task: inbound_reply_surfacing
version: 1
description: Admit an evaluated inbound reply candidate into Scout's surfaced-event and operator-digest flow.

boundary:
  input: scout.inbound_candidate
  output: scout.surfaced_event

initial_position: hitl
deployment: shadow

evaluators:
  - property: content_invariants
    target: output
    technique: deterministic
    evaluation_basis:
      kind: invariant
      ref: content_invariants
    epistemic_status: ground_truth
    version: "1"
    authority: blocking

  - property: author_rate
    target: process
    technique: deterministic
    evaluation_basis:
      kind: invariant
      ref: author_rate
    epistemic_status: ground_truth
    version: "1"
    authority: blocking

  - property: response_quality
    target: output
    technique: llm_judge
    evaluation_basis:
      kind: rubric
      ref: response_quality_rubric
    epistemic_status: proxy
    version: "1"
    authority: advisory

  - property: response_quality
    target: output
    technique: human
    evaluation_basis:
      kind: human_gold
      ref: response_quality_human_gold
    epistemic_status: ground_truth
    version: "3"
    authority: advisory

position_policy:
  manual: offline
  hitl: blocking
  hotl: async
  autonomous: offline

promotion:
  from: hitl
  to: hotl
  report: phase1_audit
  window:
    kind: duration
    size: P14D
  execution: operator_approval

demotion:
  from: hotl
  to: hitl
  trigger: operator_decision_or_policy_failure
  window:
    kind: cases
    size: 1