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SYSE.51:4.4 - Qualify allocation on complete attempts

Compare adaptive allocation with fixed and manual alternatives under the same result requirements and resource accounting. Keep construction and tuning trajectories separate from final tasks. Measure receiving success and protected effects alongside total reasoning, evaluation, tool and integration burden in the applicable units; count failed attempts too. For people, record material differences in prior practice, assistance, fatigue and task order; repeated use of an already solved case cannot establish the same fresh-task comparison.

Include an easy task where early stopping is warranted, a harder task where further work changes the choice, an unresolvable missing fact, and a reduced budget. Test whether the rule’s intermediate evaluator rewards plausible but invalid progress. SYSE.49 can supply those distinctions, and SYSE.46 supplies the final configuration evidence.

When several components change together, qualify the whole arrangement unless the comparison isolates an attribution. Return a bad evaluator to its supplier, a lost premise to SYSE.52, a needless help choice to SYSE.50 and an ignored stopping decision to SYSE.47. Stop at the bounded allocation rule and comparison result, or the exact unresolved feasibility or evidence condition.