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SYSE.30:4.3 - Construct one controlled execution

Turn the recovered instructions into an executable procedure with explicit inputs and outputs. Start in a clean workspace and obtain the named inputs. Prevent an undeclared local file or an unbounded “latest” dependency from silently changing the result. Keep secrets outside public logs and use the authorized access mechanism.

Treat caches according to their role. An identified dependency cache can supply a known input; an old final package cannot demonstrate that the present build procedure works. For the reconstruction check, execute the relevant build work rather than copy a previously produced output. If complete isolation is expensive, state which remaining influences are controlled, observed or unresolved.

Bind the resulting artifact identities to the actual input set and execution. SYSE.13 supplies configuration identity. A successful exit without the promised output is not successful construction.