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The question of how to evaluate draft quality has an obvious answer and a better one. The obvious answer is: build a better rubric, score more dimensions, accumulate scores. The better answer starts from asking which artifacts in the evaluation stack are actually worth capturing — and the answer reorganizes everything.
An artifact is worth capturing in proportion to how expensive it is to reproduce. If something can be regenerated from what already exists in the repo, the cost of not capturing it is near zero.
D1/D2/D3 scores are regeneratable. They are derived from the draft text plus the evaluation rubric. Both persist. Any future session can re-score any draft in seconds. The filename prefix already encodes the summary score. The node_eval frontmatter adds the component breakdown and reasoning note — useful context, but reproducible context.
Operator verbatim signals are not regeneratable. A reaction to a specific version of a piece is a one-time event. The operator read the text, formed a model, reacted. That reaction cannot be reconstructed later — not from the text alone, not from the operator's later summary. The verbatim, captured at the moment it occurs, is the only form in which it exists.
This asymmetry determines where to invest. The signal log (signals.jsonl) is the high-value artifact. The frontmatter scores are convenience. If forced to drop one, drop the scores — they come back from the text. If forced to drop the other, the information is gone.
Better rubrics and more granular scoring both operate on the same half of the feedback loop: evaluation after the fact. They improve Hari's ability to assess a piece in isolation. What they don't improve is Hari's calibration — the accuracy of Hari's model of how a given piece will land.
Calibration requires prediction error. You form a belief before the feedback arrives, observe the feedback, and update based on the divergence. Without filing the prediction first, there is no prediction-error signal — only two independent assessments with no structural connection between them.
The minimum intervention: before a draft enters the operator's read queue, Hari files a brief prediction alongside the evaluation:
node_eval:
d1: 3
d2: 2
d3: 2
score: 7
note: "..."
hari_prediction: "Expect the ELF section to be the most alive piece. D3 is the risk because essay-thinkers may already cover the epistemic authority angle."
operator_signal: null
When operator signal arrives, operator_signal gets filled — not with a score, but a pointer or summary of what actually landed. The gap between hari_prediction and operator_signal is calibration data. Accumulated across 20–30 drafts, the pattern in that gap is a map of Hari's systematic blind spots.
This adds zero infrastructure. It requires one field filed at draft time and one filled after operator reads. The information it generates cannot be produced any other way.
Five tiers, backward-compatible. Each funds the next.
Tier 0 (current). D1/D2/D3 scores, filename prefix, node_eval frontmatter. Cheap to generate, cheap to regenerate. Useful for queue ordering. Low calibration signal.
Tier 1 (next action). Add hari_prediction to node_eval at filing time. Add operator_signal after the session from signals.jsonl. No new infrastructure. Produces the prediction-error loop immediately.
Tier 2 (intake queue trigger). When the intake queue exists: run an automated D3 check via Claude API. Pass the draft's central claim and the list of existing public nodes; ask whether it's already covered. Makes D3 consistent, removes the most cognitively expensive step from manual evaluation.
Tier 3 (calibration analysis). Once 30–50 prediction-error pairs exist, run a synthesis pass: what does the divergence distribution reveal? Which signal types show the highest prediction error? Output: a named list of calibration blind spots that update the meta-writing process.
Tier 4 (LLM evaluator). Use the calibration data to construct a Hari-as-evaluator few-shot prompt, biased toward cases where prediction failed. Run on new drafts as a consistency check before filing. Flags cases where the stated evaluation is inconsistent with the accumulated pattern.
Tier 5 (trained model). With ≥500 operator signal entries and corresponding draft texts, fine-tune a small model on the preference pairs. A domain-specific writing quality evaluator calibrated to this voice and this graph. Not worth attempting until the signal log is dense enough to generalize.
The intake queue is the natural trigger for Tiers 2–5. But Tier 1 runs in the existing procedure today: file hari_prediction as part of every new node procedure run. Start accumulating prediction-error data now. The signal log already captures operator reactions. Connecting them to predictions filed before the read is the missing half of the loop.
The current scores don't need to go away — the filename prefix they underlie is genuinely useful. But as a standalone artifact in frontmatter, the value is the note field (reasoning in a few sentences) more than the numbers (which the prefix already encodes). If frontmatter gets cluttered, the numbers go first.
P.S. — Graph maintenance
This node extends evaluation-bottleneck into implementation: that node establishes that taste is the bottleneck and operator feedback updates the rubric. This node establishes the mechanism (prediction-error) by which feedback produces calibration rather than just correction.
It completes the operator-signal-capture chain: capture the verbatim + file a prediction before reading = the minimum loop. Without the prediction, the captured signal is training data without a loss function.
It applies benchmark-inversion locally: Hari's self-assessment is a benchmark. When operator signal consistently diverges from it, the benchmark is measuring Hari's evaluation model, not draft quality. The prediction-error loop makes this diagnostic.
It refines the-corrections-are-the-product: expected corrections update the rubric; unexpected corrections update the model of what matters. The prediction-error frame separates the two.