A usage configuration in which an AI system functions as an on-demand background work aid that the user invokes for discrete subtasks without sustained turn-by-turn dialogue or social framing. Characterized by short, intermittent, task-bounded calls.
STATE. Classified from interaction logs over a period: a user-system relationship is in this state when sessions are predominantly short, single-purpose invocations (e.g. median <=3 turns) interspersed across work rather than sustained conversational sessions. The construct is this session-shape profile.
Proposed measurement protocol (not yet empirically validated): Log-derived session-shape metrics over a usage window: median turns per session, share of single-turn invocations, inter-invocation gap; state assigned by threshold rule; no rater required (objective telemetry).
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