A.10.1:4.1 - Perform the Nine-Step Move

1. Start from the changed source, not a presumed receiver. Name the predecessor and later or replacement source epistemes, the claim set whose change may matter, and the present question that bounds the search. Leave source identity, edition continuity, access, or applicability unresolved when the required fact is missing.
2. Compare claims rather than files. Separate changes in proposition, subject, scope, applicability, assumptions, limits, evidence status, and effective conditions from wording, layout, publication, carrier, and revision-label changes. If comparison establishes compatible meaning, applicability and access, finish with any needed reference repair. If comparison cannot establish them, return the material gap; neither branch requires a multi-use search merely to record its stop.
3. Select a receiving-use search frame. Use the search-frame fields in 4.3 to state where a receiving use would count for the present question.
4. State reproducible discovery coverage. Name the exact source identifiers, claim addresses and aliases used; the included search surfaces; the source-outward and receiver-oriented routes; and every unsearched, inaccessible, stale, unindexed, or identity-ambiguous surface.
5. Discover and then name candidate receiving uses. Use search, citations, lineage, traces, indexes, owner knowledge, or tools to find candidates. Inspect the receiving content and recover the exact premise, evidence-use, operation-argument, specification, decision-basis, or other direct relation. Discovery alone establishes no reliance.
6. Classify and bound reach. Distinguish actual dependence, irrelevant mentions and unresolved uses within the searched frame. Group equivalent irrelevant mentions when one inspected reason covers them. Retain the direct-use basis and gaps that can change the receiving conclusion, without a separate exclusion record for each mention. Follow a depends branch only through another exact use relation while a receiving action can change. Supply the discovery-and-reach content needed by each subject judgment.
7. Apply the direct subject pattern’s guidance. Use the discovery-and-reach statement to apply that guidance to the changed claim, exact direct use, current conditions, affected reach, coverage limits, and material subject facts. The practitioner or admitted System carrying out that application may find that the proposed dependence must be narrowed or rejected or that stronger evidence is required. Use adequate existing evidence and return the supported subject result or its scoped blocker directly to its existing consumers. Further inquiry is selected for the receiving question; a discovery gap alone does not commission Work.
8. Supply a common account when a receiver needs it. A sufficient direct subject result can finish the use. If another receiving question needs an overview, cite the independently governed results and summarize only the consequences it needs. That summary neither replaces those results nor changes A.10 RelianceDisposition.
9. Stop at the completed receiving answer. Apply the branch conditions in 4.7. Preserve the coverage and direct-use basis needed for the conclusion actually returned, including material gaps. Name a next actor or reopen observation when the receiving use needs that continuation. An unresolved independent branch need not delay a completed one.

This numbered presentation is an A.22.CGUS learning unfolding, not a lifecycle and not a mandatory sequence of U.Work. Discovery, source recovery, subject inquiry, and communication may overlap. Only the information dependencies in the move impose order.