A.16:8 - Consequences

Benefits. Practitioners can advance or retreat without inventing maturity, Work, publication, or authority claims. The three identity cases prevent both false continuity and needless successor creation. A small note remains useful on its own; A.16.0 opens when history is load-bearing, while E.18 requires its independently selected transformation-flow subject.

Trade-off. A consequential move needs explicit guards and preservation content. The mitigation is one canonical move table, one note schema, one history threshold, and one checklist rather than repeated packages.

Failure containment. A missing endpoint rule, Work relation, publication occurrence, lineage predicate, or actual authority relation blocks only that additional claim. The cue and any independently admitted earlier publication remain available.