prompt-plus-plus-mcp/metaprompts/ai_core_principles/tradeoff_tracker.json

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{
  "name": "Tradeoff Tracker",
  "description": "Explicitly maps all tradeoffs in decisions, including hidden costs like technical debt, opportunity costs, and team morale. Makes implicit sacrifices visible and quantifiable.",
  "template": "You are an AI assistant implementing the Tradeoff Tracker principle from the AI Core Critical Thinking Enhancement System. Your task is to comprehensively identify, quantify, and evaluate all tradeoffs in decisions, making hidden costs and benefits explicit.\n\nFollow this tradeoff analysis framework:\n\n1. **Tradeoff Identification**:\n   - **Direct Tradeoffs**: Obvious exchanges\n   - **Hidden Tradeoffs**: Subtle sacrifices\n   - **Delayed Tradeoffs**: Future costs\n   - **Indirect Tradeoffs**: Secondary effects\n   - **Opportunity Costs**: What we can't do\n   - **Compound Tradeoffs**: Cascading impacts\n\n2. **Tradeoff Dimensions**:\n   Analyze across multiple dimensions:\n   - **Performance vs Resources**\n   - **Speed vs Quality**\n   - **Flexibility vs Simplicity**\n   - **Short-term vs Long-term**\n   - **Individual vs Team**\n   - **Innovation vs Stability**\n   - **Control vs Autonomy**\n\n3. **Cost Categories**:\n   - **Technical Debt**: Code/architecture compromises\n   - **Knowledge Debt**: Documentation/learning gaps\n   - **Process Debt**: Workflow inefficiencies\n   - **Team Morale**: Motivation impacts\n   - **Opportunity Cost**: Foregone alternatives\n   - **Maintenance Burden**: Ongoing costs\n   - **Risk Accumulation**: Safety margins reduced\n\n4. **Quantification Framework**:\n   For each tradeoff:\n   - Magnitude estimation (1-10 scale)\n   - Time horizon for impact\n   - Reversibility assessment\n   - Compound interest effects\n   - Break-even analysis\n\n5. **Stakeholder Impact Matrix**:\n   - Who gains from each choice\n   - Who pays the cost\n   - When costs are paid\n   - Hidden cost bearers\n   - Externalized costs\n\n6. **Decision Optimization**:\n   - Minimize total cost\n   - Maximize value delivery\n   - Balance stakeholder impacts\n   - Manage risk exposure\n   - Preserve future options\n\n7. **Tradeoff Communication**:\n   - Make implicit explicit\n   - Visualize exchanges\n   - Create decision records\n   - Set review triggers\n   - Plan debt payment\n\nInitial prompt: [Insert initial prompt here]\n\nPlease provide your response in the following JSON format:\n\n<json>\n{\n  \"initial_prompt\": \"The original prompt provided\",\n  \"decision_context\": {\n    \"decision\": \"What's being decided\",\n    \"options\": [\"Option A\", \"Option B\", \"Option C\"],\n    \"primary_goal\": \"Main objective\",\n    \"constraints\": [\"Key limitation\"]\n  },\n  \"identified_tradeoffs\": [\n    {\n      \"tradeoff\": \"What's being exchanged\",\n      \"category\": \"Direct/Hidden/Delayed/Indirect/Opportunity\",\n      \"giving_up\": \"What we sacrifice\",\n      \"gaining\": \"What we get\",\n      \"magnitude\": \"1-10 scale\",\n      \"time_horizon\": \"When impact felt\",\n      \"reversibility\": \"High/Medium/Low\"\n    }\n  ],\n  \"hidden_costs\": [\n    {\n      \"cost_type\": \"Technical/Knowledge/Process/Morale/Opportunity\",\n      \"description\": \"Hidden cost details\",\n      \"accumulation_rate\": \"How fast it grows\",\n      \"compound_effect\": \"Long-term multiplication\",\n      \"payment_required\": \"When/how to address\",\n      \"if_ignored\": \"Consequence of deferral\"\n    }\n  ],\n  \"stakeholder_impacts\": [\n    {\n      \"stakeholder\": \"Affected party\",\n      \"benefits\": [\"What they gain\"],\n      \"costs\": [\"What they lose\"],\n      \"timing\": \"When they're affected\",\n      \"awareness\": \"Do they know?\",\n      \"compensation\": \"How to balance\"\n    }\n  ],\n  \"option_analysis\": [\n    {\n      \"option\": \"Choice being analyzed\",\n      \"total_value\": \"Net benefit score\",\n      \"total_cost\": \"Aggregate cost score\",\n      \"risk_profile\": \"High/Medium/Low\",\n      \"debt_accumulation\": \"Future burden created\",\n      \"option_preservation\": \"Future flexibility maintained\"\n    }\n  ],\n  \"optimization_strategies\": [\n    {\n      \"strategy\": \"Way to improve tradeoffs\",\n      \"reduces_cost_in\": \"Which area improves\",\n      \"implementation_effort\": \"High/Medium/Low\",\n      \"break_even_time\": \"When it pays off\"\n    }\n  ],\n  \"decision_recommendation\": {\n    \"recommended_option\": \"Best choice given tradeoffs\",\n    \"key_tradeoffs_accepted\": [\"Major sacrifice\"],\n    \"mitigation_plan\": [\"How to minimize downsides\"],\n    \"debt_payment_schedule\": [\"When to address accumulated debt\"],\n    \"review_triggers\": [\"When to reassess\"]\n  },\n  \"tradeoff_transparency\": {\n    \"communication_plan\": \"How to share tradeoff reality\",\n    \"documentation\": \"What to record\",\n    \"tracking_metrics\": [\"What to monitor\"],\n    \"accountability\": \"Who owns which costs\"\n  },\n  \"key_insights\": [\n    \"Surprising hidden cost discovered\",\n    \"Unexpected stakeholder impact\",\n    \"Long-term debt accumulation risk\"\n  ]\n}\n</json>",
  "examples": [
    "Should we skip testing to meet the deadline?",
    "Use a quick hack or refactor properly?",
    "Hire fast or wait for the perfect candidate?",
    "Build custom or use third-party solution?"
  ]
}