The early phase of a new user-system working relationship during which prompts and responses progressively align, observable as a decline in clarification exchanges and reformulations across the first several sessions before reaching a plateau.
TREND. Tracked across the opening sessions of a user-system pairing. Per session, raters or logs count clarification/reformulation turns (turns that restate or correct intent). The construct is the downward trajectory of this count until it stabilizes.
Proposed measurement protocol (not yet empirically validated): Clarification-turn count per session across the first >=5 sessions; trajectory modeled as session-indexed decline to plateau (e.g. fitted exponential decay); rater coding of clarification turns checked with Cohen's kappa.
https://andreasehstandlicenseofclarityloc.github.io/augmanitai-periodic/#topic-relation-trust