| One primary subject is selected | A style, genre, mood, product, or event label decides nothing. | Choose artifact/occurrence, practice, style-development line, or medium/support System. |
| Linked subjects retain their identities | One document becomes a universal brief. | State each result and the relation by which another part of the project uses it. |
| Proposal and realization are separate | Publishing the brief is treated as creating the result. | Name realization Work and the first world-side observation. |
| Preservation and variation are explicit | The project either freezes a practice or erases its distinction. | State what must survive and what may change for the receiving use. |
| Material conflict or unresolved choice is visible | Incompatible commitments are rewritten as one agreed objective. | Name the affected Agents or Systems, the commitments that cannot presently coexist, the decision changed, and the observation or authority needed. |
| Recognition has a user and Method | Promotion or familiarity is treated as recognition. | Name the recognizing Agent or population, conditions, and observation. |
| Ability and authority are separate | The party able to fund, publish, teach, or amplify is assumed to decide for all. | State authority, permission, consent, contest, refusal, exit, or revision. |