advisor

name	advisor
description	Anthropic Claude Advisor pattern — consulted at executor inflection points (low-confidence extraction, ambiguous dimensions, conflicting governance, unexplained drift) for strategic reframe rather than parameter-tuning.
user-invocable	false
allowed-tools	["Bash","Read"]

advisor — strategic reframe at inflection points

Anthropic's Claude Advisor pattern applied to CogSig's pipeline. Executor agents (extract, review, historian) are fast/local/cheap; they do routine work. When they hit an inflection — a moment where tuning-within-frame won't help because the FRAME is wrong — they pause and consult the advisor. Advisor reframes strategically in a short call; executor continues execution in the new frame.

Inflection classes

Class	Trigger	Where fired
low-confidence	any dimensions[x].confidence < 0.5 after extract	extract.py post-extraction
schema-soft-fail	jsonschema validation surfaces type-coercion / missing-subfield warnings	extract.py post-validate
conflicting-governance	Brutus=WEAK + QA=PASS + Historian=EXPECTED simultaneously	managed-agents/review.py post-review
drift-unexplained	Historian flags >2 dimensions drifted with no corpus-source change	historian analysis

What advisor DOES

• Reads the full context (signature draft, samples, review outputs, history)
• Identifies whether the executor's PROBLEM FRAMING is wrong, not just whether parameters need tuning
• Returns a short strategic reframe + concrete next action
• Advisor responses are 400-700 tokens (short), so cost is bounded even on Opus

What advisor does NOT do

• Doesn't retry the extraction itself
• Doesn't modify any files
• Doesn't override governance decisions
• Doesn't block executor — executor decides whether to act on reframe

Deploy modes — advisor runs across all

• Standalone — advisor fires automatically on trigger, user sees reframe output
• In-session team — advisor + governance agents both run; advisor consulted when governance agents conflict
• Cloud (Managed Agents) — advisor can itself be a Managed Agent (future) or standalone inline (current)

Scaffold precedent

This pattern emerged from prior internal work documenting cases where surfacing a model-rated decision-quality verdict at inflection points changes downstream behavior. Three validated instance types: rule-level fixes substituted for verbal-discipline; benchmark reframings; clarifying ambiguous mode boundaries. The pattern maps operationally to Anthropic's Claude Advisor tool (Haiku-executor + Opus-advisor pairing).