| CC-A10.1-1 (Source and claim). | A conforming use MUST name predecessor and later or replacement source epistemes, exact claim addresses or recoverable content, and unresolved identity or edition facts. | Prevents carrier or version labels from becoming source meaning. |
| CC-A10.1-2 (Material difference). | Material claim changes MUST be separated from wording, publication, carrier, layout, and revision-label changes; established compatible meaning, applicability and access MUST take the cheap stop. Missing comparison or access facts MUST remain a scoped limit rather than proof of no change. | Keeps harmless republishing cheap and one-word semantic changes visible. |
| CC-A10.1-3 (Bounded frame). | The present question, organizational or product boundary, receiving families, conditions, discovery surfaces, owners, and explicit exclusions MUST be stated before a clean no-impact conclusion. | Makes “where uses count” inspectable. |
| CC-A10.1-4 (Coverage and gaps). | When a search supports the returned impact conclusion, coverage MUST name exact identifiers and aliases, source-outward and receiver-oriented routes or a justified index covering both, included surfaces, and every unsearched, inaccessible, stale, unindexed, or identity-ambiguous surface. | Prevents omitted coverage from becoming evidence of no use. |
| CC-A10.1-5 (Direct reliance). | Every depends disposition MUST cite an exact receiving action or result and the direct premise, evidence-use, operation-argument, specification, decision-basis, or other relation by which it uses the changed claim. | Rejects mention, adjacency, and graph reachability as impact. |
| CC-A10.1-6 (Discovery dispositions). | A searched frame MUST distinguish dependent, irrelevant and unresolved candidates at the detail needed for its conclusion. Equivalent irrelevant mentions MAY be grouped; a separate exclusion record per mention is not required. Discovery values MUST NOT replace A.10 RelianceDisposition or a subject result. | Keeps discovery membership distinct from use admissibility and subject judgment. |
| CC-A10.1-7 (Action-changing closure). | Reach MUST follow only exact direct use relations and MUST stop after the last receiving action, condition, result, or check that can change. | Prevents transitive fanout. |
| CC-A10.1-8 (Dispatchable statement). | Every branch prepared for application of direct subject-pattern guidance MUST carry the changed claim, bounded frame, coverage and gaps, exact direct use, current conditions, action-changing reach, stop, and direct subject pattern. | Gives the applying practitioner or admitted System a usable input without a universal impact record. |
| CC-A10.1-9 (Subject governance). | Truth, evidence, causality, choice, currentness, assurance, authority, permission, release, planning, Work, and other subject results MUST remain governed by their direct patterns and continue to their existing consumers. | Prevents common discovery from becoming domain authority. |
| CC-A10.1-10 (Acyclic completion). | A common account summarizing a subject judgment MUST cite its independently governed result and MUST NOT be used as that result’s own input. A sufficient reference repair or direct result needs no additional account. | Preserves the changed source → subject result → completed account direction. |
| CC-A10.1-11 (Local summaries and reuse). | Local summaries of subject judgments MUST retain their subject basis. Inspected unaffected uses and earlier source/result values MUST remain recoverable for their stated conditions; a harmless reference repair requires no separate preservation judgment. | Avoids a shadow status ontology and needless invalidation. |
| CC-A10.1-12 (Honest stop). | Completion MUST meet the branch conditions in 4.7 for the conclusion actually returned. A no-impact claim requires adequate frame, coverage and actual-use support; unresolved coverage MUST NOT be called unaffected. Further records, Work and continuation fields are required only by the receiving use. | Makes local closure reproducible without claiming global completeness. |