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C.32.HCS:4.4 - ACS Criteria-Row Use

HCS stops with starter heads and first project questions. The next C.32.ACS use governs:

  • whether C.32.ACS admits the head as a draft project criteria row;
  • whether it is one characteristic or a C.25 Q-Bundle;
  • whether the project uses it as an optimization indicator, monitored guardrail, or context-only row;
  • which scale, reading, and pattern for the next question apply.

Before ACS criteria-row use, ask one proxy-resistance question for each carried starter head: what architecture concern would worsen or disappear if the visible catalogue entry, domain term, benchmark row, or dashboard value looked better? Such visible material is not yet an architecture-characteristic starter head. Carry it forward only when the architecture-bearing family, likely bearer, likely scale, Q-Bundle boundary, first project question, source catalogue entry, benchmark row, dashboard row, or publication row, source-to-use path, and reopen condition remain recoverable. Also name the selected source U.Episteme and an EpistemePublicationRelation occurrence when availability matters. If the architecture concern cannot be recovered, keep the wording as source catalogue wording or remove it from the starter pack. When the concern and the required starter-head bindings are recoverable but no plausible worsening or loss is found, carry the head forward, name the concerns inspected, and leave any unresolved proxy risk explicit.

Stop condition. Stop C.32.HCS when the starter pack names the admitted holon family or recovered architecture-bearing family, starter heads, likely bearers or selected structures, likely composite-quality boundaries, first ACS questions, and any blocked overread. The next project criteria-row work belongs to C.32.ACS.

Lowering condition. Lower a starter head to source catalogue wording or remove it from the starter pack when the architecture-bearing family is not declared, the likely bearer or likely scale is missing, the composite-quality boundary is still unresolved, the first ACS question is absent, repeated ACS uses reject the head for that family, or the item is being used to smuggle measurement, eval, comparison, publication, local choice, or decision work into HCS. Use C.25 when the head is composite, C.32.ACS when the project criteria-row question is ready, and the named pattern for the next question when the stronger claim is current.