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Benjamin Admin 98d616d82b feat: Observation Model — the empirical learning unit, defined BEFORE persistence (Task 59a)
The learning point is not the hypothesis, it is the QUESTION — and confirmed/refuted is too coarse.
"partial, only critical suppliers" or "certified but not lived" are not "wrong", they are valuable
knowledge. So the chain is Hypothesis -> Question -> Observation -> (Review) -> Hypothesis, and the
observation model must be defined cleanly before any store/API (else thousands of too-coarse
observations get migrated later).

compliance/onboarding/observations.py:
  - ObservationType: confirmed / partial / refuted / not_applicable / unknown (richer than binary).
  - Observation: {hypothesis_id, capability, question, answer (free text), observation_type,
    scope_note ("only critical suppliers"), evidence_uploaded, reviewed, reviewed_by}.
  - empirical_distribution() -> a DISTRIBUTION (confirmed 61 / partial 31 / refuted 8), not one %.
  - empirical_confidence() -> (confirmed + 0.5*partial) / (confirmed+partial+refuted); n.a./unknown
    excluded; None until calibrated.
  - REVIEW GATE: only reviewed observations calibrate — a raw answer never changes a hypothesis (no
    learning from outliers).

Refactor: the hypothesis is now PURE curated knowledge — the binary observations counter and any
confidence are removed from CapabilityHypothesis and the YAML; confidence is COMPUTED from the separate
reviewed observation stream. Pure, mypy --strict clean. Persistence/aggregation/calibration are 59b/c/d.
Non-runtime -> no deploy. 12 tests pass, check-loc 0.
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"""Observation Model — the empirical learning unit (Task 59a: model BEFORE persistence/API).
The learning point is NOT the hypothesis, it is the QUESTION. A hypothesis ("ISO 27001 suggests supplier
management") produces a question ("Is there a documented supplier-security process?"), and the answer is
rarely binary — "yes" / "no" / "partial, only critical suppliers" / "certified but not lived" are very
different observations. So the chain is:
Hypothesis -> Question -> Observation -> (Review) -> Hypothesis
Two principles (durable):
- Richer than confirmed/refuted: an Observation carries an `observation_type` (confirmed / partial /
refuted / not_applicable / unknown), a free-text answer, a scope_note ("only critical suppliers"),
and whether evidence was uploaded.
- REVIEW GATE: a raw answer NEVER changes a hypothesis directly. Only REVIEWED observations calibrate;
otherwise the system learns from outliers. Hypotheses stay curated knowledge; confidence is COMPUTED
from the reviewed observation stream (keyed by hypothesis id), not stored on the hypothesis.
This module defines the model + the deterministic statistics it enables (a DISTRIBUTION, not a single
%). Persistence (store), aggregation across customers and hypothesis calibration are later tasks
(59b/c/d). Pure, no I/O. Python 3.9 compatible.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
from enum import Enum
from typing import Dict, List, Optional, Sequence
from pydantic import BaseModel, Field
class ObservationType(str, Enum):
CONFIRMED = "confirmed"
PARTIAL = "partial"
REFUTED = "refuted"
NOT_APPLICABLE = "not_applicable"
UNKNOWN = "unknown"
class Observation(BaseModel):
"""One real-onboarding answer to one hypothesis-driven question. The raw empirical unit."""
hypothesis_id: str
capability: str = "" # denormalised for convenient aggregation
question: str = "" # the question that was actually asked
answer: str = "" # the customer's raw answer (free text)
observation_type: ObservationType = ObservationType.UNKNOWN
scope_note: Optional[str] = None # "only critical suppliers" / "only DE" / "not lived"
evidence_uploaded: bool = False
reviewed: bool = False # the review gate: only reviewed obs calibrate
reviewed_by: Optional[str] = None
# observation types that count as evidence for/against the capability (n/a + unknown do not)
_FOR_AGAINST = (ObservationType.CONFIRMED, ObservationType.PARTIAL, ObservationType.REFUTED)
def empirical_distribution(
observations: Sequence[Observation], reviewed_only: bool = True
) -> Dict[str, int]:
"""Count observations per type — the DISTRIBUTION (e.g. confirmed 61 / partial 31 / refuted 8),
far richer than a single percentage. By default only REVIEWED observations count (the review gate)."""
dist = {t.value: 0 for t in ObservationType}
for o in observations:
if o.reviewed or not reviewed_only:
dist[o.observation_type.value] += 1
return dist
def empirical_confidence(
observations: Sequence[Observation], reviewed_only: bool = True
) -> Optional[float]:
"""Confidence from the reviewed stream: (confirmed + 0.5*partial) / (confirmed+partial+refuted).
`not_applicable` and `unknown` are excluded from the denominator (they are not evidence either way).
`None` until any for/against observation is reviewed — never an expert/LLM score."""
dist = empirical_distribution(observations, reviewed_only)
base = dist[ObservationType.CONFIRMED.value] + dist[ObservationType.PARTIAL.value] + dist[ObservationType.REFUTED.value]
if base == 0:
return None
return round((dist[ObservationType.CONFIRMED.value] + 0.5 * dist[ObservationType.PARTIAL.value]) / base, 2)
def reviewed(observations: Sequence[Observation]) -> List[Observation]:
"""The calibration set: only reviewed observations (a raw answer never updates a hypothesis)."""
return [o for o in observations if o.reviewed]