{
  "title": "The instrument is the work",
  "thesis": "Building is cheap now; the instrument that can say no is the work.",
  "claim": "An instrument takes a candidate and a reference the candidate's author did not produce, compares them, reads a residual against a threshold, and returns a verdict that can be no.",
  "instrument": {
    "inputs": [
      {
        "id": "candidate",
        "label": "candidate",
        "note": "What was built. Cheap now; there are usually several."
      },
      {
        "id": "reference",
        "label": "reference",
        "note": "Independent of author and model: synthetic ground truth, held-out data, a person doing the task, a coupon on the bench, a phrase set the model must transcribe."
      }
    ],
    "comparator": {
      "id": "compare",
      "label": "compare",
      "note": "The operation that puts candidate against reference. Domain-specific; this is where the engineering is."
    },
    "residual": {
      "id": "residual",
      "label": "residual",
      "note": "A number, not an impression.",
      "example_value": "0.62",
      "unit": "mm"
    },
    "threshold": {
      "id": "threshold",
      "label": "threshold",
      "note": "Set before the run. Moving it after is the skip wearing a lab coat.",
      "example_value": "0.50",
      "unit": "mm"
    },
    "verdict": {
      "id": "verdict",
      "label": "verdict",
      "states": [
        "pass",
        "no",
        "ill-posed",
        "blocked"
      ],
      "example": "no"
    }
  },
  "outside": {
    "skip": {
      "label": "looks right",
      "note": "Candidate to verdict with no reference. The dashed edge."
    },
    "return": {
      "label": "returns, reusable",
      "note": "The instrument outlives the candidate. Running it again costs nothing."
    }
  },
  "authorship": [
    {
      "category": 1,
      "claim": "I wrote this",
      "position": "instrumented, understood"
    },
    {
      "category": 2,
      "claim": "AI-assisted; I chose the method and validated",
      "position": "instrumented, method mine"
    },
    {
      "category": 3,
      "claim": "AI-assisted; I'd want to study it more",
      "position": "instrumented, understanding pending"
    }
  ],
  "knowledge": {
    "id": "knowledge",
    "label": "knowledge",
    "note": "Where references come from and where instruments go. Every instrument built before."
  }
}