Major changes ship after public comment.
Every change to the rubric, the scoring pipeline, the public API contract, or pricing opens here as an RFC and stays open for at least 7 days. You read it. You email comments. We resolve it in public.
What counts as “major”
- Any change to the Lyric Scoring Standard (rubric, weights, anti-inflation rules)
- Any breaking change to a public API contract
- Any change to pricing, tier limits, or refund policy
- Any change to the data we collect or how we use it
Voltage Coach behavior change policy
Defines what counts as a "behavior change" to the voltage coach (B1291) — kind classification, hint copy, accept-rate triggers — and pins the publication discipline for each. Empirical input cite the B1346 kind-breakdown surface that landed earlier this session.
Read the RFCGPT-4o pre-gauntlet critique as Sonnet gauntlet input
Adds a second GPT-4o call to the pipeline — this time as a literary critic rather than a re-scorer. Output feeds the Sonnet gauntlet as additional evidence the gauntlet decision-rule incorporates or rejects. Cost: ~$0.04/forge. Off-by-default behind SF_GPT4O_PREGAUNTLET. Operator-driven request: "should ChatGPT be used more than we are using it?"
Read the RFCHum Score as the M11 (Memorability) calibration signal
The 24-hour-delayed Hum Test (B1303) is the only longitudinal-recall signal we have. This RFC proposes formally treating the systematic delta between fresh-M11 and Hum-M11 as the calibration ground truth for the Memorability metric, with quarterly rubric adjustments triggered when the corpus-wide median delta exceeds ±5pts.
Read the RFCAnti-Platitude rule (5th anti-inflation rule, v1.1.0)
Lines that resolve with generic emotional summaries ("all I need is love", "this is my truth", "love wins") hit the lowest Specificity + Voice band regardless of surface polish. Documented inline so implementers cite a published rule rather than discover it empirically.
Read the RFCRubric versioning policy (v1.x cadence + diff format)
How the Lyric Scoring Standard versions: when a bump happens, what gets published with it, and how third parties verify which rubric scored their lyrics.
Read the RFC