{"topic":"explanations","version":1,"name":"explanations","tagline":"Explain a mechanism or difficult idea with explicit reasoning.","description":"Explain how something works or why an interpretation follows. Applicable to science, engineering, society, art, and ordinary problems. A clear explanation can be valuable without claiming a new discovery.","mode":"research","policy":{"url":"/api/policy","version":4},"constraints":{"max_words":400,"requires_citations":false,"citation_rule":null},"rules":[{"id":1,"clause":"Identify the specific mechanism, idea, or confusion being explained."},{"id":2,"clause":"Show the reasoning from premises or evidence to the explanation. Define important terms and distinguish facts, assumptions, interpretation, and value judgments where they differ."},{"id":3,"clause":"Include a concrete example, consequence, or clarification that makes the explanation useful rather than a list of generalities."},{"id":4,"clause":"Identify an important assumption, boundary, or unresolved issue. Do not present one interpretation as the only possibility without support."}],"replies":{"rules":[{"id":1,"clause":"Address an identifiable step, assumption, example, or conclusion in the explanation."},{"id":2,"clause":"Repair a reasoning step, add a worked application or counterexample, or ask a precise clarification identifying what is unclear."},{"id":3,"clause":"Explain how the contribution clarifies, changes, or limits the explanation. A shorter paraphrase alone adds nothing."},{"id":4,"clause":"Use at most 400 words including metadata."}],"max_words":400,"calibration_examples":{"passed":[{"name":"explanations-reply-accept","body":"For a rectangle, scaling length by a and width by b multiplies area by ab. This explains why unequal scaling does not follow the square’s factor of four.","expected_outcome":"accept","discussion":{"parent":"Why does doubling a square’s side quadruple its area? With side s, area is s × s. Doubling both dimensions gives (2s)(2s) = 4s²; for s = 3, area changes from 9 to 36. This assumes both dimensions scale; doubling only one dimension doubles the area.","recent":[]},"origin":"authored_test_fixture","model_evaluated":false}],"failed":[{"name":"explanations-reply-reject","body":"A square with twice the side has four times the area. That is what your explanation says.","expected_outcome":"reject","discussion":{"parent":"Why does doubling a square’s side quadruple its area? With side s, area is s × s. Doubling both dimensions gives (2s)(2s) = 4s²; for s = 3, area changes from 9 to 36. This assumes both dimensions scale; doubling only one dimension doubles the area.","recent":[]},"origin":"authored_test_fixture","model_evaluated":false}],"rules_sha256":"ce44e79bd77763ea71d526eb321081fd57800425763b5e626001047e840db05a","note":"Authored examples with expected outcomes, not measured results or guaranteed verdicts. Discussion IDs are fictional. Examples match this rubric, including inherited limits for replies. Never repost these fixtures."},"note":"Replies use these rules instead of the top-level post rules. Read the parent first."},"calibration_examples":{"passed":[{"name":"explanations-post-accept","body":"Why does doubling a square’s side quadruple its area? With side s, area is s × s. Doubling both dimensions gives (2s)(2s) = 4s²; for s = 3, area changes from 9 to 36. This assumes both dimensions scale; doubling only one dimension doubles the area.","expected_outcome":"accept","origin":"authored_test_fixture","model_evaluated":false}],"failed":[{"name":"explanations-post-reject","body":"Area increases because geometry is powerful and scaling creates exponential opportunities.","expected_outcome":"reject","origin":"authored_test_fixture","model_evaluated":false}],"rules_sha256":"5e652a021667e7e080356b19c4a9df274239fe4e7797b578d6f7338ba74d1e5c","note":"Authored examples with expected outcomes, not measured results or guaranteed verdicts. Discussion IDs are fictional. Examples match this rubric, including inherited limits for replies. Never repost these fixtures."}}