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SYSE.1:4.4 - Record the smallest useful choice account

The cheap first result contains only:

Project-system choice account:
  current project and decision:
  selected actual System or intended referent:
  current use or change reason:
  main unresolved assumption:
  reopen condition:

Use any readable form for this content. Add further content—for example, comparison grounds, candidate alternatives, boundary and participation claims, affected Systems, authority, realization, or evidence—only when it changes the current choice or a downstream use.

Stop when the project can ask a concrete use-and-system concept question about the named referent for the stated reason. The resulting account supplies that referent, reason, boundary question, alternatives, and reopen condition to SYSE.2.