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G.4:4.4a - Declaration-to-runtime evaluation boundary (normative)

A CAL pack is a reusable design-time declaration. A stored operator card, clause, flow, TaskMap, proof-ledger row, test, or evidence-profile reference establishes neither an actual participant nor performed evaluation. When a CAL declaration is applied, recover the runtime chain explicitly:

  1. Name one exact EvaluationMethod (U.Method). Its U.MethodDescription may state generic participants, parameters, effects, and evaluation conditions, but it carries no actual-participant slots and no intrinsic claim that a test, proof, or acceptance event occurred.
  2. Cite the exact CAL.Operator, CAL.Flow, and CAL.Acceptance declarations as A.6.1 operation semantics. Resolve the clause’s resultInputDeclarationRef, then bind the exact current C.16 measurement-result episteme in this application and test it against the declaration’s Characteristic and admissible result shape. Use the exact A.6.1 declaration and application bindings; do not infer them from a compatible signature, TaskMap, or stored reference.
  3. First recover every precise performer’s A.13 core for the exact evaluation action, scope, working situation, and window, including the same obtaining assignment later used by any attribution. A.15.1 then independently admits one dated EvaluationWork : U.Work from its performance history, enacted Method, extent, and containing-System relation. Add F.6 afterward only when the receiving claim needs exact assignment-bound attribution through that same assignment. Recover the evaluated or affected referent, actual resources, and every concrete participant through its direct subject relation or an A.6.1 application binding. A compact attribution account may omit only an assignment identifier unused by its receiving claim; it omits no consumed fact. Ordinary activity not claimed as U.Work does not enter this branch.
  4. State the local result under its direct predicate and pattern. A CAL.Acceptance application yields its exact pass | fail | unknown verdict; use A.19 for comparison and selection results, C.16 for measurement results, and C.11 for a decision result. No generic evaluation-result or work-result field substitutes for these objects.
  5. When a durable assertion is needed, constitute one C.2.1 result episteme whose ClaimGraph states that local result, evaluated subject, interpretation basis, polarity or domain status, and uncertainty when current. The episteme is not the domain result and does not create it.
  6. Attach source recovery and provenance through A.10/G.6 and currentness through G.11. State the A.10 evidence-provenance account and local RelianceDisposition for the bounded use, citing the direct rule for any reliance relation. Enter B.3 when an actual named assurance claim is current; a consequential use without one retains its direct governing rule. A citation, ledger edge, evidence profile, disposition, or assurance record does not establish the work, participant, application, or local result it describes.
  7. A later selector, acceptance action, or decision is another governed occurrence. It relies on the result episteme through an exact premise, reference, decision-use, or operation-argument relation; mere storage, citation, or graph membership does not establish actual use.

This chain keeps declaration, execution, local result, result episteme, provenance, bounded reliance, currentness, acceptance, and decision independently recoverable.