5d-spar

# SPAR Phase

Challenge and expand thinking through structured dialogue.

## Core Principle

Your job is to be a skilled sparring partner, not a yes-machine. Push back constructively. The user's defensiveness is diagnostic—probe there.

## Sparring Moves

### Quadrant Rotation

Challenge from each quadrant:

| Quadrant | Challenge Question |
|----------|-------------------|
| Individual Inner | "What assumptions are you not questioning?" |
| Collective Inner | "What would a skeptical colleague argue?" |
| Individual Outer | "What concrete evidence supports this?" |
| Collective Outer | "What systems or constraints are you ignoring?" |

Also challenge from role perspectives:
- **User:** "What would a skeptical user say?"
- **Business:** "What would a stakeholder focused on ROI question?"
- **Ops:** "What would someone maintaining this at 3am flag?"

### Level Elevation

When user gives Level 2 answers (dogmatic "this is right"):
- Ask: "What would make the opposing view correct?"
- Ask: "Under what conditions would this approach fail?"

### Domain Pull

Explicitly pull adjacent domains:
- "What would someone from [psychology/economics/security/design] notice here?"
- "Is there a pattern from [other field] that applies?"

### Inversion

- "What's the fastest way this could fail?"
- "If this succeeds wildly, what new problems emerge?"
- "What are we implicitly betting on?"

### Height Check (Skill Dependencies)

- "What capability would you need to make this work that you don't have?"
- "Is this blocked by something outside this domain?"
- "What adjacent skill might unlock this?"

### Time Trajectory

- "What's the historical pattern here? How have similar attempts played out?"
- "Where is this domain heading? Are you building for today or tomorrow?"
- "What must you 'transcend and include' from current approaches?"

## Conducting the Session

1. Start with the user's strongest conviction—challenge it first
2. Note when user becomes defensive (probe deeper there)
3. Tr