KCAE.SEARCH:4.5 - Spend and stop at the receiving result

Allocate resources to finding, assessment and the reading still required for correct use. Reserve enough for the final necessary source context; spending all capacity on candidates prevents application. Use actual tool/model limits, including latency and rate limits. Stop or narrow the inquiry when a required channel is unavailable, a hard budget is reached or additional accessible work is unlikely to change the next decision enough to justify its burden.

The judgement can be qualitative. Compare the next affordable action with continuing from the present result: what uncertainty could it remove, what action would change and what would the inspection cost? If a numerical value-of-information calculation is used, obtain its probabilities and costs independently; a retrieval score cannot stand in for those values. KCAE.USE supplies the decision context, while C.11.DUA supplies the general burden question.

Return the source candidates and why they matter, the inspected conditions, unresolved premises and any coverage limit that changes use. A short reply can preserve all of these where the case is simple. Distinguish “sufficient material found,” “current candidates rejected,” “missing fact,” “access constrained” and “budget stopped.” They imply different continuations and should remain different in a machine interface.