C.26.1:5 - Archetypal Grounding

Tell: A team runs a service-boundary workshop after a series of incidents. The first map says “Payments is separate from Checkout”. A week later, incident triage and backlog priorities have changed because the workshop reframed payment failure as a customer-promise risk.

Show, System side: the teams, services, dashboards, event stream, workshop format, and escalation routine are part of the boundary situation. The workshop is not only a carrier of information; it changes alignment and future work.

Show, Episteme side: the minimal evidence-bound claim is not “the workshop discovered the true topology.” It is “the workshop work functioned as a probe lane that changed the represented boundary state and exposed export loss across Checkout and Payment.” The next admissible use is a boundary or probe decision plus F.9 bridge notes.