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reading-position

corestablereading-position

A reading position is one of four questions a cold reading may be asked, each with its own object, its own output shape, and its own supply regime — the kind of claim its answers are allowed to be. The position is a closed operand of abcd reading assemble, and it decides what the assembler passes: blindness is a property of the input, so a position sees the intersection of its declared includes with the scope it was commissioned about.

Position	The question	Supply regime
widening	Given the situation as this design construes it, what configurations does the construal admit that are not present in what has been committed to?	generative
entailment	What does this design commit to, by being the kind of thing it is, that its articulation does not state?	explicative
comparative	For each candidate and each declared criterion, how do options of this shape ordinarily behave?	evaluative
detection	Where is the shipped tree in tension with the claim record?	registrative

The spelling

The record writes the full phrase on first use and drops to bare "position" inside the reading chapter and the readings charter, where the include table is described as positive at every grain — "a position, a source directory, a file match". The glossary fixes reading position as the form to use outside those two documents (iss-2609012245352480): "position" alone is a common English word, and the surface's own --position flag is the only other place it is unambiguous.

A position is not an agent, and not a surface. The four definitions live under agents/ because that is where the harness looks, but the position is the question; the agent is one host's way of answering it. The surface is /abcd:reading, which assembles the input and validates the output — and runs a reading only by sending the parked input to a provider the person has pointed the position at (ingest --dispatch).

When to use

Use "reading position" whenever the subject is which question a reading was commissioned to answer, or which supply regime its output is checked against.

When NOT to use

Do not use it for a review oracle or for one of the intent auditor's roles: those judge a specific artefact against its own claims. Do not use bare "position" in a document that also discusses steps, scope or surfaces.

Examples

"comparative does not assemble and refuses: its object has no channel."
"ingest --reading-json validates the output against the regime the position's definition licenses."

record families — the one page that maps the record families and how they relate
construal — what the widening position reads against
ledger — ledger content is what a reading must not see
oracle — a model invoked to review; a position is a question, not a reviewer
surface — /abcd:reading, the front door that assembles and validates

Frontmatter

term	reading-position
bounded_context	core
status	stable
aliases	reading position, position
definition	One of the four questions a cold reading can be commissioned to answer — widening, entailment, comparative or detection. The position fixes the reading's object, its question and the supply regime its output is validated against; `abcd reading assemble --position` names it.