CC-A11.OP-1 Governed requirement | One proposed mandatory requirement, one declared use, and one nearest substantive horizon are recognizable. |
CC-A11.OP-2 Substantive receiver | The justification reaches a named subject decision, receiving use, selected result, assurance use, or recovery use; the requirement’s own route state is not its receiver. |
CC-A11.OP-3 Three-branch comparison | Keeping and removing the requirement have been compared through decision-changing result, selected realization, and assurance or recoverability preservation. |
CC-A11.OP-4 Material plausibility | Each claimed difference has the basis appropriate to its subject, evidence, risk, causal, decision, or assurance claim; bare logical possibility and information volume are insufficient. |
CC-A11.OP-5 Deterministic realization | A required deterministic step is retained when it realizes the already selected result without fabricated outcome branches. |
CC-A11.OP-6 Delayed decision value | For an inquiry proposed for a later decision or reliance, at least one materially plausible result reaches that named use inside the horizon. This contribution is not sufficient to require acquisition; a live inquiry decision also establishes obtainability and worthwhile contribution under its direct owner. |
CC-A11.OP-7 Assurance boundary | A retained assurance or recovery action names the relied-on condition and its direct owner; that owner establishes the floor and evidential basis. |
CC-A11.OP-8 Disposition boundary | Passing a branch establishes contribution only. The final disposition uses the applicable choice, realization, assurance or authority basis; appraisal of a requirement’s merits remains separate from its current force. |
CC-A11.OP-9 Light result | Ordinary use ends in the direct one-sentence disposition; a durable result uses an existing record kind required by a named later use. |
CC-A11.OP-10 Direct-owner return | Each downstream claim remains with the direct pattern named in Relations and is obtained from that pattern by value. |
CC-A11.OP-11 Reopen condition | The disposition names or makes recoverable which change in horizon, result, transformation, duty, reliance, or alternative can reopen it. |
CC-A11.OP-12 Theory boundary | Epistemic value and a counterfactual horizon may inform the comparison. Expected free energy, variational free energy, and Hamiltonian least action do not supply a universal engineering admission rule. |