Separate Ben’s Authority From Coach Synthesis

Capture

Verified Ben content must remain distinguishable from AI-generated explanation.

Why

This decision matters because separate Ben’s Authority From Coach Synthesis constrains the product toward continuity, evidence, and human judgment rather than broad AI helpfulness.

Why-Not

The rejected path would make separate Ben’s Authority From Coach Synthesis too easy to treat as an implementation detail instead of a public boundary. The ADR preserves the tradeoff explicitly so later product work cannot silently widen authority.

Commit

Decision: Verified Ben content must remain distinguishable from AI-generated explanation.

• provenance metadata matters;
• corpus quality matters;
• the Coach must be able to say “I do not have an exact Ben source for that.”

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Confidence: Medium-high for public architecture; implementation details remain private and subject to launch evidence.

Timestamp

2026-07-17