| differentiation account | Explanandum, dated sequence, source editions and Work evidence, link claims, rivals, diagnostic comparisons with their assumptions and source dependencies, grades, limits, and reopen. |
| optional causal-use support result | Question ref, claim kind, rung, actual support-component refs, threat-screen ref, verdict, supported/unsupported uses, limits/evidence window, and reopen. |
| optional non-causal observation or hypothesis | Separate identity, descriptive basis, bounded design use, inferences this result does not support, and reopen. |
| downstream handoff | The result and its allowed use supplied to another decision, which retains its own authority. |