A.10.1:9 - Consequences

Benefits. Source changes receive effort proportional to their actual use. Teams can preserve inspected unaffected results, expose undeclared dependencies, continue clean branches despite a local gap, and apply the correct governing pattern to each affected question while preserving its evidence and authority boundaries. The account remains usable without a mandatory graph, matrix, workflow, or new ontology.

Costs and limits. Claim-sized comparison and receiver-oriented inspection require judgment. Coverage can be expensive when repositories are fragmented or access is restricted. The method makes those limits visible; it cannot convert incomplete access into assurance. A genuinely broad claim with many actual consumers can still produce broad revalidation.

Failure containment. A missing source fact, unresolved direct relation, inaccessible surface, or subject blocker narrows or blocks only the affected frame or branch. It neither invalidates unrelated uses nor supports a global unaffected-use claim.