OCE.5:4.1 - Pattern-Use Unfolding

1. Bind the position question. Name the owning organization, intended contribution, current design or operating need, decision subject, authority, horizon, and first receiver of the position description.
2. Recover candidate claims. Collect the current charter, bylaws, organization decisions, position descriptions, title uses, contribution architecture, assignments, holder facts, and observed Work. State what each source can establish.
3. Find the establishment predicate. Identify the applicable domain predicate, authority, act or relation that creates the position, its effective condition, and its owning organization. If the applicable predicate or establishment basis is unavailable, retain a proposed description or unresolved position claim.
4. Set the identity-bearing criteria. State the expected contributions and assignment-eligibility criteria that distinguish this position. Add another criterion only when changing it would change which institutional position the organization means.
5. Specify eligible role kinds. Name the exact local system-role-kind domain and criteria relevant to assignment. Keep System classification, candidate-holder capability, and actual assignment as later questions.
6. Separate neighboring relations. State responsibility, authority, permission, resource, access, compensation, reporting, or membership requirements as separately governed needs. Include one only when it changes the position design or downstream assignment.
7. State continuation and termination. Name the basis remaining in force, identity-bearing criteria that must remain, effectivity window, abolition or suspension condition, and evidence that triggers re-evaluation. Holder or description change alone preserves identity unless the applicable basis says otherwise.
8. Write the position description. Give the title or designations, owner, basis, expected contributions, eligibility, scope, conditions, neighboring requirements, vacancy status, and source return. Mark a proposal as possible-future content.
9. Test identity changes. Replay vacancy, holder replacement, title change, description correction, changed expected contribution, changed eligibility, abolition, and re-establishment. State which preserve identity and which require a new or unresolved position claim.
10. Return assignment input. Supply position identity, eligible kinds, expected contributions, establishment/continuation facts, and enabling needs to OCE.6. Return capability, legal, labor, governance, compensation, privacy, or safety questions to their owners.
11. Stop at position sufficiency. Return when a reader can tell whether the position exists, what makes it the same position, which contributions it expects, who may be assigned by kind, and what observation reopens that account.