HCD.5:4.1 - Bind the Selection Use

First distinguish selection for a known person from design for a future audience. Name:

1. the person and participation basis, or the future audience and its assumptions; identify the receiving decision and decision owner in either case;
2. the later-Work contribution, configuration, horizon, protected result and critical-error conditions;
3. the qualified target for that person and any still-plausible rival explanation, or the target contribution and proposed entry conditions for each design branch;
4. the person’s starting attempt, including task, permitted and received help, work product, result, errors, uncertainty and evidence window. For future design, state instead the entry task or existing evidence that would distinguish the branches, the allowed help and the response that would select or reopen each choice;
5. current strengths, prior relevant practice, available time, access, tools, AI posture, provider contribution, environment, privacy, safety, and other protected conditions; and
6. the observation that the receiving decision would use after the Method is applied.

For future design, keep unknown learner, support and resource values as assumptions with a return condition. Apply a personal choice only when the person’s entry evidence supports it. If rival explanations then change the human target or next action, return to HCD.3. If the target-domain Method, correctness criterion, access, permission, tool, specialist result, or safe participation condition is missing, issue a non-training return to its direct owner. Do not make the missing value into a motivation, practice, or knowledge deficit.