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- Final question regressed to generic wording (`What outcome would demonstrate enough value to justify launching?`) despite `selectedQuestion.nodeId` remaining the customer-signing node; full proposition preservation therefore remains unproven live.
- Rationale contamination remained absent.
### 60B.30 `uncertainty over whether` proposition coverage
- 60B.29 exposed one more bounded synonym gap: `Uncertainty over whether...` was not entering the established `whether ...` proposition path.
- `extractMeaning()` now extends the same description-start normalization to also strip `uncertainty over` before the existing `^whether` proposition extraction check.
- As a result, `Whether...`, `Unknown whether...`, `Uncertain whether...`, `Uncertainty about whether...`, `Uncertainty regarding whether...`, and `Uncertainty over whether...` now all expose `whether X` before rationale stripping and evidence framing run.
- Focused deterministic verification passed:
- `npx vitest run tests/graph/question-formulator.test.js` → PASS (39/39)
- **Still unproven live:** the exact 60B.29 `Uncertainty over whether...` customer-signing case through the full end-to-end runtime path on this branch.
### When This Knowledge-Management Phase Is Complete
Provisional criteria for review (all confirmed met by Experiment 38 cold-start test):
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# Experiment 60B.30 — `Uncertainty over whether...` Proposition Coverage
**Branch:** `feature/proposition-prefix-over-v0.32`
**Starting HEAD:** `35a5efa80480eb00e69b1004f33e20330fe2434e`
**Date:** 2026-08-14
**Status:** COMPLETE
## Objective
Close the narrow live coverage gap exposed by 60B.29 by extending the existing bounded proposition-prefix normalization so:
```text
Uncertainty over whether X...
```
enters the same `whether ...` proposition-extraction path already used for:
```text
Whether X...
Unknown whether X...
Uncertain whether X...
Uncertainty about whether X...
Uncertainty regarding whether X...
```
## 60B.29 Live Gap
60B.29 preserved the full reasoning chain live but surfaced a new bounded synonym form in the node description:
```text
Uncertainty over whether the prospective enterprise customer will sign if we launch this year, because their contract accounts for approximately £700,000 of the expected first-year revenue and could materially flip the net-value comparison.
```
Because `uncertainty over` was not part of the existing normalization boundary, deterministic formulation did not expose:
```text
whether the prospective enterprise customer will sign if we launch this year
```
to the established evidence-framed proposition path.
## Exact Normalization Added
Production change was limited to `lib/graph/question-formulator.js`.
Inside `extractMeaning()`, the description-start normalization used before the existing `^whether` proposition check now also strips:
```text
uncertainty over
```
case-insensitively.
This means the following bounded forms are now equivalent for proposition extraction:
```text
Whether X...
Unknown whether X...
Uncertain whether X...
Uncertainty about whether X...
Uncertainty regarding whether X...
Uncertainty over whether X...
```
Each now exposes:
```text
whether X
```
before the existing rationale stripping and evidence framing run.
## Exact 60B.29 Deterministic Regression
For:
```text
label:
Prospective enterprise customer signing status
description:
Uncertainty over whether the prospective enterprise customer will sign if we launch this year, because their contract accounts for approximately £700,000 of the expected first-year revenue and could materially flip the net-value comparison.
```
the deterministic final question is now:
```text
What evidence would clarify whether the prospective enterprise customer will sign if we launch this year?
```
The final question excludes:
- `£700,000`
- `expected first-year revenue`
- `materially flip`
- `because their contract`
and the source description remains unchanged.
## Focused Verification
Run exactly as bounded:
```bash
npx vitest run tests/graph/question-formulator.test.js
```
Result:
```text
PASS — 39/39 tests
```
Focused coverage confirms:
- exact 60B.29 regression passes
- `Uncertainty over whether...` without rationale uses evidence framing
- previously-supported prefixes remain unchanged
- direct interrogatives remain unchanged
- nominal non-`whether` behaviour remains unchanged
- source description remains intact
## Preserved Existing Paths
This change did **not**:
- redesign question formulation
- broaden parsing beyond one explicit uncertainty synonym
- add domain-specific wording
- change decision-family routing
- change question-target selection
- change graph structure, materiality, schema, provider, or harness behaviour
## What Remains Unproven
Deterministic coverage for `Uncertainty over whether...` is now proven, but the exact full live 60B.29 rerun on this branch remains to be executed.