Lenses

Where a framework changes the structure of an answer, a lens changes the perspective it’s reasoned from. Same question, deliberately different angle of attack.

Built-in lenses

ID	Lens	The angle
`first-principles`	First principles	Break the problem down to root assumptions and rebuild
`outsider`	Outsider	An external point of view, immune to your in-group’s groupthink
`contrarian`	Contrarian	Argue the opposite of the obvious answer
`expansionist`	Expansionist	What if you went bigger — more ambitious, more scope?
`executor`	Executor	Operational focus — what it takes to actually ship this in the real world
`alien`	Alien	A completely novel angle, unconstrained by convention
`mom`	Mom	The home-and-family perspective
`dad`	Dad	The practical-economics perspective

Using one

Set the lens for a domain and it sticks. The single most powerful move:

lens = all

When the lens is set to all, the council multiplies: every panelist answers through every lens. Four panelists × eight lenses is up to 32 distinct reasoning passes on one question, then the chair synthesizes across all of them.

            first-principles   contrarian   executor   …   (8 lenses)
  claude          ●               ●            ●
  codex           ●               ●            ●
  agy             ●               ●            ●
  ollama          ●               ●            ●
                              ▼
                    chair synthesizes one verdict

Frameworks vs lenses

	Framework	Lens
Changes	How the answer is structured	Which perspective it comes from
Examples	BLUF, SCQA, OODA	first-principles, contrarian, mom
Multiplies the council?	No	Yes, when set to `all`

They’re orthogonal — combine freely.

Adding your own

Lenses live in src/lens.ts, with the same shape as frameworks (id, label, blurb, instruction). See Extending Prevail.