Library.Reference:9.3.7 - Preserve and revise the canon through actual use

A canon can provide authoritative distinctions and reusable Methods while remaining open to correction. Establish what status a particular claim has, where it applies and who may change the maintained source. A local permission to edit a working note does not authorize changing the profession’s standard. A useful local variation does not need to be misrepresented as an already adopted norm.

When experience challenges the practice, recover the relevant input, operation, result and conditions. Decide which subject needs change. An inaccessible explanation calls for access repair. A misleading account calls for explanation repair. A person’s misconception calls for learning. A failed agent procedure calls for an engineering change. An unsuitable Method calls for subject development. A conflict of purpose or authority calls for its own accountable resolution. Several repairs may be needed, but name their actual dependence.

C.36.MC connects the cultural claim and continuation; C.36.RP connects recoverable repertoire and future use. C.40.JD connects a changing Method, holder and provision. Method-development and variation patterns qualify changes to the way itself. Use these results together when the cultural practice depends on them. Preserve sufficient current work while an unresolved improvement is developed, unless the current use is no longer justified.

A community can contribute examples, criticism, novice questions, new variations and expertise. It can also reproduce prestige bias, obsolete conventions or unexamined shortcuts. Popularity, longevity and frequency of use establish neither validity nor usefulness. Make the reason for selection and the route for a contrary finding available to later participants.

The retained contribution may need several forms: a developed account for learning or adaptation, a short cue during familiar work, examples that expose a distinction, and technical material usable by an agent. Preserve their correspondence to the same governed Method or claim. A short cue should not become an independent authority that silently drops a condition. An AI-specific instruction can differ from a human teaching explanation because the receiving operations differ.

Cultural continuity requires renewing carriers and capability. If the only expert leaves, a repository may retain documents while losing the interpretation that made them useful. If a model or tool changes, old evaluations may no longer qualify the same performance. If the professional domain changes, faithfully reproducing the old canon can be the failure. Reopen the affected use, obtain the missing contribution and retain the justified remainder.