HCD.4:10 - Rationale

Capability profiles are architectures of simultaneous, condition-qualified claims, not inventories arranged by visual order. Claim identity is needed because contributions can have different supports, critical-error limits, uncertainty, and trade-offs. The profile’s practical value lies in the difference it preserves, not in a total it can display.

Keeping comparison before choice prevents the profile from inventing a chooser, options, or authority. Under C.11, applying the ChoiceRule can return probe again when a feasible observation is worth its cost and can still change which option survives. The record makes the used inputs, applied rule, and result inspectable; it preserves an already supported choice without a separate no-probe account. profile-decision-blocked identifies absent prerequisites for the actual conclusion.