A.16.1:19 - Cue-Pack Continuation and Comparative Preservation Rule

A.16.1:19.1 - Continuation visibility

A cue pack should make visible which continuations apply: keeping the cue open, later route publication, a split or merge of cue packs, or retirement of the exact cue, publication, or branch.

A.16.1:19.2 - Preservation worthiness test

Keep a cue pack only when its nucleus would likely be lost or distorted without it. If the same cue already lives stably in a later receiving form with more closure, a published route selection, and any needed endpoint-use disposition, the cue pack may have become redundant.

A.16.1:19.3 - Comparative preservation rule

Compare cue packs only when nuclei, primary witness choice, primary anchor choice, and any early directional hints are explicit. Emotional intensity, rhetorical urgency, or author confidence are not admissible comparison proxies.