Canonical baselines (synthetic exemplars)

This directory is reserved for agent-authored synthetic exemplars — what a passing eval verdict looks like. Exemplars must contain NO real model output, NO real persona responses, NO operator-specific brain content: PII-impossible by construction. None are committed yet; whoever lands the first ones must also fix the parent .gitignore (its !canonical/ pattern doesn't unignore files inside the directory — it needs !canonical/*.json).

Once landed, use them as:

Code-review reference — when reviewing changes to judge.mjs or the persona prompts, eyeball these to see what the receipt schema looks like.
Onboarding — new contributors can read these to understand what the eval suite produces without spending API tokens.
Schema documentation — the field shape is the contract that live receipts must match.

Never commit live receipts here. Live receipts go in ../ (gitignored). The canonical/ subdirectory is the ONLY committed eval output in the entire bundle.

If the eval harness changes its receipt schema, regenerate exemplars by authoring the JSON to match the new schema — do NOT generate them by running the harness against the real personas.