First fork — routine qualification, supplied answer, or research question
RMP.1 recovers the receiving use and current frame before treating the laboratory request as research.
| Supplied situation | RMP.1 result |
|---|---|
| A qualified field failure mechanism, applicable acceleration relation, qualified test Method and instrument, criteria, and evidence-use rule are current. | Return routine qualification/validation to engineering or assurance and the interval choice to the maintenance authority. |
| Current qualified evidence already shows that the proposed accelerated condition changes the dominant degradation mechanism for this use. | Return that exact supplied result and stop. Do not commission a confirming study merely for appearance. |
| The current frame leaves acceleration-induced mechanism change, installation damage, material variation or field fluid exposure as serious rivals; examining that relation is the inquiry’s epistemic task. | Return a ResearchQuestionBrief asking whether the accelerated condition preserves the field mechanism-to-evidence relation within the named envelope. A justified comparison may be supplied or still need construction. |
| A load-bearing current frame, source result, or domain relation is unavailable. | Return a research-boundary hold naming the missing result, the blocked decision, the responsible supplier, and the retry condition. |
The brief states the receiving use, the proposed change to the mechanism-to-evidence claim, the materials and operating conditions covered, current sources and rivals, required criticism, constraints and results supplied by other practitioners. It distinguishes the answer condition from conditions for finishing work with uncertainty. The maintenance authority retains the interval decision.