E.15:4.7 - Keep one useful change account
Use the receiving workflow’s existing record. A compact change account normally needs only:
| Question | Minimum useful answer |
|---|---|
| What changed? | Exact predecessor and candidate, changed loci, and ordinary-language actual effect. |
| How material is it? | Delta-Class with the reason from §4.3, not the desired label. |
| What may be affected? | Dependent loci and unresolved reach; mention-only citations need no repair recital. |
| What was preserved? | Material predecessor functions and any intentional change, move, or retirement. |
| Why this repair? | Direct repair reason, or alternatives and intended-use trade-off when a real choice existed. |
| What was checked? | The focused or whole-pattern results required for the claimed conclusion. |
| What reopens? | Only a source, premise, consumer, or condition whose change could invalidate the result. |
These answers may live in a DRR, review package, campaign result, source-use account, or landing preservation result as that workflow requires. Cite an existing E.21 or E.22 evaluation, F.15 result, source-use record, or decision instead of copying it. Do not mint a dedicated authoring trace, publish a work log with the pattern, or treat a file or publication occurrence as proof that the change was performed well.