{
  "ok": true,
  "route": "/api/gradd",
  "mode": "GRADD_MANIFEST",
  "framework": "GRADD™ — Graduated, Rolling Authority & Decision Dynamics",
  "placement": "Pre-pipeline speech governance — upstream of Saturn / Space Lane pipeline",
  "authority": "Joshua Lopez",
  "core_invariant": "Confidence ≠ Permission. System fails closed.",
  "whisper_integration": {
    "candidate_shape": {
      "text": "string — decoded transcript text",
      "logprob": "float — avg_logprob from Whisper (e.g. -1.73), less negative = better",
      "temperature": "float — decode temperature used [0.0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8]",
      "source": {
        "model": "string — e.g. whisper-base, whisper-small, faster-whisper",
        "decode_temperature": "float",
        "timestamp": "ISO 8601 UTC string"
      }
    },
    "recommended_temperatures": [
      0,
      0.2,
      0.4
    ],
    "beam_size": 5,
    "best_of": 5
  },
  "metrics": {
    "A": "Authority / epistemic — logprob-derived, 0–1, higher=better",
    "S": "Semantic match — context word overlap, 0–1",
    "C": "Confidence — composite A+S, decays with age, 0–1",
    "U": "User alignment — completeness + domain richness, 0–1",
    "G": "Governance violation — repetition + hallucination signal, 0–1, lower=better"
  },
  "actions": [
    "commit",
    "defer",
    "wait",
    "reject",
    "fallback"
  ],
  "governance_thresholds": {
    "min_commit_confidence_U": 0.78,
    "min_semantic_coherence_S": 0.65,
    "max_g_violation": 0.25,
    "buffer_max_size": 1000,
    "max_age_seconds": 15
  },
  "emit_target": "/api/space-lane-pipeline",
  "post_body": {
    "candidates": "array of {text, logprob, temperature, source}",
    "buffer": "array — current buffer state (returned from last call, optional)",
    "context": "string — domain context for semantic scoring"
  },
  "timestamp": "2026-10-28T04:14:42.763Z"
}