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EXD.4:7 - Conformance Checklist

Recognition concerns an exchange in which the next contribution can change the explanation’s usefulness. A message count or a conversational interface alone does not establish that situation.

For assurance of the performed explanatory result, inspect the contribution and response that matter:

  • the offered account answers an identifiable current question;
  • feedback is interpreted at the level its content supports;
  • a consequential ambiguity receives a discriminating question or remains explicitly unresolved;
  • the next move addresses the located difficulty or revised question;
  • added help and independent response remain distinguishable when later reliance uses that difference;
  • closure preserves the warranted result, its conditions and any actionable return.

These criteria support a bounded reading of the exchange. A learning or transfer claim requires evidence beyond a fluent closing message.