DOCA.6:4.5 - Use archive, front, and pool treatment only for their actual questions

Use C.18 — Open-Ended Search Archive and Front Stewardship when generation or retention actually needs a search archive, front, descriptor space, lineage, or exploration policy. Its archive preserves exploration or stepping-stone value; its front reports current non-domination under a declared comparator and admissibility. Neither return is a recommendation, selected-set declaration, or work permission.

For generation, recover the generator, operators, descriptors, source/lineage, and retention basis that matter. Claim a changed possibility space only when that stronger claim changes the inquiry. A newly visited region under the same effective generation conditions is exploration, not evidence of expansion. Use C.18 for the earlier and candidate space declarations, changed component, supported mode, evidence, and blocked overread; causal claims require the direct causal result.

Use C.19 — Explore–Exploit Governor when the current question is how to treat a still-live pool under its declared policy: widen it, keep its frontier, narrow it to a subset, or sunset a line. The policy may remain unchanged while that treatment question becomes current. Selecting the next local candidate or probe is a different question, as are generating a variant, declaring a selected set, and enacting Work.

Ordinary opportunity retention does not require all those practices. A few descriptions with recoverable reasons and conditions can be enough.