Requirements

All of it, on a definition that is now stated rather than inferred. A rising expert is a person with a sustained topic signal on a topic, with no limit on how many papers they have published on it (OQ-13). The flag therefore reads the OQ-06 topic score and nothing else: no career-stage filter, no publication-count filter, no years-since-first-paper window. The cut-off is the top 1.4 percent of topic scores within a disease area, held in configuration because the validation study of OQ-27 replaces it with a measured one (NP-15).

Still held. Nothing. The 1.4 percent is a real bound with a real source, and it is deliberately interim: it comes from the August 2026 outside-read note, which measured that rate across conversations rather than across people, and the validation study replaces it rather than ratifies it.

Released by OQ-13, OQ-06, NP-15.

All of it. The activity-over-time display was always buildable; what was missing was the judgement it leads to. A rising, steady or falling reading now comes from the topic score's movement, on the definition OQ-13 gives and the cut-off NP-15 sets, with the percentile held in configuration so the validation study can replace it without a code change.

Still held. Nothing by a question. One constraint survives and is worth keeping in sight: the movement shown is the score's, so a change in the score's inputs is a change in the reading, and the interface should say which period it covers rather than implying a trajectory the data does not carry.

Released by OQ-13, NP-15.