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RMP.4:7 - Conformance Checklist

Use this checklist for the package’s declared receiving examination.

  • The covered inquiry, study portion and examination are identifiable; an absent final claim is not replaced with an invented one.
  • Plans, actual conduct, later reports, reconstructions and unknowns remain distinguishable.
  • Consequential material can be followed through selection and transformations to its receiving use, at the granularity that examination requires.
  • Changes preserve their earlier intention, actual effect, timing, reason and relevant prior information where supported; unknowns remain explicit.
  • Missing observations, exclusions, failed runs, inaccessible sources and changed interpretations have their own supported consequences.
  • Research-shaping human and AI contributions are inspectable to the needed and permitted extent; routine assistance does not trigger indiscriminate transcript capture.
  • The account distinguishes surviving material, actual permitted access, public views, reconstruction and loss.
  • Every claimed criticism-ready use has the necessary inspectable material. Prevented examinations are stated with their next source, access, narrower-use or design/question return.
  • A new run or new data collection is represented as new work rather than as restoration of unsupported original conduct.

For a consequential reliance, follow one important use backwards to its material and compare a relevant prior commitment with actual conduct. Inspect the weakest required link and the access actually available to the intended reader. A reachable directory or an openness label is not the completion test.