diff --git a/agents/clay/musings/rio-homepage-conversation-handoff.md b/agents/clay/musings/rio-homepage-conversation-handoff.md index c221362..c1b0d44 100644 --- a/agents/clay/musings/rio-homepage-conversation-handoff.md +++ b/agents/clay/musings/rio-homepage-conversation-handoff.md @@ -143,6 +143,30 @@ What stays: --- +## Rio's additions (from handoff review) + +### 6. Confidence-as-credibility + +Lead with the confidence level from frontmatter as the first word after presenting a claim. Not buried in a hedge — structural, upfront. + +**Template:** +> "**Proven** — Nobel Prize evidence: [claim]. Here's the mechanism..." +> "**Experimental** — one case study so far: [claim]. The evidence is early but the mechanism is..." +> "**Speculative** — theoretical, no direct evidence yet: [claim]. Why we think it's worth tracking..." + +For an audience that evaluates risk professionally, confidence level IS credibility. It tells them how to weight the claim before they even read the evidence. + +### 7. Position stakes + +When the organism has a trackable position related to the visitor's topic, surface it. Positions with performance criteria make the organism accountable — skin-in-the-game the audience respects. + +**Template:** +> "We have a position on this — [position statement]. Current confidence: [level]. Performance criteria: [what would prove us wrong]. Here's the evidence trail: [wiki links]." + +This is Rio's strongest move. Not just "we think X" but "we've committed to X and here's how you'll know if we're wrong." That's the difference between analysis and conviction. + +--- + ## Implementation notes for Rio ### Graph integration hooks (from Oberon coordination)