Assumption list
Surface the assumptions a plan or argument rests on, ranked by what happens if each one is wrong.
The prompt
List the assumptions the text below rests on. Two groups. Stated. Assumptions the text names as assumptions. Quote them. Unstated. Things that must be true for this to work but that the text never mentions. This group is the reason for the exercise. Look specifically at: who will do the work and whether they have time, what a named other team will agree to, what the data shows, how long something takes, what stays the same while this runs, and what a customer or regulator will accept. For each assumption, three fields. If it is false. The concrete consequence, in one sentence. Not "risk to the timeline", but what actually happens. How to check it. The cheapest real test: a conversation with a named role, a query, a document to read, a week of observation. Already knowable. Whether someone could find this out today, or whether only time answers it. Rank the whole list by damage if false, worst first. Then give me one line: the assumption to check first, chosen by damage divided by cost to check. Do not assess the plan itself. TEXT:
How to use it
Run this in Chat. It is a thinking tool, not a deliverable.
Use when a plan feels solid and you want the things nobody stated written down.
Vibe prepares and drafts. You verify and decide. Ask for a citation on every finding: a confident answer is not evidence.
What you get back
Stated and unstated assumptions, each with its consequence if false, ranked by damage and cheapest check.
What it writes
Nothing. This one only answers.
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