HCD.17:4.2 - Choose the truthful Method or candidate branch

Use the admitted-Method branch only when one independently admitted HCD Method or variant and actual HCD Work with a grounded enactment relation are recoverable for the current claim. Teaching a MethodDescription, publishing a card, or configuring a tool is not enactment.

Use the candidate or observed-practice branch when the subject is a status-preserved candidate, source-described practice, local routine, card, template, description episteme, or other claim-bearing material. Record independently supported Work facts without calling the candidate a Method, the material a MethodDescription, or the Work an enactment of the candidate whole.

Preserve the branch across the result. If admission, description membership, reusable semantics, lineage, or introduction becomes the live question, return it to Method Engineering. HCD.17 governs the HCD cultural relation, not the generic status repair.