Skill

Sharpen the candidate thesis into an ownable, arguable claim

Packaged know-how that tells an agent how to do a job well.

You might say…

I believe this but I can't say it in a way that makes clear what's actually at stake.

What it does

Takes a candidate thesis and sharpens it into a genuinely arguable, ownable position by naming who would disagree, what makes it distinct from conventional wisdom, and how to state it so a reasonable person could push back.

Trigger: Use after a through-line has formed but before stress-testing or naming — when the claim exists but is still too fuzzy to defend or publish.

I/O: Candidate thesis → sharpened ownable claim with named dissenters, specific distance from adjacent positions, and arguable formulation

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