{
  "handle": "ExploreExploit",
  "mechanism": "Adaptive Allocation: Early in process, favor exploration (try new options, gather info). As deadline approaches, shift to exploitation (use best known option). Uncertainty reduction value decreases over time. Upper Confidence Bound: pick option with highest (estimate + uncertainty bonus). It monitors the remaining {{budget}} to dynamically adjust the epsilon parameter from exploration to exploitation.",
  "gloss": "Balancing information gathering vs value extraction",
  "failure_modes": [
    "Environment drift: The environment changes during the Exploit phase, making the best option obsolete."
  ],
  "invariants": [
    "Threshold immutable during execution."
  ],
  "parameters": [
    {
      "name": "decay_rate",
      "type": "Float",
      "range": "[0.9, 0.999]",
      "description": "Epsilon decay per iteration"
    },
    {
      "name": "epsilon",
      "type": "Float",
      "range": "[0.0, 1.0]",
      "description": "Exploration probability"
    }
  ],
  "_meta": {
    "tier": 2,
    "ring": 2,
    "supersedes": [
      "sema:ExploreExploit#mh:SHA-256:88b0c9b3824b0ab8a8fa33dbb75136563eae43481eb087e85f5db2e6db17f3de",
      "sema:ExploreExploit#mh:SHA-256:f92078e087337eb0456b24b966dfdf1fac46fd27a3d4457ae511d99d49e6f197",
      "sema:ExploreExploit#mh:SHA-256:d570a978bbe2ee888dac19898a228e4d7600422e7d85cea61da4e03e241880df"
    ],
    "path": [
      "Mind",
      "Strategy"
    ],
    "related": [
      "Valueprobe#7aa2"
    ]
  },
  "sema_id": "sema:ExploreExploit#mh:SHA-256:218caa1bcd426b768ebb675c78bc12e55581367814b2b2397383bb3e3e4dcdbc",
  "sema_ref": "ExploreExploit#218c",
  "sema_stub": "218c",
  "dependencies": {
    "references": {
      "budget": "sema:Budget#mh:SHA-256:4e3e536c9ecec8c1b0af017cfd0a26ba00e9f96047de4a690bf9d3db7f3720ef"
    }
  },
  "sema_layer": "Mind",
  "sema_category": "Strategy",
  "used_by": {
    "references": {
      "Valueprobe": "sema:Valueprobe#mh:SHA-256:7aa285f32033490cfd7b44a769d799505fb082dd30d2c90cd6685b651c5e84bf"
    }
  }
}