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dtoro f1c4566576 Initial commit — design docs + Phase 0 validation harness
Sets up the Socrata project repo with:

docs/ — strategy and design documents
  - idea.md: full product vision
  - implementation-plan.md: Phase 0 + Phase 1 MVP plan
  - phase-0-validation.md: 2-week validation experiment strategy
  - phase-0-plan.md: concrete Phase 0 build plan
  - phase-0-results.md: Phase 0 gate outcome — GO for MVP
  - sysml-modeling.md: metamodel + SE discipline + validation rules
  - socrates.md: agent character, surfaces, modes, prompts, lifecycle
  - sync.md: bidirectional text↔diagram sync engineering
  - design-source/: HTML/CSS/JS handoff bundle from Claude Design

phase-0/ — validated harness (CLI, no UI, no DB)
  - LM Studio (local OpenAI-compatible) generation + detection + judge
  - PlantUML rendering for SysML model visualization
  - 10-seed corpus (8 working + 2 holdouts)
  - 5 corpus runs with iteration history in reports/
  - Final gate: 10/10 pass, mean 4.32/5, holdouts validated

Phase 1 MVP scope and milestones documented in implementation-plan.md.
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# Notes — second scored corpus run, post generate.md iteration (2026-04-28, run 03)
Detailed report: `reports/2026-04-28-2115-run.md`
## Change applied
Tightened `src/prompts/generate.md` with explicit guidance separating constraints from requirements:
> Each item from `seed.constraints` belongs in EXACTLY ONE place — the `constraints` array. Do NOT also output it as a requirement. (...) The `requirements` array should contain things derived from `seed.desiredOutcome` — NOT a re-encoding of `seed.constraints`.
## Headline result
| | Run 02 (baseline) | Run 03 (this) | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| **Pass rate** | 7/8 = 87.5% | 7/8 = 87.5% | flat |
| **Corpus mean** | 4.16 | 4.11 | -0.05 |
| **Constraint↔requirement duplication** | present every seed | **eliminated every seed** | ✓ fix |
Score did not move materially. Underlying output structure is meaningfully cleaner.
## Per-seed deltas
| Seed | Run 02 | Run 03 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01-aristotle | 4.14 / 3 | 4.14 / 3 | flat |
| 02-habit-coach | 4.57 / 4 | 4.43 / 4 | -0.14 |
| 03-redline-ai | 4.43 / 4 | 4.14 / 3 | -0.29 |
| 04-skillswap | 4.43 / 4 | 4.43 / 4 | flat |
| 05-cyclist-thing | 4.00 / 3 | **3.00 / 2** | **-1.00 ✗** |
| 06-eventstream | 3.43 / 2 | 4.14 / 3 | +0.71 ✓ |
| 07-pet-translator | 4.14 / 3 | 4.43 / 4 | +0.29 |
| 08-quiet-hours | 4.14 / 3 | 4.14 / 3 | flat |
**4 seeds flat, 2 up, 2 down.** Eventstream's improvement was a re-run earlier in the session before this corpus pass — already known to be stochastic. So in pure-iteration terms: 4 flat, 1 up (pet-translator), 3 down (habit-coach, redline-ai, cyclist-thing).
## Where the fix shows in the artifacts
Cross-checked four seeds with explicit `seed.constraints`. All show clean separation:
```
01-aristotle
C[3]: Must never output a complete solution... ; Response latency under 1.2s... ; FERPA tenancy...
R[2]: facilitate low-stakes re-engagement ; guide student without providing final solutions
↑ both derived from desiredOutcome, not from constraints
03-redline-ai
C[4]: Word integration ; no cross-customer training ; audit trail ; SOC 2
R[2]: first-pass redlines complete in minutes ; GC reviews AI suggestions
↑ both from desiredOutcome
06-eventstream
C[3]: Kafka wire-compat ; single binary 100k/s ; Apache 2.0
R[3]: backpressure first-class ; consumer-driven flow control default ; LLM-pipelined workloads
↑ from desiredOutcome and the protocol-design vision
08-quiet-hours
C[3]: GCal+Outlook RW ; timezone-respect ; no auto-blocking first 30 days
R[3]: 2 contiguous focus blocks/week ; invisible negotiation ; reduce social cost
↑ from desiredOutcome
```
Compare to run-02 where the same seeds had REQ-NNN entries that literally restated `seed.constraints` text.
## The Cyclist Thing regression
Run 02: 2 blocks, 1 association, 0 constraints, 0 requirements, conf 0.30 → score 4.00 (vague handled correctly)
Run 03: 4 blocks, 3 associations, 0 constraints, **1 requirement**, conf 0.30 → score 3.00 (judge penalizes the inventing)
Hypothesis: the new prompt's "**derive requirements from `seed.desiredOutcome`**" instruction nudged the model to invent a requirement from "Something useful for them" rather than leave the array empty. The vague-seed escape hatch ("if too vague, return sparse and set confidence < 0.3") is still in the prompt but didn't fire as cleanly.
**Confidence stayed correctly low (0.30)** — the model knows it's overreaching. So the lower judge score reflects real over-generation that the model itself flagged.
Cheap fix candidate: add to `generate.md` — "If `seed.desiredOutcome` is too vague to derive specific requirements (e.g., generic 'something useful'), leave the `requirements` array EMPTY rather than inventing a placeholder."
## Judge sanity check (separate, this session)
Deliberately broken Aristotle (1 block, 0 of everything else, no findings) → judge gave **1.29 avg, min 1**. Real Aristotle scores 4.14. The judge isn't rubber-stamping.
## Decision matrix for next move
We've now validated:
- ✓ Generation works on a 4B local model
- ✓ Detection works (assumptions / risks / inconsistencies, with post-validation guard)
- ✓ Conversation loop works
- ✓ Propose-and-apply works (oneOf JSON-schema necessary for small-model op generation)
- ✓ LLM-as-judge works (sanity-checked against deliberately broken input)
- ✓ Vague-seed handling works (Cyclist Thing scored well in run-02; regressed in run-03 from a known cause)
- ✓ Feasibility-suspect handling works (Pet Translator)
- ✓ Constraint↔requirement separation now clean across all seeds
- ✓ Pass rate ≥ 80% (currently 87.5%)
- ✓ Corpus mean ~4.1 (well above the 3.5 per-seed threshold)
**Phase 0 has met its quantitative pass criteria** as defined in [phase-0-validation.md §6.3](../../docs/phase-0-validation.md).
Three plausible next moves:
**A. One more iteration.** Add the vague-desired-outcome guard, re-run. Cheap (~15 min). Likely restores cyclist-thing pass.
**B. Day 9: human review.** The user (you) reads the diagrams and findings and assigns scores. LLM-judge has been the sanity check; final scoring per the plan is human.
**C. Day 10: final round with holdouts.** Run Carbon Coach + Telemetry Lite under `--final` to verify the prompts generalize beyond what they were iterated against. Per the plan this is the gate decision.
Recommendation: A → C. Skip B until after C, since holdouts are the real test of whether iteration overfit.
## Token usage roll-up (this run)
Approximately:
- Generation: 8 × ~3k in / ~1k out = 24k in / 8k out (Sonnet/local)
- Detection: 8 × ~5k in / ~1k out = 40k in / 8k out
- Judge: 8 × ~2.5k in / ~0.3k out = 20k in / 2.4k out
- **Total ~84k in / 18.4k out** for full scored corpus
- LLM cost: $0 (local)
- Wallclock: ~10 minutes
## Updated open questions
- Iteration efficiency: 3 corpus runs done (~30 min compute, ~30 min author). Next iterations should be smaller, more targeted (single-seed re-runs) before triggering full corpus.
- Variance reporting: would help to run each seed N=3 times and report (mean, stdev) per dimension. Defer.