B.5.2.1:9 - Context‑Level KPIs (optional, informative)
Contexts may monitor these—not as gates, but to improve practice:
- Profile-specific assurance progression (optional). When a receiving domain uses an assurance-level profile, report the fraction of cycles whose candidate meets a named level under that profile within the policy window. Name the claim, use and satisfying evidence; omit this KPI when no such profile is used.
- Frontier‑Hit Rate (FHR). % of cycles where the chosen candidate lies on the Pareto front over the declared
DominanceSetat selection time; track novelty/diversity contribution separately as archive, tie-break, or policy-promoted evidence. - Coverage Gain (ΔI, report). Change in the illumination summary (coverage map/%filled cells) per cycle (how much of the descriptor space is now “lit”).
- Exploration Cost Ratio (ECR). Compute/time spent in NQD‑Generate divided by downstream Shape/Evidence cost saved (tracks whether the pattern pays for itself).
- Refutation Learning Yield (RLY). Among refuted candidates, % that added new coverage or raised SurpriseScore—turning “failures” into map‑building.