---
name: constraint-driven-ideation
description: Inject extreme constraints to force innovation — impossibility breeds creativity.
execution: strategy
used-by: perspective-forcing
---
# Constraint-Driven Ideation
Inject extreme constraints to force innovation — impossibility breeds creativity.
## State Ledger
| Resource | Target | Current | % |
|----------|--------|---------|---|
| web-search | 20 | 0 | 0% |
| web-research | 8 | 0 | 0% |
| paper-overview | 20 | 0 | 0% |
| paper-search | 12 | 0 | 0% |
| paper-research | 5 | 0 | 0% |
## HARD-GATE
Cannot exit strategy until ≥80% of each budget line is consumed OR yield targets are met with justification for remaining budget.
## Available Tactics
| Tactic | Role |
|--------|------|
| constraint-protocol | Inject constraints → force response → extract principles |
| evaluation-filtering | Filter and rank resulting ideas (shared) |
## Available SOPs
| SOP | Role |
|-----|------|
| constraint-response | Generate solutions under extreme constraints |
| perspective-synthesis | Synthesize constraint-forced insights |
## Execution Guidance
1. **Generate constraints**: Create 5-7 extreme constraints across types (resource, time, scale, audience, material, inversion, context)
2. **Apply sequentially**: Force a solution for each constraint — no "impossible" allowed
3. **Extract principles**: From each constrained solution, identify the transferable principle
4. **Combine**: Look for principles that reinforce each other
5. **Synthesize**: Build unconstrained solutions that incorporate the best constrained insights
## Minimum Yield
| Metric | Floor |
|--------|-------|
| Constraints applied | ≥5 |
| Forced solutions generated | ≥5 |
| Transferable principles extracted | ≥3 |
| Novel unconstrained solutions | ≥2 |