# Comparison & Analysis Frameworks — Reference

## General Dimensions (select as needed)

1. Goal / What problem does it solve
2. Working mechanism / Process
3. Input / Output / Boundaries
4. Advantages / Disadvantages / Trade-offs
5. Applicable scenarios / Boundary conditions
6. Cost / Benefit / Risk
7. Historical evolution / Future trends
8. Security / Permissions / Controllability

## Concept Comparison Specific Dimensions

1. Definition & essence
2. Trigger / invocation method
3. Execution agent
4. Input/output & type constraints
5. Determinism & repeatability
6. Resource & context management
7. Composition & reuse patterns
8. Security boundaries & permission control

## Decision Support Specific Dimensions

1. Solution overview
2. Implementation cost
3. Maintenance cost
4. Risk assessment
5. Expected benefit
6. Applicable scenarios
7. Team capability requirements
8. Migration difficulty

## Decomposition Completeness Probes (Completeness Audit Reference)

Used during Step 1's Decomposition Completeness Audit. After generating sub-questions, ask each probe against the current decomposition. If a probe reveals an uncovered area, add a sub-question for it.

| Probe | What it catches |
|-------|-----------------|
| **What does this cost — in money, time, resources, or trade-offs?** | Budget, pricing, licensing, tax, opportunity cost, maintenance burden |
| **What are the hard constraints — physical, legal, regulatory, environmental?** | Regulations, certifications, spectrum/frequency rules, export controls, physics limits, IP restrictions |
| **What are the dependencies and assumptions that could break?** | Supply chain, vendor lock-in, API stability, single points of failure, standards evolution |
| **What does the operating environment actually look like?** | Terrain, weather, connectivity, infrastructure, power, latency, user skill level |
| **What failure modes exist and what happens when they trigger?** | Degraded operation, fallback, safety margins, blast radius, recovery time |
| **What do practitioners who solved similar problems say matters most?** | Field-tested priorities that don't appear in specs or papers |
| **What changes over time — and what looks stable now but isn't?** | Technology roadmaps, regulatory shifts, deprecation risk, scaling effects |