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Add a clearly marked simulation of bounded vs unbounded exchange #69

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Summary

Create a clearly marked website simulation that contrasts:

  • an unbounded free-text agent-to-agent exchange
  • a bounded AgentVault exchange

This should live on the marketing/documentation website, not in the live demo UI.

Why

We explored adding this comparison directly to the demo UI, but that risks undermining the demo's core value:

  • the demo is strongest when it is a real run
  • the centre panel should only show actual protocol execution
  • any counterfactual baseline is inherently interpretive or simulated

The website is a better place to make this point, because it can be clearly framed as an illustrative simulation rather than a live product run.

Requirements

  • must be explicitly labeled as a simulation / illustrative comparison
  • must not be presented as a second live agent run
  • should contrast:
    • what might leak in an unbounded exchange
    • what AgentVault reveals instead under a bounded contract
  • should use scenario-authored examples, not uncontrolled generated transcripts
  • should visually distinguish:
    • conversational / unbounded exchange
    • structured / receipt-backed bounded exchange

Suggested first scenarios

  • salary negotiation
  • co-founder mediation
  • employment reference
  • M&A compatibility

Non-goals

  • changing the live demo UI
  • introducing a second live agent loop
  • pretending the unbounded side is an actual recorded run

Context

Related work and notes:

  • agentvault#331 originally explored this in the demo UI
  • the design note lives in av-codex/docs/architecture/demo-comparison-mode-notes.md

The current direction is to keep the live demo pure and move any illustrative comparison into the website instead.

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