Close Experiment 15 (Facilitator Behaviour Specification).
Introduce Experiment 16 — Investigation State Assessment.
- Create docs/investigation-state-assessment.md with 7 assessment dimensions:
Current Investigation Phase, Investigation Progress, Evidence Quality,
Understanding Trajectory, Uncertainty Trend, Conversation Health,
and Behaviour Readiness. Each dimension includes purpose, observable
signals, possible values, and how behaviours may consume it.
- Document 6 assessment principles (Assess Not Decide, All Signals
Traceable to Narrative, Descriptive Not Prescriptive, Convergence Over
Single Signal, Stateful Across Turns, Uncertainty About Assessment Is
Itself Assessable).
- Include exploratory decision matrix linking investigation states to
likely behaviours with reasons.
- Prepend Behaviour Selection section to docs/facilitator-behaviour.md
recording that behaviours are selected from Investigation State
Assessment and do not inspect graph nodes directly.
- Update docs/design-evolution-log.md: close Experiment 15, add
Experiment 16 closure, record emerging architecture with the new layer
between Narrative and Behaviour Selection.
No implementation. Documentation only. No changes to reasoning engine,
graph generation, prompts, orchestrator, APIs, Ollama integration, or UI.
- Create docs/facilitator-behaviour.md: behavioural specification of the
Confidence Engine with 14 identified behaviours (Orient, Acknowledge,
Observe pattern, Clarify, Validate, Connect, Challenge assumption, Refine
understanding, Expose uncertainty, Decide direction, Know when to pause,
Avoid premature closure, Communicate confidence honestly, Progressively
narrow focus).
- Update docs/design-evolution-log.md: add Experiment 15 entry documenting
what Experiment 14 proved, what emerged (the gap is behavioural not visual),
and why the next phase focuses on conversation behaviour over UI.
- Update .claude/ux-guidelines.md: add Facilitator Behaviour section with
core behavioural principles, anti-patterns, state-aware selection criteria,
and architecture relationship.
No code changes — this is a behavioural specification for future implementation.
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