C.17:7 - Comparison, gates, and selection boundary

1. Never use Novelty alone to approve or prefer a bearer. Pair it with Use-Value or the relevant ConstraintFit gate.
2. State the selected characteristic subset, polarities, eligibility conditions, and comparability basis of every dominance claim.
3. Preserve partial orders and incomparability. A Pareto or constraint-bounded Front follows from the declared rule; a visually pleasing hull is not a frontier.
4. Do not force one scalar creativity score. If a receiving policy uses an index, publish its weights or curves, admissible transformations, uncertainty treatment, sensitivity, and drift rule while keeping the primitive coordinates queryable.
5. Do not average ordinal Scales without an accepted model that supports the conversion.
6. A result may state a frontier relation over a declared set. Use C.18 to maintain the current Front and Archive, C.19 to state pool treatment and tie-break policy, G.5 to declare selector-facing results, and C.11 to make the choice.