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ME.4:4.2 - Record the Result

Dossier positionRequired content
recovery boundaryReceiving decision, source set and exact editions/snapshots, viewpoint, scope, and exclusions.
source/use statementPer source: locator, role, recovery profile, receiving use, and currentness or reopening condition; combine this with the boundary for one ordinary package.
entriesLocal reference, source locator and meaning, difficulty/opportunity, asserted action/change, first result/blocker, existing kind or unresolved status, bounded use, and loss.
direct relationsRelated subjects, relation, source or evidence basis, truth status, and unresolved condition.
occurrence-evidence return, when currentThe A.3.1.MR or ME.18 result with its own candidate statuses, real rivals, gaps and evidence limits. Include a distinguishing question only when it changes the receiving use, or a held-out result only when actually obtained. An ordinary account needs no prospective study to fill this row; raw observations are not documentary Method entries.
navigationOpen local sections used only for finding contributions.
downstream subjectsIdentified Methods and individually scoped accounts with dependency slices for ME.5; a proposed-whole account with its identity/relation boundary for ME.7 when needed.
stop and returnMissing source, role, use, comparator, kind, relation, evidence, or the next receiving question.

Keep these distinctions in the dossier already being used; they are not a requirement for one file or row per field. A short one-source result can carry the source/use statement in its opening sentence.