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KCAE.ENCOUNTER:4.4 - Turn the occasion into inquiry before recommending a solution

Use the observed work to ask what the result should enable and what remains unexplained. Keep a cue even if no diagnosis is available. B.5.PI supplies this opening of inquiry; KCAE.SEARCH can then find a contribution to the developed question. A practical event need not first match a known pattern label.

Compare the candidate’s contribution with the case and a nearby non-fit. “Duplicate reconciliation occurs” does not always imply a software defect: a declared manual control might already be the intended and affordable arrangement. If the current arrangement is adequate, the inquiry can end quietly. If case information is missing, decide whether asking for it is worth the recipient’s effort. If a useful new explanation is already available, deliver that explanation instead of demanding that the person learn a framework.

Keep applicability, present recommendation and interruption separate. A method can fit in principle while its benefit is too small now, its necessary support is unavailable, or the timing is poor. Select a quiet link, a digest, an agreed pause, a prompt to the responsible participant or immediate interruption according to the allowed use and consequence. The access system does not invent a new emergency authority.

Before a delayed suggestion is released, check that it still concerns the same episode revision, relevant case facts, source basis and allowed receiving purpose. A ticket edited after inquiry can require reassessment; attaching the old recommendation to the new text would hide that change. Reuse unaffected findings, but reopen any changed premise that can alter the recommendation. If the opportunity has ended, keep a permitted historical result or discard the pending suggestion. Do not broaden an old observation permission to deliver advice for a new purpose.