OPS.6:1 - Problem Frame

Continuing cases do not simply advance because a standard sequence exists. New observations, dependency failures, changed permissions, resource relations, specialist decisions, or unexpected outcomes can make yesterday’s next action unsafe, impossible, or irrelevant. The operation still needs a bounded way to continue without replacing the applicable clinical, engineering, legal, safety, security, or other domain Method.

The practical problem is to select the next permissible Work from the current situation and then admit progression only after performance and evidence, while returning exact blockers rather than fabricating a state transition.