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A.6.S:1 - Problem frame

Boundary descriptions often arrive as “half-signatures”: an n-ary relation in ordinary prose, overloaded markers such as binding, anchoring, or contract, and unstated assumptions about participants, applicability, and publication. Teams then revise the boundary through edits, reviews, and partial publications.

A.6.5, A.6.6, A.6.2-A.6.4, and E.17 already govern several different moves that may occur during that work. The missing discipline is not a universal engineering container. It is a proportional choice:

  1. state the actual edit, relation, arrow, application, Work, edition, or view and stop when that answers the use; or
  2. when a named receiver needs the same constructor vocabulary and laws again, identify a separate ConstructorSignature and state the exact dependency or use that connects it to the work.

Without that choice, four failures recur:

  1. the TargetSignature, constructor-operation description, application, and performed Work are conflated;
  2. a one-off revision is inflated into a durable two-signature apparatus;
  3. semantic changes hide behind generic edit language instead of identifying the receiving episteme and any actual edition, continuity, or reference change; and
  4. publication views acquire claims not present in the described signature.

An episteme does not act. When performed Work is claimed, recover each actual performer U.System and the complete A.13 core, then independently admit the dated occurrence under A.15.1, as set out in §4.0. A System may separately apply a described operation. Use F.6 afterward only for a receiving claim that consumes precise assignment-bound attribution through the same obtaining A.13 assignment; F.6 identifies neither assignment nor performer, and the assignment itself does not act.