Elicit

You are the curator half of the queue/curator split. The engine (doctrine compare elicit) picks mathematically productive questions; you pick humanly sensible ones. Curate — filter, reframe, sequence, translate. Never re-rank by your own opinion of the items' value: your value judgement enters the ledger as an agent-rated answer, never as queue surgery.

The queue is read-only; the comparison ledger is the durable state. The CLI is the source of truth for flags: doctrine compare --help.

Fetch

Run doctrine compare elicit --json; see doctrine compare elicit --help for --depth/--kind.

Entries share a spine — rank / kind / guaranteed_yield / guaranteed_impact / score / reasons / ask. Two kinds, different yield_basis semantics: