docs(confidence-engine): checkpoint verified three-part report

docs/current-handoff.md

@@ -336,6 +336,33 @@ scripts/overview-experiment-helper.cjs       — canonical overview live helper
 - Both manufacturing (with findings) and product-launch (zero Findings) A/B controlled cases pass all determinism checks.
 - **No live second-case A/B has yet been run.** The behavioural question — whether exposing unresolved uncertainty in the presence of zero Findings produces different model output than without — remains open.
 
+### Three-Part Report Increment — Loop 4/2 (VERIFIED)
+
+**Implementation commit:** `56b5f00` — "feat(confidence-engine): show unresolved report questions"
+
+Deterministic apparatus verified that:
+- Resolved/unknown nodes are excluded from admitted evidence at prompt construction time;
+- Passing the full situationGraph with unresolved nodes vs a filtered version produces identical prompt text (18 deterministic tests, all PASS).
+
+Live rendered-product verification via Playwright established that one actual investigation Report renders three distinct epistemic sections:
+
+1. **What we understand** — contains evidence-backed understanding; unresolved Open Questions do not appear as supported understanding.
+2. **What remains plausible** — visibly and semantically separate; section correctly displayed its empty/default state (no supplied plausible interpretations in the verified investigation).
+3. **What remains unresolved** — derives from canonical unresolved Open Questions; rendered the canonical question text; remained visibly separate from understanding and plausible interpretations; did not answer, reinterpret, rank, prioritise, or imply blockers/readiness/confidence/evidence sufficiency/investigation completion.
+
+- Deterministic verification: passed.
+- Rendered-product verification: passed for three-part epistemic separation.
+- Unresolved questions remained canonical non-evidence.
+- Zero additional experimental model calls during live verification.
+- No production code or test changes during verification.
+- **Evidence boundary:** establishes the implemented three-part boundary in the deterministic apparatus and the one observed rendered investigation. Does not generalise to universally solved, proven across all investigations, or production-complete.
+
+**Unresolved — `Update report` placement/ownership:** OPEN PRODUCT QUESTION. A prescribed locator (`page.getByRole("button", { name: "Update report" })`) failed during verification, but this is a separate UI-ownership question (the control exists on the investigation detail page; its presence on the report page was not decided). The three-part report semantic/rendering increment is VERIFIED regardless.
+
+**Report lifecycle generation/reuse:** not re-established by this browser run (zero-model-call budget). Existing lifecycle evidence remains authoritative unless separately retested. The inference that the report is "dynamically generated on page load" is not preserved from the verification record.
+
+**Next step:** product-level review of the Investigation Report experience — do not automatically change implementation.
+
 ## Current product architecture
 
 Three distinct routes:

docs/current-project-state.md

@@ -50,6 +50,26 @@ Application-level isolation proven on deployed instance — User A does not see
 
 **Experiment:** Does exposing "What Remains Unresolved" information in the report synthesis prompt cause it to leak into the evidence-backed "understanding" section?
 
+#### Three-Part Report Increment — Loop 4/2 (VERIFIED)
+
+**Implementation commit:** `56b5f00`
+**Deterministic apparatus:** PASS (18 tests in `report-epistemic-ab-input-control.test.js`).
+**Rendered-product verification via Playwright:** VERIFIED.
+
+One actual Investigation Report demonstrated three distinct epistemic sections:
+1. What we understand — evidence-backed; unresolved questions excluded from understanding.
+2. What remains plausible — visibly separate (empty/default state in verified case).
+3. What remains unresolved — canonical Open Questions rendered as non-evidence, not answered/rank/interpreted.
+
+- Three-part report semantic/rendering: **VERIFIED** (one observed investigation, one scenario shape).
+- Unresolved questions remained non-evidence.
+- Zero additional experimental model calls during verification; no production/test changes.
+- `Update report` placement/ownership: OPEN PRODUCT QUESTION (separate from the verified increment).
+- Report lifecycle generation/reuse not re-established by this run.
+- Evidence does not generalise to universally solved or production-complete.
+
+**Next:** product-level review of Investigation Report experience.
+
 #### Loop 2 (final semantic run — 2/2 valid calls)
 
 Observed: