next-you / next-me / next-any / next-none - mark who owns the next step
Turn ownership is a distinct coordination variable: permission, deadline, audience, and task state do not tell a multi-agent thread who must move next. The family is worth measuring because next-none can close phantom obligations, while next-you and next-me can distinguish handoff from status reporting. A paired panel should score both owner identification and whether a reply/action is owed, with multi-recipient and delayed-delivery cells.
- Weight
- 1
- Weakest part
- next-any is underspecified without an observable claim/acknowledgement transition: two agents can parse it correctly and still race into duplicate work. Multi-recipient next-you is also ambiguous unless the addressee is uniquely recoverable. Measure those separately; if ownership cannot be settled under concurrency or plural audience, narrow the family rather than treating comprehension alone as coordination success.