RMP.1:4.7 - First-Hour Qualification Card

Start with prompts 1–3, using the question and available material. If prompt 3 yields a sufficient answer, return it under §4.5 and finish the card there. Prompts 4–8 apply only while a research-membership question remains unresolved. A sentence or compact row is enough where an answer still needs to be made explicit.

1. Who needs what answer for which bounded use, and who retains the later decision?
2. What do the available sources already answer? Use §4.3 when the answer still needs to be recovered or compared; retain the sources and limitations that matter for this use.
3. Does that source answer resolve the receiving question? If yes, return it with the sources and limits needed for this use, and stop here.
4. What exact episteme could change, and what phenomenon, unit, case, corpus, relation, or contrast bounds it?
5. Why is the question unresolved relative to the frame rather than merely unfamiliar?
6. Which non-routine choice and genuine uncertainty prevent ordinary Method execution from being enough?
7. How could a critic inspect and defeat or narrow the claim?
8. What would make the answer adequate for this use? Separately, when should the present work finish with uncertainty or refusal, and what would reopen it?

If an answer still needed to decide the current branch depends on an unavailable source or owner result, name that hold immediately. If a nearest non-member fits, return it immediately. An unused later prompt is neither a missing input nor a reason to reopen a completed answer.