ME.4:4.1.1 - Select the Recovery Profile Per Source
For an ordinary package, the default is decision-bounded recovery: inspect only source claims and dependency slices that can change the receiving decision. This default needs neither maintained-synthesis status nor a prior supplier comparison. Select a specialized profile below only when its condition holds; naming a profile does not itself add a recovery operation or a record.
| Profile | Select when | Recovery and limit |
|---|---|---|
| SoTA-first | Current alternatives can change which contributions the receiving decision needs. | Establish the relevant current comparison through ME.2 or the direct source route, then recover its decision-bearing claims. “Recent” alone is not a qualification. |
| Full source-local | An accepted maintained synthesis must remain reconstructable within a named scope. | Recover every decision-bearing contribution in that scope before later filtering. Preserve unsupported or non-selected material through source returns; do not import the source ontology or every chapter as a Method. |
| Gap-only | An exact earlier source/supplier comparison and its affected gap or delta are recoverable. | Recover that gap and its dependencies. Widen or stop if the baseline, scope, or source meaning has changed. A missing keyword is not a gap definition. |
| Mixed | The bounded corpus contains sources with different roles or recovery needs. | Apply the appropriate profile separately to each documentary source. Route occurrence evidence separately and retain the limits of any returned candidate account, specialist dossier, or lower result. |
“Full” is not an instruction to extract all possible knowledge from a source. The receiving decision sets the completeness boundary. A change from source-local recovery to cross-source reconciliation is a new question, not the final unspoken step of ME.4.