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# Change log: Corvid revision 1 (orchestrator)

Base: the author's drafts in `corvid/drafts/`, which are left unchanged. Decisions: `corvid/triage.md`.

## Cover letter
- **Address (E3):** now addressed to the "Corvid Labs hiring team," per rule 10.
- **Date:** replaced with a submission-date placeholder.
- **Opening (U1):** now names the source, Corvid's March engineering blog post.
- **Relay paragraph:**
  - "Code" becomes "label," and qualifications are glossed as a hedge or caveat (U11).
  - The configuration error is described in plainer words and no longer copies the résumé (U7, E2).
  - The paper is now "a paper reporting the Relay experiments," under review "in its first round" (F1, rule 8).
- **Parallel paragraph (U6):** no longer assumes the graders are wrong. It says that in Relay the hand labels were treated as the reference, and that for Corvid, whether raters can be the reference is part of the open question.
- **Approach paragraph:** dropped "settle with customers," a claim about Corvid's process that no reader asked for. Everything else is kept.
- **Kestrel paragraph (E1):** rewritten. It is now tied to the head of research's "a score that measures the wrong thing" and no longer restates the résumé bullet.
- **Varrow talk sentence:** cut. It restated the résumé (rule 10), and cutting it frees room on the page (E8). This also resolves the venue mismatch (E6).
- **Both content placeholders kept (U2, U3):** they need Jordan's answers.
- **Length:** 529 words. Text ends at 83% of the page, leaving about six lines for Jordan's answers before the bottom margin.

## Résumé
- **Independent researcher line (U9):** dropped "no employer." The title already conveys it, and the phrase sat awkwardly beside the client rehearsal.
- **Relay bullets (U11, U7):** "code" becomes "label," qualifications are glossed as hedges and caveats, and "model-access route" becomes "the route through which agents reached their models."
- **No other changes.** The résumé is still 2 pages.

## Checks run on the revision
The editorial reviewer's script was rerun against `revised/` from a temporary copy with the path changed. Results:
- 0 dashes, semicolons, contractions, banned words, and British spellings.
- One serif family and black text only.
- The letter is 1 page and the résumé 2 pages.
- The PDF text matches the .txt files.

This revision has not been re-reviewed.

## Still needed from Jordan
1. What was done with the qualification labels.
2. Whether agreement between Jordan and the research assistant was measured.
3. How the pricing client work relates to "self-funded, no employer."
4. Months for all dates, contact details, and the submission date.
5. Confirmation that the AoM 2019 talk was competitively selected, not invited.