# Phase XI — Thoughts In, Pulses Out

## Input design

The public interface remains one natural-language field:

**What are you wondering about?**  
*Begin with a thought.*

As the reader types, the interface extracts up to ten **Fragments I can follow**.

The fragments are feedback, not inputs. The reader does not have to compose a ten-word query for a machine.

Bare keywords remain accepted for robustness, but the interface gently says:

> Fragments are enough. A fuller thought usually gives the path more shape.

## Journey ending

A saved Path is complete when the current reader has reached the final spread of every Book in that Path. Portal detours do not invalidate it.

Pressing Next after the final spread then reaches:

**You reached the end of this path.**

Then:

**What stayed with you?**

The reader may:
- leave one Pulse;
- leave nothing;
- rewrite their existing Pulse later.

Only completed readers can leave a Pulse.

## Pulse social layer

Pulses are traces, not comments.

There are deliberately:
- no points;
- no likes;
- no dislikes;
- no public ranking;
- no comments during a Book.

A reader may personally **Hide** a Pulse. That removes it from that reader's future views without deleting it for anyone else.

Pulses never feed directly into canon or route weights.

The demo uses no AI moderation. Free text is safely escaped before display. A real public deployment should still maintain a narrow legal/safety enforcement floor distinct from taste moderation.

## Shared Paths

A shared Path now displays:
- how many readers reached the end;
- how many left a Pulse;
- a horizontal after-image stream of visible Pulses.

That gives sharing social proof without turning The Being into a social network.
