Tradeoff frame
Name the real trade-off behind a decision, who pays on each side, and the conditions under which each choice is right.
The prompt
Frame the trade-off in this decision. Decision: WHAT. The positions people are taking: SUMMARISE THEM. Five parts. The trade-off, in one sentence, stated as two good things that cannot both be maximised. If your sentence has a villain in it, you have not found the trade-off yet. Who bears each cost. For each side, which group pays, in what currency: time, money, risk, autonomy, credibility, workload. Disagreements usually survive because the two sides are not paying with the same thing. When each side is right. The conditions under which choosing A is correct, and the conditions under which choosing B is. Concrete conditions, the kind you could check. Which conditions hold here. Only from what I told you. Where I have not told you, say what to check rather than filling it in. Is it a false choice. Whether a third option gets most of both, and what it would cost. Say plainly if there is not one, because an invented third option is how a real trade-off gets buried. Take no side.
How to use it
Run this in Chat. It is a thinking tool, not a deliverable.
Use when a discussion keeps going in circles because both sides are right about different things.
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
The trade-off named as two goods in tension, who bears each cost, the conditions favouring each side, and any false choice.
What it writes
Nothing. This one only answers.
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