KCAE.COMPOSE:4.2 - Establish the connection, not just the adjacency

For each proposed connection, compare the actual output with the required input. Check what it denotes, granularity, units, source edition, time, authority and applicable population. A daily count is not a list of individual export identifiers. A list of transmitted identifiers is not proof that the destination accepted them. A percentage of completed jobs cannot silently become a probability of success for a different job.

When the two sides differ, name and obtain a conversion. This may be a deterministic transformation, another method or an expert judgement. State the information it loses and the receiving criterion it preserves. If the required conversion cannot be supplied, the methods do not yet connect. Renaming an output field cannot repair incompatible meanings.

Keep a small explanation of the relation: which result supplies which need, under which case conditions, on which source basis. This can be an annotated diagram, table or ordinary prose; a graph database is optional. Source-authored cross-references remain source relations. A connection inferred for this case remains a situated judgement. Do not silently promote it into a timeless assertion about every use of either method.