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RMP.5:4.6 - Finish or return the specific missing premise

Finding about the present useUseful continuation
The analysis and its criticism already answer the bounded questionReturn that answer and its material qualification.
The research question or proposed receiving use has changedRecover the changed question with RMP.1 or compatible supplied inputs.
The available contrast or a load-bearing premise defeats the selected designReturn the specific design question to RMP.2. A no-new-study disposition is not a selected design.
The operational choice cannot implement the intended contrastReturn that choice to RMP.3, carrying the design consequence rather than silently changing the question.
The named examination lacks a recoverable material or transformation relationUse RMP.4 to recover what survives and state the remaining loss or access limit.
A supplied disciplinary Method, criterion or authority result is missingReturn the exact dependent question to its owner.
Deciding how to address a remaining credibility threat could change the useful next moveUse RMP.6 with the bounded claim, basis, use and threat. The threat itself commissions no test.

The receiving engineering, policy, management, assurance or other practice retains its own action criteria and authority. Research criticism can change its evidential basis; it does not make that decision.