The Living View
Trust comes from legibility, not faith. The Living View is the surface where you watch every decision the engine made — what changed, why, and what happened to the reward.
What you see
The timeline
A chronological feed of every DecisionLogEntry — the agent's action record. Each entry
shows:
- The action taken: a variant proposed, promoted, retired, a new InstrumentVersion created, or a candidate rejected.
- The target — which question or version was affected.
- The rationale — a human-readable explanation of why the engine did this.
- The reward delta — signed and colored: green when the reward improved, red when it dropped.
- The timestamp — relative ("3 hours ago") and absolute.
Entries are paginated; load more as you scroll.
Before / after diffs
Click any entry to open its detail. For rephrasings, see a word-level text diff of what the question was and what it became. For reorderings, see the old order next to the new. For new versions, see the InstrumentVersion context.
Rejection cards
Entries where action = reject_candidate are visually unmistakable: they surface the
exact rejected reason and the candidate that was blocked. Each reason maps to a
category:
- Objective regression — a required slot would become unreachable
- Forbidden claim — copy violated a stated claim bound
- Reading level exceeded — the target grade was overshot
- PII rule violated — the form would have asked something it's forbidden to ask
- Length bound exceeded — too many or too few questions
A rejected candidate never reaches a respondent. The guardrail caught it before it could ship.
Reward trend chart
A line chart of the reward over time, powered by RewardSnapshot[]. Toggle the
component signals — completion rate (gated), mean richness, normalized speed — to see
which signal moved. Tooltips show the exact snapshot values, the number of exposures,
and the posterior distribution summary when present.
Active instrument
The current live InstrumentVersion the engine produced — the ordered questions, their target slots, branching rules, and per-channel render hints. Read-only. Copy states: "Authored by the agent, within your bounds."
Why it matters
The Living View is the product's answer to "how do I trust an autonomous system?" The answer is: you watch. Every change is on the record. Every rejection is explained. The trend shows convergence. The instrument is inspectable. Autonomy is the promise; legibility is the proof.