SYSE.50:4.1 - Select the decision and what the policy can observe

Name one decision unit: a particular claim, tool argument, action proposal or task continuation. Fix the performer or performing arrangement, relevant task family and information available at that point; identify the configured model when one is used. Distinguish an uncertain interpretation from a missing current fact, missing access, unresolved effect and absent authority. Further thinking can resolve some interpretation questions; it cannot manufacture an unavailable fact or authority.

List feasible responses and what each can supply. Retrieval may supply a source premise; clarification may settle the user’s intended target; an outcome lookup may resolve a previous effect. A generic request for “more confidence” supplies none of these by itself.

Choose signals obtainable before the decision. For a person these may include observed error patterns, the presence of needed information, current working demands and an elicited judgement of confidence. For a model they may include exposed response scores, sampled disagreement, evidence coverage or a trained estimator. Record the signal’s meaning and access conditions. A person’s confidence report and a model score have different qualification bases; text alone is not an internal probability. A hidden-state estimator is unavailable to a text-only API. Keep instruction and evidence access comparable.