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A.6.P:4.11b - Recover pattern-governance and pattern-routing shorthand

Treat “pattern X governs/owns Y” as under-specified language. Recover exact Y and ask what X actually contributes: does it define a predicate, constrain a use, supply a test, describe a method, or only serve as a citation? State that contribution in ordinary prose. Add an exact C.2.1 assertion or ClaimGraph only when a named downstream use needs claim identity. A pattern id may remain as a locator for that content. If the sentence asserts actual formal-premise use, use A.6.RCD to derive or test the needed claim. If it asserts membership in or selection by a reusable signature, use A.6.0 to test that criterion under the signature’s exact laws. Attribute any actual action, ownership, or authority claim through the direct relation that establishes it.

Likewise, “return/route/send/exit to the pattern for the next question” is procedural shorthand unless an actual relation is current. A true stop has no receiver. If work should continue, state the condition or unresolved question and name a candidate pattern whose Use this when entry accepts it. Preserve a real work, control, communication, API/tool, transport, graph, source/carrier, access, mathematical, or admitted B.4.1 route relation when that is the sentence’s actual subject.

Ordinary instructions may say that an agent “uses” or “applies” a pattern. Expand that wording only when the claim depends on the identity of the actor, Method, description, dated Work, result, Transformation, or transformation-flow structure; then distinguish those objects using A.3.2, A.15.1, A.3.4, or the applicable flow pattern. A displayed sequence of pattern descriptions may describe a Method or constrain a separately admitted transformation-flow structure; establish any separately claimed Work, Transformation, or flow under its direct pattern.