Catalog Trends

Why this exists

Some course catalogs carry their own strategic signals that should shape course framing without replacing the topic itself. These signals are called catalog trends.

A catalog trend is not the course topic and not the learner persona. It is a contextual driver that explains why the topic matters now inside a specific catalog logic.

Examples:

  • a municipality catalog may signal that transparency is becoming the default expectation;
  • another catalog may signal legal pressure, political fragmentation, or digital modernization;
  • a future catalog may carry completely different trend sets and different learner personas.

This document defines how catalog trends should be stored and used in Fraya's prompt layer.

Catalog trends are framing signals.

They should influence:

  • urgency and practical relevance;
  • examples and scenarios;
  • operational implications and trade-offs;
  • which parts of the topic deserve more emphasis.

Catalog trends should not:

  • replace the course topic;
  • override the legal, conceptual, or methodological foundations of the course;
  • turn the course into a broad commentary on the trend itself.

Source-of-truth rule

Raw trend labels come from the catalog inputs.

Repository-backed trend interpretation lives in the prompt layer via:

  • prompts/injections/catalog_trends.yaml

The raw catalog label is used as the routing key. The injection expands that label into a stable runtime-facing trend block that downstream prompts can consume directly.

Current curated entries

The current repository-backed implementation includes the full Dutch trend set for:

Catalog: municipalities_nl_2026

  • all major theme headings from the source;
  • development statements (Ontwikkeling: ...);
  • common catalog label aliases derived from the same Dutch source logic, such as narrower labels for specific sub-signals inside a broader trend cluster.

The repository-backed registry groups these labels into runtime-facing trend blocks so downstream prompts receive one stable interpretation per selected trend signal.

Catalog: municipalities_de_2026

  • all major trend headings from the German strategic memo source;
  • all cross-cutting competency themes used as catalog trends in the German set;
  • source-backed English wording kept aligned with the memo rather than translated or reinterpreted.
  • prompts/injections/catalog_trends.yaml
  • prompts/utility/tool_utility_resolve_trend.yaml
  • prompts/depository/flow_depository_plan.yaml
  • prompts/depository/flow_depository_fill.yaml
  • prompts/course_structure/flow_course_structure_concept.yaml

Related injection

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