# Prioritized User Stories

These stories describe desired user outcomes, not implementation details.

## P0 — foundational experience

1. As a returning Presence, I can enter one Realm and immediately understand the current Focus, why it matters, and what I can do next.
2. As a Presence, I can continue one conversation while the Studio introduces only the instrument or Element needed for the current work.
3. As a collaborator, I can make a decision with another person and relevant Sources without losing the thread of the work.
4. As a Presence, I can see when an action needs authority or confirmation before anything consequential happens.
5. As a Presence, I can understand what was decided or changed through a durable, attributable Record.
6. As a keyboard or reduced-motion user, I can access the same meaning and actions without relying on animation, color alone, or pointer precision.

## P0 — Realm intelligence and trust

7. As a patient, I can understand what authorized records document while seeing the limits of illustration, interpretation, diagnosis, and prediction.
8. As a clinician or authorized reviewer, I can identify what I reviewed, when, and within what scope.
9. As a participant reflecting privately, I can keep my conversation private unless I deliberately contribute an insight to a named collective scope.
10. As a collective participant, I can understand that shared learning reflects eligible contributions without exposing private conversation or inventing consensus.
11. As a veteran contributor, I can record an oral history while controlling visibility, redaction, release, and correction.
12. As a future researcher, I can understand the provenance and status of a historical contribution without mistaking recollection or reconstruction for verified fact.

## P1 — continuity and orientation

13. As a Presence, I can preview a Source or Element, expand it when necessary, and return to the same conversation and Focus.
14. As a Presence, I receive at most one quiet cross-Realm attention signal when another activity materially needs me.
15. As a collaborator, I can ask for normally hidden operational information and receive it in context without navigating to a generic dashboard.
16. As a Presence, I can move from the Outside web journey into the Studio with inviter, organization, and session context intact.

## Deferred pending later gates

- exceptional and recovery stories from Gate 2B.2;
- canonical Element lifecycle from Gate 3;
- Atlas and broad Field orientation from Gate 4;
- complete capability-pattern coverage from Gate 5;
- final visual/motion/conversation system from Gate 6;
- production-ready implementation stories from Gate 7.
