Description

Layer external/historical context onto each interview: who the interviewee was at the time, the conference and its moment, the state of the topic in that era (2010-2015), and how it reads now. This feeds the “lessons for now” framing and followup questions. Context must be sourced/citable, not hallucinated — flag where uncertain.

Acceptance Criteria

• #1 Each interview carries interviewee + era + conference context fields
• #2 A “lessons for now” framing is derived per interview
• #3 Context is sourced/citable and flagged where uncertain
• #4 It renders on the interview/interviewee pages (structure/presentation only)

Implementation Plan

Hard constraints

• Generation routes ONLY through the extended audit prompt (TASK-251) OR a zdots distill job — NEVER a new bin/*enrichment.rb (that is the exact direct-LLM anti-pattern TASK-242 retires).
• Primary directive: user owns content. External “who they were in 2012 / state of the field then” context WILL hallucinate. 255 delivers the cited CONTAINER + uncertain:true slots + rendering; the USER supplies/verifies external prose + citations. Every external claim must carry sources:[] OR uncertain:true — never assert unsourced fact.

Work

1. Populate the context: block 251 defined (AC#1) — era/conference/topic/interviewee, each {summary, sources:[], uncertain}, plus lessons_for_now (AC#2).
   • Transcript-grounded parts come from the audit pass (251).
   • External/historical parts: draft via a zdots distill job (allowed job type) that emits CANDIDATES flagged uncertain:true with empty sources for human verification — a scaffold, not asserted fact (AC#3).
2. Validator (AC#3): wire into validate:all — every context.*.summary must have sources.size > 0 OR uncertain:true.
3. Idempotency / merge (review-surface trap): the context block is human-curated (user adds sources, clears uncertain). Regeneration MUST merge by field — never overwrite a field the user has verified (uncertain:false or has sources). Preserve human edits on rerun.
4. Rendering — structure/presentation only (AC#4):
   • _layouts/interview.html (data already wired L7-13 via site.data.all_archive_items + transcript): new “Context & Lessons” <section> — era/conference/topic summaries, “Lessons for now” list, followup questions; each summary shows citation links from sources; render a visible “unverified” marker when uncertain:true.
   • _layouts/interviewee_detail.html: person-scoped interviewee-context blurb with the same citation/uncertain treatment.
   • Honor CLAUDE.md: semantic markup, WCAG, print/ATS-friendly; never render an unsourced claim as fact — uncertain items visibly flagged.

Verify

Run distill draft on 2-3 slugs; validator green (no unsourced-unflagged claim); interview + interviewee pages render era/conf/topic/interviewee + lessons with citations + uncertain badges; rerun preserves a manually-verified field; rake build + htmlproofer clean.

Definition of Done

• #1 AC criteria is completed and the change has been verified