ME.14:4.1 - Pattern-Use Unfolding

Name the decision and receiver. State who will use the result, which Method or candidate account is under decision, the receiving practice and domain result, qualification window, authority boundary, and the action that keep, revise, replace, branch, or stop would change. The evaluation result supplies no permission or authority by itself.
Construct the current alternative set. Include feasible Methods or variants, a support or capability change when it can address the same problem, the status quo, and stopping or the next-slot use of scarce Work when material. Preserve admission and candidate status for every alternative.
State decision characteristics before comparing. Name domain results, burdens, capability demands, Systems, Agent-performed Work, direct relations, side effects, adaptability, opportunity costs, reversibility, evidence strength, and any additional situation-specific characteristic. State non-compensable stops and who bears each consequence. When the merits of a protective requirement are disputed, use §4.5; otherwise compare under the applicable criteria.
Assemble the available basis by alternative. Use current ME.5 qualification, credible domain estimates or judgement, and structural constraints alongside ME.11 actual Work, ME.12 corrections and ME.13 fit or transfer results where available and relevant. Distinguish observed results from estimates, recover the source and conditions of each relied-on claim, and retain the missing basis that limits the decision. Absence of evidence for one alternative is not evidence of its inferiority.
Preserve the receiving result and Method contribution boundary. Record the domain result separately from Method task completion, support use, report, or self-assessment. Distinguish direct observation, association, contribution, and causal claim. If contribution is unknown, compare the observed or estimated bundle at its supported strength and carry the attribution limit where it matters to the recipient.
Compare capability, System, Work, and relation demands explicitly. For every alternative, name holder-capability inputs, participating Systems, Agent-performed Work, direct relations, assignments, permissions, authority, access, provider and confidentiality boundaries, maintenance, recovery, and evidence Work that changes the decision. Do not let availability or assignment substitute for capability.
Keep trade-offs visible. Show where one alternative improves a domain result but increases burden, side effect, exposure, or opportunity cost. Use current A.19.CPM for non-trivial multi-criteria comparison and A.19.SelectorMechanism when a set-valued selection is needed. Do not invent a total order or scalar winner.
Compare branch and further-inquiry options where they matter. Ask whether alternatives serve different situation families and what information, retained material, capability, support or rollback a branch needs. Name its situation discriminator. Select a further trial or inquiry through C.11.DUA only when its obtainable result could change the choice enough to warrant its full burden, including displaced Work and the available window. An adequate current choice can finish directly.
Return the strongest supported action. keep retains the present course for the named window; revise names the ME.2 repertoire choice, ME.3 requirement, ME.6 architecture decision, ME.7 construction result, or ME.15 repertoire entry to reconsider; replace names the selected alternative and transition conditions; branch names the situation discriminator and retained alternatives; stop names the stopped use or change, what happens to current Work, and the unresolved trade-off. If the available basis cannot distinguish the possible actions, return the retained set and the limitation, together with any supported present course. Select a further probe only under step 8. A stronger choice can remain unresolved when no worthwhile inquiry is feasible.
Route each action according to its kind. For revise, replace, or branch, name the receiving ME.2 repertoire choice, ME.3 requirement, ME.6 architecture decision, ME.7 construction result, or ME.15 entry and the change needed there. If an existing claim is contradicted, identify that claim and reopen only its owning result. If this is a first situated choice or a new applicability distinction, create the needed decision or entry through its owner; do not invent an earlier claim or contradiction. keep adds no repair return. stop preserves the unresolved trade-off and stopped use without inventing a correction owner. If the comparison exposes a possible ME.8 description, ME.9 Method representation profile-row, ME.10 support, or directly governed lower representation contradiction, return the bounded evidence to ME.12; ME.12 identifies and rechecks the maintained correction owner. A worth result does not rewrite that owner automatically.
Package a bounded cross-product evidence result only when needed. XRI-14 may supply SYSE.15 with the situated Method-worth evidence positions and limits needed for an engineering Method-repertoire decision. It transfers neither the ME.14 action, authority, Method rank, causal claim, nor evidence beyond its source-use conditions.
State refresh conditions. Reopen when alternatives, domain consequences, capability or support demands, direct relations, evidence reach, costs, reversibility, situation fit, or the receiving decision window changes.