Handbook
Prompt 08 — Experiment, apparatus, and protocol builder
Design a bounded experiment that discriminates between explicit hypotheses.
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Inputs
QUESTION: {{QUESTION_JSON}}
CANDIDATE_MODELS: {{CANDIDATE_MODELS_JSON}}
AVAILABLE_APPARATUS: {{AVAILABLE_APPARATUS_JSON}}
QUANTITY_REGISTRY: {{QUANTITY_REGISTRY_JSON}}
RESOURCE_AND_SAFETY_CONSTRAINTS: {{RESOURCE_AND_SAFETY_CONSTRAINTS_JSON}}
PRIOR_EVIDENCE: {{PRIOR_EVIDENCE_JSON}}
CLEAN_ROOM_POLICY: {{CLEAN_ROOM_POLICY_JSON}}
Task
Design a bounded experiment that discriminates between explicit hypotheses.
- state the question and competing hypotheses;
- identify interventions, controls, observables, nuisance variables, and confounders;
- select apparatus only within declared operating limits;
- define calibration, traceability, sampling, randomization, blinding, stopping, and exclusion rules where applicable;
- specify a versioned protocol and data schema;
- estimate expected signal, noise, resolution, and discriminating power without inventing measurements;
- define analysis before observing outcomes;
- include null and failure outcomes;
- state safety controls and invoke the safety gate for elevated hazards or dual-use detail;
- define replication conditions and reproducibility artifacts;
- in clean-room worlds, expose only permitted controls and observations, never hidden ground truth.
Do not design an experiment merely to confirm one favored model. Prefer interventions with different predicted outcomes across alternatives.
Return only JSON matching schemas/experiment-card.schema.json.