A.3.1:3 - Forces

• A method has enough identity stability to support comparison, reuse, teaching, improvement, and audit across many runs.
• Work still happens in dated situations with exact performer assignments, actual participants, resource uses, conditions, and separately governed effects; a method statement establishes none of those occurrence-side facts.
• Method descriptions can be executable, formal, graphical, procedural, declarative, or hybrid; publication form alone does not decide the method ontology.
• Mechanisms and mathematical substrates often make a method explainable or constrained enough to rely on, but the mechanism claim and the method claim still answer different project questions.
• A useful method statement remains applicable to welding, clinical triage, proof construction, optimization, agent orchestration, lab protocols, software execution, and organizational work without making software notation the default model of method.