B.5.2.0:13 - Worked Prompt Species

B.5.2.0:13.1 - Anomaly statement as canonical prompt

In a constructed service case, latency rises from 8 ms to 40 ms under the same declared workload. The prompt asks what could explain that contrast, names the service and time window, and cites the measurements. Rival explanations may concern contention or a changed cache path; neither is asserted by publishing the prompt. B.5.2 compares their plausibility and may return a qualified conjecture or defer.

B.5.2.0:13.2 - Opportunity-style prompt

An opportunity cue may raise an explanatory question about an indicated advantage without a failure. For example, an unexpectedly stable response in one operating range invites rival explanations of that stability. Whether to exploit the opportunity is a separate action choice.

B.5.2.0:13.3 - Probe-style prompt

A probe-related observation may prompt an explanatory question: which rival explanations predict the measured contrast under the stated perturbation? If the question is instead which available probe is cheapest or most discriminating for the current purpose, use C.11. The probe choice does not require an abductive prompt merely to acquire that input form.

B.5.2.0:13.4 - Specialization-sensitive prompt set

Use a specialization-sensitive species for its explanatory question in §4.1.1. For example, a measured performance contrast can prompt rival explanations tied to a declared task family and budget. Acquiring a specialist Method or competence bundle instead requires the applicable option or alternative-development decision. Retain task family, threshold, budget and cue provenance in whichever receiving use needs them; prompt publication does not select the acquisition.