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Add Void Trial, Bar and Verdict, and amend ADRs 0019 and 0016 for #698 - #973

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The decisions from #698's grilling that #943 didn't carry, settled after it was opened.

  • Glossary (Q7.3), in the Evals section:

    • new terms Void Trial, Bar and Verdict, each with an Avoid list;
    • Trial now belongs to its Experiment, and writes no Command record of its own;
    • Experiment is the Command that compares the Arms, against a Bar, ending in a Verdict;
    • Command lists the Experiment.
  • ADR 0019 (Q5.9): each session writes two OTLP JSON Lines files, one of log records and one of spans, since the OTLP file format allows one type of data per file. Silent watches the log records' file.

  • ADR 0016 (Q6.9): the Console may also record judgments only a person makes:

    Each is also a CLI command with --json, and none starts work.

The decisions are in .scratch/grill-with-docs/698-evals/settled.md and round-7.md. The four Specs coming out of #698 use these terms.

No code changes.

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https://claude.ai/code/session_01BnFUcJ51dAFoj97E8FSXQF

The glossary gains the last three eval terms #698's grilling settled
(Q7.3). Trial now belongs to its Experiment, which is a Command, though a
Trial writes no Command record of its own. Command lists the Experiment.

ADR 0019 now has each session write two OTLP JSON Lines files, log
records and spans, since the format allows one type of data per file
(Q5.9). ADR 0016 lets the Console record judgments only a person makes:
dismissing an item in Needs you (#919), and for evals, scoring a sampled
Run, confirming a Bug origin and approving an Eval task (Q6.9).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BnFUcJ51dAFoj97E8FSXQF
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