No-Stress Swap
An act of replacing an overwhelming task specification with a more realistic, smaller-scope alternative during an AI-assisted exchange, observable as a deliberate substitution of the task under discussion.
Operational Definition
One occurrence would be coded when a turn replaces a previously requested task with an explicitly narrower or more feasible task (original scope stated earlier, substituted reduced scope adopted in a later turn). The substitution turn is the unit.
Measurement Schema
Proposed measurement protocol (not yet empirically validated): Rater coding of scope-reduction substitutions on transcripts by two coders; agreement would be assessed via Cohen's kappa; result could be reported as the count of substitution events per session.