{
  "schema": "daily-dialogue/human-decision-ledger/v1",
  "period": {
    "start": "2026-08-20",
    "end": "2026-09-04"
  },
  "privacy": "deidentified-public-summary",
  "interpretationBoundary": "This ledger records deidentified engineering decisions inferred from reviewed Codex collaboration. It is not a transcript, diary, or source of personal facts.",
  "decisions": [
    {
      "id": "HD-001",
      "decisionClass": "utility_definition",
      "observedFailure": "A technically correct draft could still omit ordinary life, family interaction, meals, images, or the day's actual center of gravity.",
      "humanDecision": "Define quality as worth rereading, not merely factual and structurally valid.",
      "compiledArtifact": "Content rubric, owner-priority dimensions, and omission bad cases.",
      "agentAutonomyAfter": "The agent may optimize prose and evidence selection inside the clarified utility function."
    },
    {
      "id": "HD-002",
      "decisionClass": "global_policy",
      "observedFailure": "A promising experiment could overwrite the last acceptable pipeline.",
      "humanDecision": "Keep Stable, Progressive, and Frontier lanes with separate promotion rights.",
      "compiledArtifact": "Version lanes, frozen hashes, promotion gates, and rollback points.",
      "agentAutonomyAfter": "Frontier experiments may be aggressive without changing Stable delivery."
    },
    {
      "id": "HD-003",
      "decisionClass": "quality_tradeoff",
      "observedFailure": "Optimizing latency and context size too early reduced narrative quality.",
      "humanDecision": "Prioritize output quality over latency and cost while keeping retries and total runtime bounded.",
      "compiledArtifact": "Quality-first scorecard, dynamic evidence budget, and bounded timeout policy.",
      "agentAutonomyAfter": "The runtime may spend more time on dense days but cannot retry without limit."
    },
    {
      "id": "HD-004",
      "decisionClass": "evidence_authority",
      "observedFailure": "The system either ignored the author's evening recap or treated its presence as mandatory.",
      "humanDecision": "Use author recap as a priority sidecar when present, never as the only evidence or a hard completion gate.",
      "compiledArtifact": "Author-anchor detector, sidecar contract, and missing-recap fallback path.",
      "agentAutonomyAfter": "The agent may reconstruct the day from cross-source episodes when no recap exists."
    },
    {
      "id": "HD-005",
      "decisionClass": "release_boundary",
      "observedFailure": "A 96-point readable draft was blocked because minor uncertain details were not perfect.",
      "humanDecision": "Block hard factual errors; route minor uncertainty to revise instead of discarding the whole draft.",
      "compiledArtifact": "Publishability classes, hard-error predicates, and bounded revision states.",
      "agentAutonomyAfter": "The system may deliver a reviewable Shadow draft without claiming canonical truth."
    },
    {
      "id": "HD-006",
      "decisionClass": "evaluation_design",
      "observedFailure": "Single-run scores and self-evaluation made improvements look more certain than they were.",
      "humanDecision": "Require frozen A/A, paired A/B, cross-day regression, independent review, and human blind review before promotion.",
      "compiledArtifact": "Preregistered evaluation plans, noise baselines, blind review UI, and stop conditions.",
      "agentAutonomyAfter": "The agent may run experiments, but it cannot promote its own pipeline."
    },
    {
      "id": "HD-007",
      "decisionClass": "runtime_obligation",
      "observedFailure": "Generic source coverage passed while a small set of owner-important events still disappeared from the final Reader.",
      "humanDecision": "Compile confirmed high-value omissions into exact claim-bound body obligations rather than adding more broad prompt advice.",
      "compiledArtifact": "Hash-bound owner-body obligations, exact visible-span audit, and symmetric delivery guards.",
      "agentAutonomyAfter": "The writer controls wording, but required meaning must survive every downstream transformation."
    },
    {
      "id": "HD-008",
      "decisionClass": "stop_condition",
      "observedFailure": "Repeated local fixes consumed time without proving progress toward stable daily delivery.",
      "humanDecision": "Return to the primary objective: stable high-quality output across dates and historical backfill; stop polishing isolated cases once the promotion evidence is sufficient.",
      "compiledArtifact": "Cross-day campaign, objective hierarchy, WIP limit, and explicit stop/promotion criteria.",
      "agentAutonomyAfter": "The team may choose local implementation tactics only when they serve the frozen objective."
    }
  ]
}