A.6.RCD:7 - Conformance Checklist

1. Blocked use. The exact claim, check, decision, or continuation under repair is named.
2. Participants first. Actual referents and relation-participant meanings are recovered before constructor or notation choice.
3. Direct-predicate stop. A.6.P recovers the current subject predicate before compound derivation begins. If that predicate can state the needed affirmative, negative, or exact rule-qualified modal claim, use it and stop. If no needed predicate, applicability condition, or occurrence rule exists, return missing-governor; if the governor exists and the available case basis is sufficient to apply its positive test but that test fails, return factually unsupported; if a fact needed to decide the test is unavailable, return missing-information. A negative additionally needs an applicable non-obtaining criterion or complete closure basis and facts that satisfy it.
4. Exact base. Every base predicate names the exact pattern content or declaration that defines it and its obtaining law. The current case separately supplies the relevant facts or constituting history; an assertion or representation does not turn that rule into an obtaining occurrence.
5. Substrate authority. Every used constructor has semantics in the selected substrate; nontrivial, interoperable, proof-bearing, or reusable derivation pins the substrate and edition.
6. Replay. One positive case, one discriminating failure case, and the receiving-use replay agree.
7. Lightest disposition. Exactly one of the four dispositions closes the current use; later branches are not opened by habit.
8. Claim polarity and occurrence boundary. Direct and compound assertions may be affirmative, negative, or rule-qualified modal claims. The subject predicate defines the test, current case facts or constituting history determine its satisfaction, and the assertion states the result without creating an occurrence. The three blocker phrases in section 0.1 remain distinct and are not predicate values. Use A.6.REL only when a satisfied affirmative case has an occurrence whose identity a named use consumes.
9. Definition identity and reuse boundary. A subject-bounded compound-law episteme names the exact subject as its EntityOfConcern and states that reuse does not travel to another subject. A genuinely reusable predicate-definition episteme names the exact reusable predicate definition as its EntityOfConcern. Both state exact applicability and visible base dependencies.
10. Definition/signature boundary. A genuinely reusable predicate-definition episteme may satisfy ordinary A.6.0 U.Signature membership before relation-kind admission. It is not a RelationSignature, does not classify relation occurrences, and does not make one obtain.
11. Derived-kind candidate and admission. When a named use needs stable occurrence semantics, the A.6.RCD application records a derived-kind candidate plus a proposed direct subject settlement covering derivation and dependencies, obtaining, applicability, recurrence where current, and a direct occurrence-identity rule. Apply the admission predicates defined in E.24 and E.24.UK, and the parsimony predicate in A.11 when current. Neither the proposal nor a SubjectPatternLocator admits the kind. Only an admitted relation kind proceeds to an A.6.0 RelationSignature; ordinary U.Signature membership of a predicate-definition episteme is independent of that branch.
12. Primitive-kind settlement. A primitive candidate records the failed derivation, exact action-facing loss, independent uses, own obtaining and identity laws, and standalone direct pattern before A.11/E.24/E.24.UK admission can pass.
13. Identity never absent. Explicit individuation can be omitted from ordinary use; an admitted relation kind’s identity rule cannot.
14. Representation boundary. Formula, query, graph, tree, path, diagram, row, and name remain representations or designators connected to independently recovered content.
15. Neighboring claims. Apply A.10 for evidence, B.3 for assurance, A.21 for gates, A.15 for work, C.11 or the exact decision pattern for decisions, E.17 for publication, F.18 for naming, and G.11 for currentness.
16. Stop or return. The result states the current stop and the exact dependency or use change that would reopen it.