ME.14:10 - Rationale

Worth is relational: a Method-related course is worth something for a receiver, situation, domain result, alternative set, and time. Coherence and fit can be necessary inputs to the decision, but they do not settle it. A visible trade-off is more actionable than a score whose composition and evidence reach are hidden.

The five actions distinguish maintenance from change. Keep preserves a situated course and adds no repair return; revise, replace, and branch identify the owning decision or entry and distinguish a newly needed choice from correction of an existing claim; stop protects against unsupported or dominated continuation while preserving the unresolved trade-off and stopped use without inventing a correction owner. None supplies implementation authority.