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SYSE.44:4.4 - Localize change and stop

When an input or source changes, identify the returns that used it and reopen their dependent conclusions. Keep unaffected results. Cancel or redirect obsolete work when doing so is permitted and useful; do not let its later arrival replace a result based on the new premise.

Use the integrated result in the receiving decision or action and observe whether it supplies the needed contribution. A handover delivered on time can still fail there. Return a context omission to context construction, a defective component to its supplier, a bad join to integration and an unsupported whole condition to the domain decision.

Stop when the whole result suffices or the remaining work cannot supply a worthwhile permitted continuation. A timed-out agent is an unavailable result, not evidence for whichever alternative the other agent favors.