DOCA.4:4.6 - Return a usable candidate or the exact gap

An ordinary direction account can say:

For this receiving Work and horizon, change this part of the current configuration to obtain this contribution, with these supports and protected conditions. The material transition and consequences are these; this premise remains unknown, and its positive, negative, or narrower answer would change the candidate in these ways.

Expand only what the next use needs. A complete enough direction may still be conditional; distinguish a qualified proposed configuration, a conditional direction with a named premise, an incomplete fragment, and a direction ruled out for the current use.

Use DOCA.5 for jointly necessary transitions and competing support. Use DOCA.6 for retention or a finite path when that is the question. If comparison or advice is current, provide the direction and its qualified premises to the appropriate PSD or domain use; DOCA.7 supplies the development-advice relationship boundary only when advice is requested.

For human development, a direction choice may become an input to HCD.2, which composes and compares programme candidates without choosing. A programme-level advice request starts with those comparable candidates; it does not relabel a DOCA path as a programme. Learning Product realizes a Guide from an authorized selected programme and focal pattern contributions. A Guide is not produced by rearranging direction labels.

Reopen only the affected contribution, support, transition, comparison, or downstream use under DOCA.8 when its premises change.