Handbook
LCDL overlay: General Creativity Intelligence
Design and test-contract bundle; no runtime implementation or operational certification is claimed. The manifest, schemas, validators, test suite, and task identities are complete enough for repository-native…
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Design and test-contract bundle; no runtime implementation or operational certification is claimed. The manifest, schemas, validators, test suite, and task identities are complete enough for repository-native implementation; no placeholder task code is included.
Capability contracts
| Capability ID | Candidate task ID | Required output artifacts | Release validators |
|---|---|---|---|
capability.general.creativity.construct_creative_brief |
intelligence_creativity_construct_creative_brief_v1 |
artifact.general.creativity.creative_brief |
validator.general.creativity.01_semantic_near_duplicate_and_idea_family_diversity_audit, validator.general.creativity.02_creative_brief_requirement_and_prohibited_outcome_coverage, validator.general.creativity.03_influence_attribution_license_and_originality_claim_boundary |
capability.general.creativity.expand_possibility_space |
intelligence_creativity_expand_possibility_space_v1 |
artifact.general.creativity.idea_portfolio |
validator.general.creativity.01_semantic_near_duplicate_and_idea_family_diversity_audit, validator.general.creativity.02_creative_brief_requirement_and_prohibited_outcome_coverage, validator.general.creativity.03_influence_attribution_license_and_originality_claim_boundary |
capability.general.creativity.transfer_analogies |
intelligence_creativity_transfer_analogies_v1 |
artifact.general.creativity.analogy_transfer_map |
validator.general.creativity.01_semantic_near_duplicate_and_idea_family_diversity_audit, validator.general.creativity.02_creative_brief_requirement_and_prohibited_outcome_coverage, validator.general.creativity.03_influence_attribution_license_and_originality_claim_boundary |
capability.general.creativity.recombine_elements |
intelligence_creativity_recombine_elements_v1 |
artifact.general.creativity.idea_family_map |
validator.general.creativity.01_semantic_near_duplicate_and_idea_family_diversity_audit, validator.general.creativity.02_creative_brief_requirement_and_prohibited_outcome_coverage, validator.general.creativity.03_influence_attribution_license_and_originality_claim_boundary |
capability.general.creativity.vary_constraints_and_perspectives |
intelligence_creativity_vary_constraints_and_perspectives_v1 |
artifact.general.creativity.constraint_variation_matrix |
validator.general.creativity.02_creative_brief_requirement_and_prohibited_outcome_coverage, validator.general.creativity.04_contextual_usefulness_taste_and_stakeholder_appropriateness_review |
capability.general.creativity.evaluate_originality_and_usefulness |
intelligence_creativity_evaluate_originality_and_usefulness_v1 |
artifact.general.creativity.novelty_reference_set, artifact.general.creativity.creative_critique_record |
validator.general.creativity.02_creative_brief_requirement_and_prohibited_outcome_coverage, validator.general.creativity.04_contextual_usefulness_taste_and_stakeholder_appropriateness_review |
capability.general.creativity.refine_ideas |
intelligence_creativity_refine_ideas_v1 |
artifact.general.creativity.refined_concept_set |
validator.general.creativity.02_creative_brief_requirement_and_prohibited_outcome_coverage |
capability.general.creativity.maintain_idea_portfolio |
intelligence_creativity_maintain_idea_portfolio_v1 |
artifact.general.creativity.idea_portfolio, artifact.general.creativity.idea_family_map |
validator.general.creativity.03_influence_attribution_license_and_originality_claim_boundary |
capability.general.creativity.choose_creative_method |
intelligence_creativity_choose_creative_method_v1 |
artifact.general.creativity.creative_method_decision |
validator.general.creativity.01_semantic_near_duplicate_and_idea_family_diversity_audit, validator.general.creativity.02_creative_brief_requirement_and_prohibited_outcome_coverage, validator.general.creativity.03_influence_attribution_license_and_originality_claim_boundary |
Each capability contract in the manifest defines inputs, outputs, preconditions, postconditions, method-selection rules, invariant references, failure states, risk gate, metrics, and the existing forge-lcdl tasks/operators to compose.
Artifact schemas
| Artifact type | Schema reference | Required payload fields | Sensitivity |
|---|---|---|---|
artifact.general.creativity.creative_brief |
../schemas/artifacts/creativity.schema.json#/$defs/creative_brief |
purpose, scope, stakeholders, requirements, constraints, assumptions, success_criteria | internal |
artifact.general.creativity.idea_portfolio |
../schemas/artifacts/creativity.schema.json#/$defs/idea_portfolio |
items, generation_method, diversity_dimensions, constraints, screening_status | internal |
artifact.general.creativity.idea_family_map |
../schemas/artifacts/creativity.schema.json#/$defs/idea_family_map |
purpose, scope, entities_or_nodes, relations_or_edges, assumptions, boundary, validation_evidence | internal |
artifact.general.creativity.analogy_transfer_map |
../schemas/artifacts/creativity.schema.json#/$defs/analogy_transfer_map |
entries, entry_ids, owners, status, source_refs, updated_at | internal |
artifact.general.creativity.constraint_variation_matrix |
../schemas/artifacts/creativity.schema.json#/$defs/constraint_variation_matrix |
purpose, scope, entities_or_nodes, relations_or_edges, assumptions, boundary, validation_evidence | internal |
artifact.general.creativity.novelty_reference_set |
../schemas/artifacts/creativity.schema.json#/$defs/novelty_reference_set |
items, generation_method, diversity_dimensions, constraints, screening_status | internal |
artifact.general.creativity.creative_critique_record |
../schemas/artifacts/creativity.schema.json#/$defs/creative_critique_record |
entries, entry_ids, owners, status, source_refs, updated_at | internal |
artifact.general.creativity.refined_concept_set |
../schemas/artifacts/creativity.schema.json#/$defs/refined_concept_set |
items, generation_method, diversity_dimensions, constraints, screening_status | internal |
artifact.general.creativity.creative_method_decision |
../schemas/artifacts/creativity.schema.json#/$defs/creative_method_decision |
decision_id, decision_or_question, options_or_routes, governing_constraints, evidence_refs, rationale, status, owner, next_action, review_or_reopen_triggers | internal |
Validators
| Validator ID | Kind | Automation | Severity | Failure action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
validator.general.creativity.01_semantic_near_duplicate_and_idea_family_diversity_audit |
diversity | hybrid | major | repair |
validator.general.creativity.02_creative_brief_requirement_and_prohibited_outcome_coverage |
constraint | deterministic | major | repair |
validator.general.creativity.03_influence_attribution_license_and_originality_claim_boundary |
provenance | hybrid | major | repair |
validator.general.creativity.04_contextual_usefulness_taste_and_stakeholder_appropriateness_review |
human_review | human_review | minor | conditional_pass |
validator.general.creativity.05_harm_misuse_stereotype_and_exclusion_challenge |
adversarial_review | hybrid | minor | conditional_pass |
Validator checks return itemized evidence and support pass, conditional_pass, fail, inconclusive, or a governed repair/escalation path. Generation does not self-certify.
Existing execution substrate
Tasks to reuse: decompose_problem, extract_schema_from_text, llm_enum_route, llm_multi_label, plan_decision_pack
Operators to reuse: branch, fallback_chain, for_each, optional_step, seq, try_catch, until_ok
Cross-intelligence handoff
- artifact_id, type, version, producer capability, provenance, scope, assumptions, uncertainty, sensitivity, validation status, and next action
- No free-text handoff may replace a required typed artifact when a downstream validator depends on structure.
Information-loss checks: - all hard constraints preserved - all blocker findings preserved - source scope and date preserved - assumptions and dissent preserved - units, time zones, identifiers, and uncertainty preserved
Evaluation and release
Suite: ../evaluation_suites/creativity.yaml
- 100% schema validity for released artifacts
- 100% material traceability
- no unresolved blocker validator
- no missed critical escalation in the approved benchmark
- documented conditional-pass limits and human gates
Promotion to implementation maturity I1
- Create repository-native input and output contracts for every candidate task ID.
- Implement deterministic portions of validators and declare independent human or model review for semantic portions.
- Connect a provenance-preserving source resolver and enforce freshness and jurisdiction rules.
- Pass the per-pack suite and dependency regression suites at release thresholds.
- Complete security, privacy, accessibility, and domain-owner review appropriate to risk.
- Publish LMETA/LCDL exact-overlay links and CI parity checks.
Exact-overlay identity
The LMETA and LCDL pages share the concept ID, semantic version, capability IDs, and invariant IDs. tools/validate_pack.py checks this parity.
Paired overlay
Runtime maturity
- Capabilities: 9
- Technical floor→ceiling:
I1_runtime→I1_runtime - Autonomy floor→ceiling:
A0_assisted→A0_assisted - I1_runtime count: 9
- Evidence class:
contract: 9 - Full hierarchy: MATURITY-HIERARCHY.md
Evaluation suite status
- CI status:
pass - Suite:
evaluation_suites/creativity.yaml - Cases defined: 7
- Capabilities under test: 9