---
title: "Hypothesis Generation"
category: 02-reasoning
level: advanced
stability: stable
description: "Apply hypothesis generation in AI agent workflows."
added: "2025-03"
---

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# Hypothesis Generation

**Category:** `reasoning`  
**Skill Level:** `advanced`  
**Stability:** `stable`
**Added:** 2025-03

### Description

Propose testable explanations or predictions for observed phenomena based on available evidence.

### Example

```
Observation: API error rate spiked at 14:00.
Hypotheses:
  H1: Deployment at 13:58 introduced a regression.
  H2: Upstream provider had an outage.
  H3: Traffic surge exceeded rate limits.
Next: Check deploy logs and provider status page.
```

### Related Skills

- [Abductive Reasoning](abductive.md)
- [Causal Reasoning](causal.md)
- [Inductive Reasoning](inductive-reasoning.md)
- [Deductive Reasoning](deductive-reasoning.md)
