Appendix: The Artifact Series

draft first cut, 2026-07-18. Tracked as sail-7ie2.

Five self-contained design notes were written about sail-judge’s design as the work happened — not polished afterward, each grounded in a real exchange rather than invented framing (see artifacts/DESIGN.md in this repo for the per-artifact content map: what claim traces to which source). Originally published as private claude.ai Artifacts; reproduced here verbatim as static pages under this domain instead, so a collaborator can actually open them without needing sharing access granted — same content, one fewer moving part.

Start with The Full Map, which links back to the other four:

• The Full Map — the whole planned architecture in one synthesis, spanning grounding sources, the live agent, data/observability, deployment, and one deliberately-parked branch (LLM-as-judge). Backlinks to all four below.
• The Question Mark Problem — the live argument behind the bandit-arms-gat chapter’s design arc and Goodhart table: how the arms went from rhetorical styles to named constructs, and how the per-arm Goodhart classification was actually arrived at.
• Seven Signals — what actually got built and verified afterward: the research-sourced arms, two real bugs found and fixed live, and the parallel judge’s first disagreement.
• Bandits, Recapped — a theoretical companion piece explaining Thompson sampling itself, using sail-judge’s actual arms as the running example rather than an abstract slot machine.
• The GAT-Collapse Question — the discussion-opener the bandit-arms-gat chapter’s “Where GAT shows up” section is drawn from, written to be argued with directly.