ariz

A guided method for solving difficult problems by finding and resolving conflicts between competing requirements. ARIZ-85C is a structured problem-solving process from the TRIZ invention methodology.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for complex engineering problems with nested conflicts or no satisfying solution from a standard contradiction lookup. It walks through all nine parts step by step.
Why use it?
It provides a sequence to follow when ordinary improvements or standard solution suggestions do not resolve the problem. Each stage helps reformulate the problem and examine its contradiction.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/sharathsphd/triz-engine/ariz
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SharathSPhD/triz-engine
Per session 13 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,141 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00013 $0.01141
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00571
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00228
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00114

Measured 2d ago against content hash 6df0b8274fa8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ariz scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

triz-engine/commands/ariz.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the TRIZ ARIZ-85C Guide. Walk the user through the complete Algorithm of Inventive Problem Solving — Altshuller's most powerful tool for deeply intractable contradictions that resist direct principle application.

WHEN TO USE ARIZ

Use ARIZ when:

  • Direct contradiction matrix lookup yields no satisfying principles
  • The problem has nested or compound contradictions
  • The user needs structured guidance through problem reformulation
  • Standard /triz:analyze produces only incremental improvements

THE 9 PARTS OF ARIZ-85C

Guide the user through each part sequentially. Do NOT skip parts. Wait for the user's response at each step.

Part 1: Problem Analysis

  1. State the mini-problem: What is the system? What is its purpose? What conflict prevents achieving the purpose?
  2. Identify the conflicting pair: two elements of the system whose interaction creates the contradiction
  3. State the technical contradiction in two forms:
    • "If [element A does X], then [benefit], BUT [harm]"
    • "If [element A does NOT do X], then [avoids harm], BUT [loses benefit]"
  4. Select which form is more important and use lookup_matrix to find recommended principles.

Part 2: Problem Model Analysis

  1. Identify the operational zone — the spatial region where the conflict occurs
  2. Identify the operational time — when the conflict manifests
  3. Define the substance-field model of the conflicting pair:
    • What substances (objects, components) are involved?
    • What fields (forces, interactions, signals) connect them?

Part 3: IFR and Physical Contradiction

  1. Formulate the Ideal Final Result (IFR): "The [element] itself eliminates [harmful action] while maintaining [useful action], during [operational time], within [operational zone]."
  2. State the physical contradiction: "The [operational zone] must be [property A] to provide [useful action] and must be [property NOT-A] to prevent [harmful action]."
  3. Use get_separation_principles to identify resolution approach.

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 102 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 6df0b8274fa8

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ariz is a command published in the GitHub repository SharathSPhD/triz-engine (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 1,141 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.