DOCA.2:7 - Conformance Checklist

A conforming search return:

1. MUST name the subject, local question, horizon, relevant protections, and effort boundary, together with the receiving concern when known.
2. MUST identify the generating operations and the differences that make retained leads consequential.
3. MUST distinguish source claims, local inferences, analogy, and missing evidence.
4. MUST NOT equate source count, idea count, novelty, or a supplier demonstration with local worth or reachability.
5. MUST preserve binding constraints while separately identifying assumptions that may be investigated. A live merits question returns its supported judgement of protection and burden and the actual amendment limit, without treating the recommendation as a changed rule.
6. MUST state the stopping reason and any unsearched area whose omission can change the receiving use.
7. MUST return a useful local answer, a next question with action-changing answers, an adequate lead set, rejection, or a specific gap.
8. MUST NOT require a workshop, exhaustive search, archive, live pool, recommendation, or selected direction for an ordinary search result.
9. SHOULD reuse an adequate set and retain a serious baseline or smaller repair when relevant.