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PSD.5:4.6 - Return the account and its reopen basis

Keep enough content for the recipient to recover:

  • the subject, question, receiving use, configuration, and horizon;
  • each selected model’s distinct contribution, current content, source basis, assumptions, and losses;
  • the material correspondences, conflicts, and shared evidence dependencies;
  • what the account supports, what remains hypothetical or unknown, and which alternatives or claims it can discriminate; and
  • the observation that would reopen a model, its connection to another, the problem formulation, or the boundary.

This can be a short annotated comparison; it need not be a new repository or universal record form. If no model combination answers the question, say so. A missing direct result is more useful than a polished but unsupported combined answer.

The same account may inform Method selection, alternative generation, uncertainty treatment, or conflicts between simultaneous inquiries. Each recipient takes only the current, compatible contribution it needs; the account does not complete those later judgements.