C.40.OCN:4.7 - Return the opportunity and reopen the affected premise
Use a short account when it carries the needed distinctions. These are content positions, not a new universal record kind or a requirement to fill every field.
| Position | Inspectable content |
|---|---|
| Receiving frame | Holder or bounded candidate holder, later Work, receiver/use, horizon and the reason the question matters. |
| Problem and proposed promise | Worthwhile problem or explicitly unconfirmed problem hypothesis; proposed contribution and acceptance expectations; any existing promise kept distinct. |
| Search and difference | Sources and search operations used, materially different directions, relevant unsearched areas and why each retained direction is not just a renamed alternative. |
| Supports and dependencies | Necessary capability, access, support, resources, authority and other premises, their supplying owners and qualification state. |
| Reachability | Supported transitions and joint conditions; unknown or ruled-out transitions; the strongest warranted conditional or positive claim. |
| Uncertainty and protection | What may reverse the opportunity, what is protected and which stronger conclusions remain unsupported. |
| Stepping stone or retention | Only when relevant: the later option/region, enabling transition, lineage and actual retention or comparison policy. |
| Next question and return | The useful opportunity and its material limit; a discriminating question, reconsideration trigger, selected request, or separate next use only where it serves the recipient. |
The account may return a qualified candidate, a conditional candidate with a missing premise, a rejected direction with its reason, or an unresolved frame. It can stop without a recommendation. A source bibliography, score or diagram alone is none of these results.
Reconsider an opportunity when a relied-on problem, promise, source, holder configuration, dependency, protection, horizon or comparison policy changes. Map the change to the exact candidate claim and any retained stepping stone or downstream advice that used it. Preserve independent claims.
For example, suppose the data owner in the constructed model case later qualifies only a narrower source set. Retain the receiving need and the manual-index direction. Narrow the model-assisted candidate to the permitted set; remove the unsupported representative-use reachability claim and request missing evidence only if its obtainable contribution to that broader use warrants the whole acquisition burden. No earlier actual Work is erased by this change of knowledge.
If the new source set also excludes the particular region that a candidate stepping stone was meant to open, revise or remove that retention rationale. Another retained candidate does not become invalid by association. If the proposed next question is no longer discriminating, choose a new one under the receiving policy.
A factual change in one application does not automatically change this reusable Method. Reopen the Method’s claims when evidence or a stronger practice line shows that its search, problem/promise construction, dependency reasoning, reachability rule or stop omits a material action. G.11 supplies source refresh; C.40.RQ requalifies an affected opportunity. A recurring failure of this Method returns to its maintainer.