# Sacred Cow Hunting

> Find and challenge domain's unquestioned beliefs. Systematic identification and productive violation of dogma.

- Skill: `yogsoth-ai/sacred-cow-hunting` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add yogsoth-ai/sacred-cow-hunting`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/yogsoth-ai/sacred-cow-hunting/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: yogsoth-ai (https://skillmd.com/u/yogsoth-ai)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/yogsoth-ai/sacred-cow-hunting

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# Sacred Cow Hunting

Find and challenge domain's unquestioned beliefs.

## State Ledger

| Resource | Target | Current | % |
|----------|--------|---------|---|
| web-search | 30 | 0 | 0% |
| web-research | 10 | 0 | 0% |
| paper-overview | 25 | 0 | 0% |
| paper-search | 15 | 0 | 0% |
| paper-research | 8 | 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 |
|--------|------|
| assumption-enumeration | Surface paradigmatic assumptions (sacred cows) |
| inversion-protocol | Reverse sacred cows → build alternatives |

## Available SOPs

| SOP | Role |
|-----|------|
| sacred-cow-identification | Find domain's unquestioned beliefs |
| assumption-perturbation | Test consequences of violating sacred cows |
| benchmark-challenge | Challenge formalized sacred cows (standards) |
| reversal-generation | Generate formal negations of sacred cows |
| constructive-rebellion | Build alternatives that productively violate dogma |
| destruction-synthesis | Synthesize sacred cow hunting outputs |

## Execution Guidance

1. **Map the domain**: Identify the domain's core beliefs, rules, and "everyone knows" statements
2. **Hunt sacred cows**: Use sacred-cow-identification to find unquestioned beliefs
3. **Validate sacredness**: Confirm these are truly unquestioned (not just best practice)
4. **Research heretics**: Search for cases where violating these beliefs succeeded
5. **Perturb**: Use assumption-perturbation to model consequences of violation
6. **Reverse**: Use reversal-generation to create formal negations
7. **Build**: Use constructive-rebellion to form productive violations
8. **Synthesize**: Produce structured output via destruction-synthesis

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## Available Tactics

Optional, no fixed order; the final leaf is always a sop.

| Tactic | When to use |
| --- | --- |
| creative-ideation-assumption-enumeration | Surface, perturb, and prioritize assumptions by disruption potential. Orchestrates assumption surfacing → perturbation → sacred cow identification → prioritization. |
| inversion-protocol | Reverse statements → extract insights → build constructive alternatives. Systematic inversion pipeline from negation to innovation. |

## Available SOPs

Optional, no fixed order; the final leaf is always a sop.

| SOP | When to use |
| --- | --- |
| benchmark-challenge | Identify and negate benchmark assumptions. Deconstruct best practices to reveal hidden constraints and open new spaces. |
| constructive-rebellion | Build constructive alternatives from destructive negation. Transform violated assumptions into viable innovation directions. |
| creative-ideation-assumption-perturbation | Perturb each assumption, observe system response. Systematic stress-testing of assumptions to reveal fragility and opportunity. |
| destruction-synthesis | Synthesize all assumption destruction outputs into structured destructive innovation report. |
| reversal-generation | Systematically reverse positive statements to generate creative inversions. Produces reversed statements with initial associations. |
| sacred-cow-identification | Find domain's unquestioned beliefs. Systematic identification of dogma that constrains innovation. |

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