommends adopt, sandbox, defer, or reject with the smallest valid test surface

Pressure Test Novelty by the numbers

  • 1 all-time installs (skills.sh)
  • Ranked #2,476 of 3,282 Productivity & Planning skills by installs in the Skillselion catalog
  • Data as of Jul 28, 2026 (Skillselion catalog sync)
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Last updatedJuly 27, 2026
Repositoryevanfollis/supervisor

What it does

Evaluates a new idea or structural proposal for fit, reversibility, complexity cost, and value, then recommends adopt, sandbox, defer, or reject.

Files

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Pressure-Test Novelty

When to use

Use whenever a novel idea, experiment, or structural proposal enters the supervisor idea ledger or active focus queue.

What it does

  • reframes the idea as a governance input
  • identifies which structures it would disturb
  • makes upside, cost, and risk explicit
  • recommends adopt, sandbox, defer, or reject

Invocation

Use over idea records plus the relevant policy and trace artifacts.

Required output shape:

  • one-sentence idea framing
  • disturbed structures
  • expected upside
  • complexity/risk cost
  • smallest valid test surface
  • disposition

Agent notes

  • Claude Code: push back with intelligent narrowing, not refusal posture.
  • Codex: make the structural cost concrete and artifact-linked.

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