classify-simplicity-evidence
Purpose
Classify explanatory compression as earned, weak, or decorative.
Input contract
yamlrequired: [explanation, covered_facts, alternatives, predictions] optional: [evidence] constraints: [facts and alternatives must be independently listed]
Procedure
- Check whether independent facts are compressed.
- Check whether alternatives are forbidden and predictions constrained.
- Classify earned, weak, or decorative and preserve rationale.
If simplicity provides discriminating support only through a vulnerable consequence, consider test-risky-prediction as the next tactic.
Output contract
yamlproduces: [simplicity_class, compression_evidence, missing_constraints] delta_fields: [findings, evidence_updates, uncertainties, decisions]
Quality gates
- Decorative simplicity is a relabeling with no independent compression or risky prediction.
Failure and counterexamples
Do not classify by description length or elegance alone.
Provenance map
- resolved: elegance-trap-probe


