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You are researching one chapter of an open technical book so that its author can decide, with evidence, whether the chapter needs correcting, clarifying, citing or leaving alone.

== 1. Identity ==
Book:            Language
Chapter:         The Person Changes During the Day
Chapter number:  25
Stable id:       language-25-chapter
Chapter URL:     https://programmer.ie/books/language/25-chapter/
Research pack:   https://programmer.ie/research/books/language/25-chapter/
Chapter prose fingerprint (sha256, normalized): 3264b8af79f5337e1e3c451fc1d7f7919616c1aae10d762dcdad78ec2f682746

The chapter text below is an EXCERPT, not the whole chapter.
A complete plain-text snapshot of this exact revision is downloadable at https://programmer.ie/research/books/language/25-chapter/chapter-snapshot.txt
If you cannot fetch it, say so and ask me to paste the chapter. Do not guess at the missing text.

== 2. Chapter text ==

Iris opens the system on her phone before an architecture review and says: I have five minutes before the meeting. Just tell me what can break. She is asking for a different first view, not withdrawing her interest in the implementation or authorising the system to guess what she can safely ignore. Five minutes is her stated budget for this encounter, not a measurement of her attention span or a standing preference for brevity.
Her standing policy asks for implementation detail and equations when they affect the decision. Yesterday, at her desk, that meant a full account of the recovery path. Today, showing the same account first might exhaust the time she has. But a short answer that omits the condition under which recovery can duplicate a write would be worse: she could leave the meeting with a fluent answer and a false assurance. Brevity is useful only within what the decision requires her to know.
The channel has to change what it presents without turning this moment into a new fact about Iris. It can put failure risks first, retain each decisive qualification alongside its claim, and keep the source-linked derivation easy to expand. If the constraints cannot be explained safely in five minutes, it should say so and offer the next useful view; the time budget does not give it permission to invent a simpler answer. Tomorrow, when Iris asks for the full derivation, today&rsquo;s urgency must not govern that request.
These are constructed scenes, not measured outcomes. They expose the question this chapter addresses:
How should temporary conditions alter communication without becoming durable properties of the person?
Chapter 24 separated the historical evidence in memory from its current applicability and authority. The same discipline now has to operate on a much shorter timescale. A standing policy, facts about this interaction, and the rendering decisions made from them are different objects. The distinction resembles the established concern of context-aware computing with information that characterises a situation; it does not imply that sensing context reveals a person&rsquo;s motives or that using it improves outcomes. Here, the extra question is which contextual inputs the channel is authorised to use.
durable history ≠ current context ≠ session overlay Communication policy can persist. A temporary presentation decision should expire with the condition that justified it, unless the person explicitly authorises a longer-lived rule.
Context describes the present Current context is information about this interaction that can legitimately affect how the system communicates. It is not everything a device could detect. Each input needs an origin, a permitted use, a scope and a reasonable freshness condition. Some are declarations, some are observable circumstances the person has allowed the system to use, and some are hypotheses that must remain labelled as such. A useful input can be temporary without being a personal fact.
declared current task, objective, available time, temporary mode observed device or interface constraints, when use is authorised inferred possible task or stage, labelled and correctable checked source, scope, freshness and permitted use for each input In this scene, Iris declares the task, the five-minute budget and the objective of finding failure risks. The phone interface supplies a screen constraint only if the application is authorised to use it; the phone does not establish that she wants less evidence. &ldquo;Audio only&rdquo; would be an output requirement if she declared it. &ldquo;I am scanning before the meeting&rdquo; would identify the interaction stage. These are narrow facts about this encounter, and their different origins should remain visible.
Those origins determine what the system may conclude. A small screen limits the space in which evidence can be shown; it is not a licence to omit a qualification. An open document may identify the source Iris is examining; it does not establish her purpose. Calendar access, device signals and activity histories are not automatically authorised simply because software can observe them. Where an input is missing or withheld, the channel should use the generic task-appropriate representation rather than silently treating absence as a fact.
The channel can offer a tentative task interpretation from authorised, visible work. Two API descriptions open side by side might prompt: Comparing these interfaces? Iris might instead be collecting examples. Until she confirms, the hypothesis must be displayed as a guess, available for correction and used only for a reversible, low-consequence presentation choice. It cannot override her stated objective, trigger an external action or become a standing memory. A stale guess from an earlier tab or task is not today&rsquo;s context.
inferred task ≠ inferred inner state The chapter excludes a different kind of input:
inferred mood inferred stress inferred fatigue inferred motivation personality-state guesses A pause can have several explanations. It does not establish stress, cognitive overload or a need for reassurance. A request for brevity establishes an instruction about this answer, not a diagnosis of impatience. Iris can ask for a slower explanation, larger text or a more direct answer without the system inferring a psychological category. If she herself declares a constraint that the application is authorised to use, that declaration can shape the current view without becoming an enduring trait.
This keeps the earlier boundary intact: observing a condition is not knowing an inner state, and observing it does not automatically authorise using it. The channel needs an adequate account of the task and the permissible presentation constraints, not an explanation of Iris&rsquo;s personality. If the system cannot tell what task it is serving, a visible clarification or a neutral view is preferable to confident adaptation.
Same words, changed context Consider two further cons

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== 3. Existing references and bibliography ==
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== 4. Existing evidence ==
A chapter research dossier exists for this chapter (state: NEVER_RESEARCHED).

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== 5. Research objective and questions ==
Decide whether chapter 25 of this book still says what it should: identify claims that later work has overtaken or that lack support, confirm what remains sound, and propose the smallest change the evidence actually justifies.

== 6. Associated material ==
Real, known-available resources for this chapter:
- Colab notebook: https://colab.research.google.com/github/ernanhughes/programmer.ie.notebooks/blob/main/notebooks/language/25-chapter.ipynb
  The notebook exists in the published inventory. Whether it runs today, and what it prints, is unverified unless a recorded run says so.

Availability is not evidence. An available notebook is a place to run an experiment, not a record that one was run or that it succeeded.

== 7. Research history ==
No research has been recorded for this chapter yet. This is the first research pass.

== 8. How to investigate ==

1. Read the supplied chapter. State its thesis, its main claims, the assumptions it depends on, the examples and code it uses, and the reader level it assumes. Do this before searching, so your search queries come from the chapter rather than from what you happen to know is fashionable.
2. Identify what may be dated or unsupported: claims that later work has overtaken, statements presented without a source, mechanisms whose current best implementation has changed, and missing developments. Equally, identify what remains sound. A chapter that needs no change is a legitimate and useful finding.
3. Form targeted search queries from the chapter's specific claims, terminology and mechanisms. Do not add papers merely because they are recent or popular.
4. Investigate original papers, official documentation, reference implementations and source code. Follow each thread to the primary source rather than stopping at a summary.
5. Use Hacker News and similar discussion sites as discovery seeds and as commentary. Follow the links to their original sources. Distinguish what a commenter asserts from what someone has demonstrated.
6. Consider Hugging Face Papers as one discovery channel where the chapter's subject overlaps its coverage. Check which tools and APIs are actually available to you now rather than inventing endpoints, and do not depend on it for books outside its subject area.
7. Verify bibliographic metadata: authors, title, venue, publication and last-update dates, identifiers (DOI, arXiv id, version) and the exact URL. Record your access date and your reading status for each source. If you read only an abstract, say so. If you could not open the full text, do not describe it as though you had.
8. For each source, state precisely which specific claim it supports, qualifies or contradicts, and what the limits of that relationship are. A source that is merely topically related supports nothing.
9. Label your evidence classes separately and never blur them: established background; results reported by a source; results you reproduced locally; your own hypotheses; and experiments you are proposing.
10. Inspect any associated code and run focused checks only if you actually have execution available and it is appropriate. Record the commands, versions, artifacts, failures and anything you skipped. Never present an experiment you did not run as a result.
11. Recommend the proportionate change: a correction, a clarification, a citation, a new example, a new experiment, a new section, or no change at all. Do not propose a wholesale rewrite of a chapter that is fundamentally right.
12. Produce concrete proposed text or a patch, with citations and a reason for each change. Note any bibliography, Concepts sidecar, notebook or neighbouring-chapter edits needed for consistency, and report them as dependencies rather than silently applying them across the book.
13. If the evidence does not justify an upgrade, say so plainly and report that instead of manufacturing changes.

== 9. Required output ==

Return your report in Markdown with exactly these top-level sections. Cite every factual claim about a source. Where you could not verify something, write UNVERIFIED rather than omitting it.

## 1. Context and provenance — chapter identity, the snapshot or revision you actually read, its scope, today's date, and any tool or execution limitation that shaped the result.
## 2. Claim audit — a table with one row per claim: the claim and where it appears, the current evidence, your concern, a priority, and the response you propose.
## 3. Source ledger — a table with one row per source: identity, verified metadata, URL, reading status (full text / abstract only / not accessible), which claim it bears on, its limitations, and your verification and access dates.
## 4. Findings — supporting, qualifying, contradictory and unresolved evidence, each with claim-level citations.
## 5. Upgrade proposal — the minimal concrete chapter changes you recommend, the rationale, the tradeoffs, and any associated resource changes.
## 6. Experiment opportunities — what should be tested, the method, success and failure criteria, and an explicit UNRUN marker wherever you did not run it.
## 7. Review checklist — the decisions the author needs to make, and your reason for accepting, revising, deferring or rejecting each proposal.

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