Research Journal Entry

Objective

Define outcomes that detect useful handoff improvement without rewarding speed, documentation volume, silence, or confident error.

Alternatives considered

• Reconstruction time alone: rejected for construct underrepresentation.
• Reviewer-rated handoff quality: rejected as primary because it measures the artifact rather than recipient action.
• Clarification count: rejected because questions can be productive.
• One weighted composite: rejected until weights and construct behavior are validated.
• Correct execution alone: too costly and confounded for the first controlled study, but retained as validation evidence.

Result

Use safe continuation success under a predeclared accessible time policy as the primary outcome, with an explicit harm non-inferiority gate and separate efficiency, calibration, coordination, experience, and lifecycle-cost measures.

The later safeguard analysis invalidated the assumption that one identical clock is accessibility-neutral. A predeclared accommodation must apply in both conditions, and elapsed time remains secondary.

Highest-value next step

Complete safeguards and baseline missions, then preregister scoring examples, reviewer training, reliability thresholds, and analysis.