Could This Meeting Be An Email?

1/**
2 * Could This Meeting Be An Email?
3 * Pattern: threshold gate on a score, with an "unsure" band.
4 *
5 * A score question rates the invite on a 0–4 rubric. The gate passes at 2.5,
6 * and anything within 0.4 of the bar takes a third, more nuanced path instead
7 * of flipping a coin at the boundary.
8 */
9import { emit, gate, noul, score } from "jevchain";
10import type { Example } from "./types";
11 
12export const meetingEmail = gate("needs-a-meeting", {
13  title: "Does this need a meeting?",
14  ask: score("How much does this meeting need people talking live, in real time?", [
15    "Could be a Slack message",
16    "Could be an email",
17    "Could be a doc with comments",
18    "A short call would help",
19    "Must be live: a real decision, a conflict, or brainstorming",
20  ]),
21  alsoAsk: { agenda: noul("Does the invite include a clear agenda or goal?") },
22  pass: { min: 2.5 },
23  then: emit("Keep it. Maybe make it 25 minutes. You deserve 5 minutes of silence.", { id: "keep" }),
24  otherwise: emit("Decline with a doc link and a smile. Reclaim your afternoon.", { id: "decline" }),
25  unsure: { margin: 0.4, then: emit("Counter-offer: 15 minutes, agenda first, cameras optional.", { id: "counter-offer" }) },
26});
27 
28export const example: Example = {
29  slug: "meeting-email",
30  title: "Could This Meeting Be An Email?",
31  tagline: "Finally, a calibrated answer to the oldest question in corporate life.",
32  pattern: "Threshold gate + unsure band",
33  lesson:
34    "Gate on a score or probability, and give borderline cases their own path. A decision near the bar is a different decision, not a coin flip.",
35  chain: meetingEmail,
36  file: "meeting-email.ts",
37  inputs: [
38    {
39      label: "Weekly sync",
40      value: { title: "Weekly sync", description: "Going around the room with status updates.", attendees: 14, minutes: 60 },
41    },
42    {
43      label: "Incident retro",
44      value: {
45        title: "Checkout outage retro",
46        description: "Agenda: timeline (10m), root cause debate (20m), decide on the fix and owner (15m). Payments + infra must attend.",
47        attendees: 6,
48        minutes: 45,
49      },
50    },
51    {
52      label: "Quick question",
53      value: { title: "Quick question", description: "", attendees: 2, minutes: 30 },
54    },
55  ],
56};