OPS.16:4.7 - Qualify the evidence through its current owners

Ask only the specialist questions that the receiving decision needs. Current ME.11 supplies representative and discriminating trial evidence; ME.12 examines coherence; ME.13 examines situational fit or transfer; ME.14 examines practical worth; ME.15 maintains Method lineage and variant claims; and ME.16 separates target, introduction strategy, actual Work, observations, and bounded revision. Reuse their current results instead of recreating them inside Operations.

Use A.10 for evidence reliance, C.16 for measurement validity, and C.27.TA for the temporal window. Use C.27 when the receiving use requires a temporal-claim adequacy check, and the C.28 causal-use result when the decision relies on a causal claim. Return temporal order, association or direct occurrence evidence at its supported strength, keeping the limits needed by the decision in the existing operating return. A favorable occurrence automatically establishes none of coherence, transfer, practical worth, sustained effectiveness, or causality.

Increase assurance effort only where it can change the decision. The extra identity and evidence distinctions are worthwhile when they prevent an unsupported start, branch, or stop. If a simpler observation settles the same bounded choice under the same protections, use it and leave stronger claims unresolved.