B.4:4.4 - Connect neighbouring cycles without collapsing them

The Canonical Reasoning Cycle (B.5) can supply reasoning Work within Observe and Refine. The B.5.1 development states and B.4 phases coordinate, but they are not a one-to-one implementation: a finding may reopen Exploration or Shaping, evidence use can support Evidence, and renewed use can enter or return to Operation.

When Observe finds only a weakly articulated cue, use the optional B.4.1 sequence Notice -> Stabilize -> Route. Its routed result can return to Refine or enter another subject pattern. That sequence does not replace the four B.4 phases.

Keep the account proportional. A local repair can name only the current subject, observed basis, actual Work, resulting identity relation, and next use. Expand to a complete cycle trace when a named relying decision, assurance case, audit, or later replay needs it. Never invent phases merely to make the record look complete.

Didactic Note: four practical questions

1. Operate: What exact subject is operating or being used now?
2. Observe: What has actual use shown, and through whose Work?
3. Refine: What change is being considered, and would it continue or replace the subject?
4. Deploy: What deployment Work occurred, and what separately established fact now supports the next use?

The gain is a readable connection from an observed basis to a real change and back to use, without losing subject identity, performers, Work, or evidence.