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OPS.6:4.4 - Use the least elaborate adequate steering branch

Apply the direct mandatory branch when a current rule and facts determine the next permissible Work. Use recognition when one current situation clearly matches a governed action. Adapt within the applicable domain Method when a bounded variation is authorized. Use C.11 only when several admissible live actions genuinely require comparison. Select a bounded probe only when its expected information can change the decision. If no permissible action exists, generate candidates through the owning practice or return the missing result instead of improvising an ungoverned action.