Comparison of our draft (טיוטה-v6, 2,126 words) against Dafna's final
decision (עריכה-v2, 2,299 words). 14 lessons (#20-#33) covering what
the draft got right and where she rebuilt the discussion.
Key findings:
- Lesson #20: Match doctrinal depth to legal uncertainty. In clean
acceptance the committee's OWN conditions provide the anchor — no
CREAC framework needed. The draft's 101-word "נבאר" doctrinal
paragraph was deleted entirely.
- Lesson #21: Plant analytical seeds in the background ("ודוק"
foreshadowing) for technical planning distinctions.
- Lesson #23: Concrete documentary evidence (specific permits in
buildings 5, 7, 11) beats generic statements.
- Lesson #25: Counter-factual reasoning — "approved by mistake" gives
the committee benefit of the doubt while strengthening reversal.
- Lesson #26: Engineer counter-factual — "had he known the shadow plan
was not feasible, his opposition would have been even stronger".
- Lesson #27: "אכן...אולם" / "לא נעלם מעינינו" patterns are for
rejection, NOT acceptance. Don't use prophylactically.
- Lesson #28: "ונפרט;" (ו prefix + semicolon), never "נפרט." with
period.
- Lesson #33: Full acceptance against permit applicant → no expenses
to either side.
New transition phrases catalogued: "דיון עקר", "אושרה מתוך טעות כי הרי
לא נוכל להניח כי אושרה למראית עין", "ועדת הערר אפשרה מרחב של זמן
בתקווה כי ההחלטה תתייתר", "להלן כדוגמא מתוך", "ברי כי הכוונה ל...".
Several of these lessons fed directly into daphna-acceptance-architecture.md
(template A) and daphna-decision-tree.md from the recent voice corpus
work; this file remains the case-study record.
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"בית ספר להחלטות" Phase 2 — the system now has formal analytical
methodology for building quasi-judicial decisions, separate from
Dafna's writing style (SKILL.md) and content checklists.
What was done:
- Downloaded 5 authoritative sources (~341K words): FJC Judicial
Writing Manual (1991+2020), Garner Legal Writing in Plain English,
Posner How Judges Think, Scalia/Garner Making Your Case
- Extracted principles from all sources into intermediate docs
- Synthesized into docs/decision-methodology.md (3,400 words,
12 sections, 10 guiding principles)
- Integrated methodology into block-yod prompt via {methodology_guidance}
- Restructured legal-writer agent workflow to follow analytical stages
- Made "answer all claims" flexible (bundle/skip via chair_directions)
- Added methodology compliance check (#7) to legal-qa agent
- Updated all knowledge files (CLAUDE.md, SKILL.md, lessons, corpus)
Three-layer architecture:
1. Methodology (decision-methodology.md) — universal, how to think
2. Content checklists (lessons.py) — specific per appeal subtype
3. Style (SKILL.md) — Dafna's personal writing patterns
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