persona-steering-template-library/docs/reviews/quick_scroll_panel_2026-06-25.md

Quick-Scroll README Panel, 2026-06-25

Prompt: cold-read the README as a busy new ML researcher who wants to do steering, may not know this repo, and has time for a quick scroll.

Five of six panel runs completed. One run was interrupted while the layout bug was being fixed.

Repeated findings:

• Add a top quick-start/action path before the conceptual explanation.
• Caption the main plot with axes, color, and how to read a good point.
• Explain score t and judge_std near the Results table.
• Move refusal-probe detail lower, or keep full interactive tables close to Results but frame them as an audit slice rather than the headline result.
• Shorten or demote appendices for first-time readers.

Representative reviewer fragments:

"the opening 'What This Measures' section dives into detailed motivation and an example before giving the reader a direct action path"

"The plot caption is weak: it says 'The plot below shows the measured normal-scenario template results' without explaining axes, scales, or point meaning."

"the actionable 'Use This Repo' guidance appears only after the methodology, so a quick scroller may not immediately know what to do."

Edits made from the panel:

• Added Quick Start at the top.
• Shortened the start of What This Measures.
• Replaced the weak plot lead-in with a real caption.
• Added the judge_std legend next to the Results table.
• Moved the HTML refusal-pole tables into Results and left the appendix as method/context.