tool-assisted

Tool-assisted describes performance enhanced by software or mechanical aids that wouldn't be available under normal conditions.

The term appears most often in gaming, where a tool-assisted speedrun uses emulator features like slow motion, frame-by-frame input, and save states to achieve theoretically perfect play.

The resulting runs demonstrate what's possible within game mechanics rather than human reflexes.

The concept extends to other fields where computational assistance pushes beyond unaided human capability.