KCAE.SEARCH:4.2 - Select the next route by the missing contribution

Choose a route whose selection ground can plausibly reach what is missing. Known identifiers favour exact lookup. Vocabulary mismatch favours corpus-language variants or semantic retrieval. A missing definition favours structural expansion. A global synthesis can need several regions or multiscale summaries. An index blind spot or a newly changed region can justify original-block inspection. The available arrangement may supply only some of these routes; lack of a route is a capability limit.

Keep a small search state: original/current question, inspected source units and editions, useful contributions, disputed assumptions, pending source returns, covered extent and remaining resources. Avoid retaining every verbose search result in the principal reader’s context. The state guides the next action; an authorized detailed log can remain outside that context for diagnosis.

For a question with several needed aspects, state what each contribution must establish and mark which remains missing or disputed. More documents about an already answered aspect do not supply another one. Compare new material by the contribution it adds, not only by whether its identifier is new. For example, ten resend paragraphs cannot replace the missing destination configuration; once the governing rule and configuration are sufficient, another synonym search needs a separate reason to continue.

The next action should have an explicit expected contribution: “Open the compatibility note to determine whether protocol v1 supports deduplication,” rather than “search more.” When the required fact is the customer’s installed version, use a permitted configuration source or ask the customer. No amount of searching the public manual will establish that local fact. This is a return from finding literature to obtaining case data.