Frame the term before the trick
The fastest field failure is showing the advanced move while readers are still guessing what the nouns mean. A prompt fixture, dry run, receipt, confidence bucket, and abstention branch each need a plain-language definition before the walkthrough begins.
Use the Dictionary connection as a framing move: introduce the term, point to the public definition surface, ask readers to predict the failure mode, and only then run the demonstration.
This changes the guide's job from explaining a magic trick to naming a repeatable mechanism. Once the term is stable, readers can transfer it to a new model, tool, or workflow.
A shared glossary lowers the cost of every later explanation.
Aha moment
The vocabulary is part of the interface. If the term is unstable, the walkthrough is unstable.
Try this
Start each framing block by naming three terms readers must understand before they watch the model behavior.
Watch for
- Readers copying a workflow while using the key term differently
- Demos that rely on undefined platform language
- Definitions introduced only after confusion appears