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      "definition": "Accumulation over a stated interval with retained net increments whose value is independent of the current base when time and other stated process inputs are held fixed.",
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        "Fixed additions to a retained stock.",
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        "A guarantee about how every person responds."
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      "definition": "Patterns in which perceived acknowledgment or status affects motivation and behavior.",
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        "Response to meaningful acknowledgment."
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        "The rule that praise always improves performance."
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      "definition": "Patterns connecting meaningful participation with perceived ownership or commitment.",
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        "Commitment influenced by contributing to a design."
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        "Assuming token consultation gives genuine control."
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        "Support and stated confidence changing opportunities to practice."
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        "Belief being sufficient for competence."
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        "Calling all parties' objectives identical."
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      "definition": "Assessing a representation against its intended use.",
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        "Constructing a consequence map as the main task.",
        "Choosing goals for the user."
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      "definition": "Checking what a proxy establishes about its underlying objective.",
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        "Independent outcome comparisons."
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        "Assuming all proxies are invalid."
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      "definition": "Methods for constructing and revising maps of plausible consequence chains, with explicit tests of proposed links.",
      "includes": [
        "Competing downstream hypotheses."
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      "excludes": [
        "Treating longer stories as better predictions."
      ],
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      "includes": [
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      "excludes": [
        "Unconditional action recommendations."
      ],
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      "aliases": []
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      "family_id": "QEF-E-UNC",
      "label": "Uncertainty Assessment",
      "stack": "Epistemic",
      "level": "root_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-E-INF",
      "definition": "Assessing limits of information and estimates.",
      "includes": [
        "Sensitivity to assumptions."
      ],
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        "Actual variability without a knowing claim."
      ],
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      "aliases": []
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      "family_id": "QEF-E-EST",
      "label": "Estimate Uncertainty",
      "stack": "Epistemic",
      "level": "principle_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-E-MOD",
      "definition": "Limits in estimates used to characterize a situation.",
      "includes": [
        "Model omission and estimation error."
      ],
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        "The real variation in loads, without a claim about estimating it."
      ],
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      "aliases": []
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      "label": "Distortion & Bias",
      "stack": "Epistemic",
      "level": "super_root",
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      "definition": "Systematic risks in acquiring or assessing knowledge.",
      "includes": [
        "Selective evaluation of evidence."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "A moral diagnosis of a person."
      ],
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      "aliases": []
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      "label": "Evidence Evaluation",
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      "parent_ref": "QEF-E-INF",
      "definition": "Assessment of evidence for and against a belief.",
      "includes": [
        "Assessment of evidence quality.",
        "Comparison of support for competing explanations."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "A biased evaluation tendency itself.",
        "Choice of a non-epistemic objective."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
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      "aliases": []
    },
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      "family_id": "QEF-E-CONF",
      "label": "Confirmation Bias",
      "stack": "Epistemic",
      "level": "principle_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-E-BIASED-EVAL",
      "definition": "Possible bias toward confirming an existing belief.",
      "includes": [
        "Asymmetric examination of alternatives."
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        "Disagreement by itself."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
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      "aliases": []
    },
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      "family_id": "QEF-E-SOC",
      "label": "Perspective & Social Knowing",
      "stack": "Epistemic",
      "level": "super_root",
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      "definition": "Knowledge about or obtained through other people.",
      "includes": [
        "Assessing credibility and testimony."
      ],
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        "The social mechanism independent of its assessment."
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      "aliases": []
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      "family_id": "QEF-E-CRED",
      "label": "Credibility Assessment",
      "stack": "Epistemic",
      "level": "principle_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-E-SOC",
      "definition": "Assessing support for confidence in another party.",
      "includes": [
        "Evidence of reliability and relevant competence."
      ],
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        "Personal liking as sufficient evidence."
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      "label": "Biased Evidence Evaluation",
      "stack": "Epistemic",
      "level": "root_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-E-BIAS",
      "definition": "Distortions in evaluating evidence that privilege an interpretation without adequate justification.",
      "includes": [
        "Belief-driven unequal scrutiny.",
        "Unjustified substitution of a proxy for an outcome."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "General evidence evaluation.",
        "Methods for correcting an evaluation error."
      ],
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      "aliases": []
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      "family_id": "QEF-E-COMP",
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      "stack": "Epistemic",
      "level": "principle_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-E-EVID",
      "definition": "Methods for applying justified evidence standards consistently to competing explanations.",
      "includes": [
        "Symmetric scrutiny of competing hypotheses."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "Confirmation bias itself.",
        "Contrarianism without evidence."
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      "aliases": []
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      "family_id": "QEF-E-SUB",
      "label": "Proxy Substitution",
      "stack": "Epistemic",
      "level": "principle_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-E-BIASED-EVAL",
      "definition": "An inference error that treats a proxy as sufficient evidence for the underlying objective without justification.",
      "includes": [
        "Proxy-only conclusions."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "A method for validating a proxy."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
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      "aliases": []
    },
    {
      "family_id": "QEF-E-BUILD",
      "label": "Model Construction",
      "stack": "Epistemic",
      "level": "root_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-E-MOD",
      "definition": "Methods for constructing and revising representations of a situation, including checks used during construction.",
      "includes": [
        "Building causal hypotheses and revising their proposed links."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "Evaluating an existing representation without constructing or revising it.",
        "The represented physical process itself."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
      "provenance_refs": [],
      "aliases": []
    },
    {
      "family_id": "QEF-E-ASSUME",
      "label": "Assumption Testing",
      "aliases": [],
      "stack": "Epistemic",
      "level": "principle_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-E-EVAL",
      "definition": "Methods for examining whether an explicit model assumption fits its intended setting.",
      "includes": [
        "Testing an assumption whose failure would change a conclusion."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "Treating an untested premise as a verified fact."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
      "provenance_refs": []
    },
    {
      "family_id": "QEF-E-RIVAL",
      "label": "Disconfirming Evidence Search",
      "aliases": [],
      "stack": "Epistemic",
      "level": "principle_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-E-ACCESS",
      "definition": "Methods for seeking information that could challenge a favored explanation.",
      "includes": [
        "Looking for observations predicted by a serious rival account."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "Mechanical contrarianism regardless of evidence quality."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
      "provenance_refs": [
        "SRC-HD-TABLE"
      ]
    },
    {
      "family_id": "QEF-E-PERSPECT",
      "label": "Perspective Taking",
      "aliases": [],
      "stack": "Epistemic",
      "level": "principle_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-E-SOC",
      "definition": "Methods for representing another actor's information, constraints, and goals.",
      "includes": [
        "Explaining a counterparty's choice from its stated constraints."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "Assuming empathy alone proves an explanation correct."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
      "provenance_refs": [
        "SRC-MK-TABLE",
        "SRC-HD-TABLE"
      ]
    },
    {
      "family_id": "QEF-E-ACCESS",
      "label": "Information Acquisition",
      "aliases": [],
      "stack": "Epistemic",
      "level": "root_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-E-INF",
      "definition": "Methods for obtaining observations relevant to forming or revising beliefs.",
      "includes": [
        "Listening, direct observation, and asking informed local participants."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "Evaluating evidence without acquiring additional information."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
      "provenance_refs": [
        "SRC-MK-TABLE",
        "SRC-HD-TABLE"
      ]
    },
    {
      "family_id": "QEF-E-LISTEN",
      "label": "Active Listening",
      "aliases": [],
      "stack": "Epistemic",
      "level": "principle_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-E-ACCESS",
      "definition": "Methods for eliciting and checking what another person reports or intends.",
      "includes": [
        "Clarifying questions and checking one's interpretation."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "Agreeing with every claim to make someone feel valued."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
      "provenance_refs": [
        "SRC-MK-TABLE"
      ]
    },
    {
      "family_id": "QEF-E-LOCAL",
      "label": "Local Reality Contact",
      "aliases": [],
      "stack": "Epistemic",
      "level": "principle_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-E-ACCESS",
      "definition": "Methods for obtaining situated observations from people or activity near the relevant work.",
      "includes": [
        "Observing front-line interactions and asking operators about constraints."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "Treating proximity as immunity from bias."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
      "provenance_refs": [
        "SRC-HD-TABLE"
      ]
    },
    {
      "family_id": "QEF-E-JUDGE",
      "label": "Judgment Calibration",
      "aliases": [],
      "stack": "Epistemic",
      "level": "root_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-E-INF",
      "definition": "Methods for assessing how well a judgment's confidence and basis fit the task.",
      "includes": [
        "Reviewing when experience-based estimates deserve reliance."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "Assuming confidence establishes competence."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
      "provenance_refs": [
        "SRC-HD-TABLE"
      ]
    },
    {
      "family_id": "QEF-E-EXP",
      "label": "Experience-Based Judgment",
      "aliases": [],
      "stack": "Epistemic",
      "level": "principle_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-E-JUDGE",
      "definition": "Methods for assessing and using pattern judgments grounded in relevant experience and feedback.",
      "includes": [
        "Checking that the present situation resembles a learned environment."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "Using a feeling as proof in an unfamiliar regime."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
      "provenance_refs": [
        "SRC-HD-TABLE"
      ]
    },
    {
      "family_id": "QEF-E-FRAME",
      "label": "Problem Framing",
      "aliases": [],
      "stack": "Epistemic",
      "level": "principle_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-E-BUILD",
      "definition": "Methods for specifying the problem, stakeholders, and constraints to be modeled.",
      "includes": [
        "Distinguishing a reported symptom from alternative problem definitions."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "Assuming a favored solution defines the problem."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
      "provenance_refs": [
        "SRC-MK-TABLE"
      ]
    },
    {
      "family_id": "QEF-D-GOV",
      "label": "Optimization & Control",
      "stack": "Decision",
      "level": "super_root",
      "parent_ref": null,
      "definition": "Goal-dependent choices about intervention and governance.",
      "includes": [
        "Reward and review design."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "Mechanisms without recommendations."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
      "provenance_refs": [],
      "aliases": []
    },
    {
      "family_id": "QEF-D-DES",
      "label": "Governance",
      "stack": "Decision",
      "level": "root_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-D-GOV",
      "definition": "Designing responsibilities, incentives, and review arrangements.",
      "includes": [
        "Decision and performance review."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "Individual perceptions without a choice."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
      "provenance_refs": [],
      "aliases": []
    },
    {
      "family_id": "QEF-D-MET",
      "label": "Metric Governance",
      "stack": "Decision",
      "level": "principle_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-D-DES",
      "definition": "Choices about use and review of consequential measures.",
      "includes": [
        "Outcome checks before assigning rewards."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "A claim that multiple metrics guarantee alignment."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
      "provenance_refs": [],
      "aliases": []
    },
    {
      "family_id": "QEF-D-INC",
      "label": "Incentive Design",
      "stack": "Decision",
      "level": "principle_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-D-DES",
      "definition": "Choices about consequences attached to behavior.",
      "includes": [
        "Aligning rewards with intended contributions."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "A claim that external rewards explain all behavior."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
      "provenance_refs": [],
      "aliases": []
    },
    {
      "family_id": "QEF-D-BIAS",
      "label": "Bias-Aware Review",
      "stack": "Decision",
      "level": "principle_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-D-DES",
      "definition": "Review procedures addressing identified judgment risks.",
      "includes": [
        "Evidence and challenge checkpoints."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "Diagnosing bias from disagreement alone."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
      "provenance_refs": [],
      "aliases": []
    },
    {
      "family_id": "QEF-D-REL",
      "label": "Relationship Design",
      "stack": "Decision",
      "level": "principle_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-D-GOV",
      "definition": "Choices supporting trustworthy cooperation.",
      "includes": [
        "Reliable commitments with safeguards."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "Replacing capability assessment with warmth."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
      "provenance_refs": [
        "SRC-HD-SUMMARY"
      ],
      "aliases": []
    },
    {
      "family_id": "QEF-D-RISK",
      "label": "Risk & Survival",
      "stack": "Decision",
      "level": "super_root",
      "parent_ref": null,
      "definition": "Choices about exposure, protection, and recovery.",
      "includes": [
        "Buffer and downside choices."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "Every choice presented as survival optimization."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
      "provenance_refs": [],
      "aliases": []
    },
    {
      "family_id": "QEF-D-BUF",
      "label": "Protective Buffers",
      "stack": "Decision",
      "level": "root_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-D-RISK",
      "definition": "Allocating resources to tolerate adverse deviation.",
      "includes": [
        "Slack and its opportunity costs."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "Unlimited redundancy as a universal recommendation."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
      "provenance_refs": [],
      "aliases": []
    },
    {
      "family_id": "QEF-D-SAFE",
      "label": "Safety Margin",
      "stack": "Decision",
      "level": "principle_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-D-BUF",
      "definition": "Choosing a gap between expected demand and a relevant limit.",
      "includes": [
        "Proportionate protective slack."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "A guarantee against unknown failure modes."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
      "provenance_refs": [],
      "aliases": []
    },
    {
      "family_id": "QEF-D-ALLOC",
      "label": "Tradeoffs & Allocation",
      "stack": "Decision",
      "level": "super_root",
      "parent_ref": null,
      "definition": "Choices among competing uses and consequences.",
      "includes": [
        "Comparing outcomes under constraints."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "A fixed objective assumed for everyone."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
      "provenance_refs": [],
      "aliases": []
    },
    {
      "family_id": "QEF-D-OUT",
      "label": "Outcome Evaluation",
      "stack": "Decision",
      "level": "root_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-D-ALLOC",
      "definition": "Comparing options by their relevant consequences.",
      "includes": [
        "Immediate and downstream effects."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "Inference without a selection objective."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
      "provenance_refs": [],
      "aliases": []
    },
    {
      "family_id": "QEF-D-DOWN",
      "label": "Downstream Evaluation",
      "stack": "Decision",
      "level": "principle_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-D-OUT",
      "definition": "Including material later effects in option comparison.",
      "includes": [
        "Scenario-aware choice."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "Automatically preferring the longest horizon."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
      "provenance_refs": [],
      "aliases": []
    },
    {
      "family_id": "QEF-D-RESOURCE",
      "label": "Resource Allocation",
      "stack": "Decision",
      "level": "root_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-D-ALLOC",
      "definition": "Choices about allocating constrained resources among feasible alternatives.",
      "includes": [
        "Time allocation choices."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "Descriptive statements of physical finiteness."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
      "provenance_refs": [],
      "aliases": []
    },
    {
      "family_id": "QEF-D-TIME",
      "label": "Time Allocation",
      "stack": "Decision",
      "level": "principle_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-D-RESOURCE",
      "definition": "Comparisons of alternative uses of time under explicit objectives and constraints.",
      "includes": [
        "Time allocated for earnings.",
        "Time allocated for relationships or learning."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "A claim that time must always be monetized."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
      "provenance_refs": [],
      "aliases": []
    },
    {
      "family_id": "QEF-D-COMMIT",
      "label": "Commitment Design",
      "aliases": [],
      "stack": "Decision",
      "level": "parent_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-D-DES",
      "definition": "Choices about making, maintaining, and reviewing obligations.",
      "includes": [
        "Commitment tracking and consistency of obligations."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "An explanatory claim about trust without a choice."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
      "provenance_refs": [
        "SRC-MK-TABLE"
      ]
    },
    {
      "family_id": "QEF-D-FOLLOW",
      "label": "Follow-Through",
      "aliases": [],
      "stack": "Decision",
      "level": "principle_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-D-COMMIT",
      "definition": "Policies and methods for completing or explicitly renegotiating commitments.",
      "includes": [
        "Returning calls, closing a loop, and communicating a revised commitment."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "Treating each communication action as a sibling family."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
      "provenance_refs": [
        "SRC-MK-TABLE"
      ]
    },
    {
      "family_id": "QEF-D-VALUES",
      "label": "Value Consistency",
      "aliases": [],
      "stack": "Decision",
      "level": "principle_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-D-COMMIT",
      "definition": "Choices that apply stated values consistently across situations while making conflicts explicit.",
      "includes": [
        "Applying the same ethical constraint in business and personal conduct."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "Persisting in a harmful rule merely to appear consistent."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
      "provenance_refs": [
        "SRC-MK-TABLE"
      ]
    },
    {
      "family_id": "QEF-D-PEOPLE",
      "label": "People Development",
      "aliases": [],
      "stack": "Decision",
      "level": "parent_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-D-GOV",
      "definition": "Choices about building people's capability and participation in an organization.",
      "includes": [
        "Practice, training, or recognition aimed at building relevant capability.",
        "Meaningful involvement that develops participation in organizational decisions."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "Acknowledgment without a capability-development or participation purpose.",
        "An empirical law that every intervention motivates everyone."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
      "provenance_refs": [
        "SRC-MK-TABLE",
        "SRC-HD-TABLE"
      ]
    },
    {
      "family_id": "QEF-D-CAPABILITY",
      "label": "Capability Development",
      "aliases": [],
      "stack": "Decision",
      "level": "principle_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-D-PEOPLE",
      "definition": "Choices about improving people's relevant competence within an organization through practice, training, and support.",
      "includes": [
        "Internal leadership development with demonstrated readiness.",
        "Practice and training for an organizational role, including individual study serving that role."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "Promoting internally regardless of capability.",
        "Competence improvement pursued only for a personal hobby outside an organizational role."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
      "provenance_refs": [
        "SRC-MK-TABLE",
        "SRC-HD-TABLE"
      ]
    },
    {
      "family_id": "QEF-D-RECOG",
      "label": "Recognition Design",
      "aliases": [],
      "stack": "Decision",
      "level": "principle_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-D-GOV",
      "definition": "Choices about what contribution to recognize and how acknowledgment is delivered.",
      "includes": [
        "Meaningful, credible, and proportionate recognition."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "Status rewards that undermine fairness or conceal poor outcomes."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
      "provenance_refs": [
        "SRC-MK-TABLE",
        "SRC-HD-TABLE"
      ]
    },
    {
      "family_id": "QEF-D-PART",
      "label": "Participatory Design",
      "aliases": [],
      "stack": "Decision",
      "level": "principle_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-D-PEOPLE",
      "definition": "Choices about involving affected participants in developing a plan or system within an organization, with meaningful influence on decisions.",
      "includes": [
        "Consultants helping refine the organization's training.",
        "Team members shaping the workflow used in their organizational roles."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "Token participation with no effect on decisions.",
        "Planning a personal project with friends outside an organizational role."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
      "provenance_refs": [
        "SRC-MK-TABLE"
      ]
    },
    {
      "family_id": "QEF-D-MODEL",
      "label": "Behavioral Modeling",
      "aliases": [],
      "stack": "Decision",
      "level": "principle_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-D-GOV",
      "definition": "Choices about making desired conduct visible through one's own example.",
      "includes": [
        "Demonstrating listening or follow-through as a leader."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "Copying a leader's pace despite incompatible conditions."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
      "provenance_refs": [
        "SRC-MK-TABLE",
        "SRC-HD-TABLE"
      ]
    },
    {
      "family_id": "QEF-D-COUNTER",
      "label": "Counterparty Alignment",
      "aliases": [],
      "stack": "Decision",
      "level": "principle_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-D-GOV",
      "definition": "Choices about partners whose goals, control rights, and constraints are compatible with the proposed cooperation.",
      "includes": [
        "Partner selection based on compatible interests, decision control, or constraints.",
        "Rejecting capital whose control conditions conflict with the proposed cooperation."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "Complementary skills alone, without a claim about compatible interests or control.",
        "Assuming aligned interests guarantee capability or reliability."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
      "provenance_refs": [
        "SRC-HD-TABLE"
      ]
    },
    {
      "family_id": "QEF-D-COMPLEMENT",
      "label": "Capability Complementarity",
      "aliases": [],
      "stack": "Decision",
      "level": "principle_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-D-GOV",
      "definition": "Choices combining different capabilities so that one participant covers tasks or limitations another cannot adequately address.",
      "includes": [
        "Selecting engineering and sales partners for different required contributions.",
        "Combining operating discipline with merchandising expertise."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "Agreement on goals or control rights without complementary capabilities.",
        "Training one person to improve an existing capability.",
        "A guarantee that a complementary team will cooperate successfully."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
      "provenance_refs": [
        "SRC-HD-TABLE"
      ]
    },
    {
      "family_id": "QEF-D-RIGHTS",
      "label": "Decision Rights Design",
      "aliases": [],
      "stack": "Decision",
      "level": "parent_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-D-DES",
      "definition": "Choices about who may decide, challenge, and escalate within an organization.",
      "includes": [
        "Authority boundaries and review routes."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "Delegation without any accountability."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
      "provenance_refs": [
        "SRC-HD-TABLE"
      ]
    },
    {
      "family_id": "QEF-D-DELEGATE",
      "label": "Front-Line Delegation",
      "aliases": [],
      "stack": "Decision",
      "level": "principle_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-D-RIGHTS",
      "definition": "Choices assigning bounded authority to people close to the operational problem.",
      "includes": [
        "Allowing staff to resolve a customer issue within safeguards."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "Treating decentralization as always superior."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
      "provenance_refs": [
        "SRC-HD-TABLE"
      ]
    },
    {
      "family_id": "QEF-D-CHALLENGE",
      "label": "Challenge and Escalation",
      "aliases": [],
      "stack": "Decision",
      "level": "principle_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-D-RIGHTS",
      "definition": "Choices enabling concerns, disagreement, or exceptions to reach a responsible decision-maker.",
      "includes": [
        "Open-door access paired with a clear response route."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "Unbounded interruption or punishment of dissent."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
      "provenance_refs": [
        "SRC-MK-TABLE",
        "SRC-HD-TABLE"
      ]
    },
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      "family_id": "QEF-D-SIMPLIFY",
      "label": "Bureaucratic Simplification",
      "aliases": [],
      "stack": "Decision",
      "level": "principle_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-D-DES",
      "definition": "Choices removing process steps whose burden exceeds their demonstrated protective or coordinating value.",
      "includes": [
        "Retaining a necessary control while eliminating duplicate approvals."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "Removing safeguards solely because they are inconvenient."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
      "provenance_refs": [
        "SRC-MK-TABLE",
        "SRC-HD-TABLE"
      ]
    },
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      "family_id": "QEF-D-LEARN",
      "label": "Organizational Learning",
      "aliases": [],
      "stack": "Decision",
      "level": "parent_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-D-GOV",
      "definition": "Choices about testing, reviewing, and transferring working methods.",
      "includes": [
        "Trials, revision, and replication with feedback."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "A claim that every repeated activity improves itself."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
      "provenance_refs": [
        "SRC-MK-TABLE",
        "SRC-HD-TABLE"
      ]
    },
    {
      "family_id": "QEF-D-EXPERIMENT",
      "label": "Bounded Experimentation",
      "aliases": [],
      "stack": "Decision",
      "level": "principle_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-D-LEARN",
      "definition": "Choices using limited tests to learn while controlling exposure.",
      "includes": [
        "Testing a change with explicit limits and review criteria."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "Calling uncontrolled all-in commitment an experiment."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
      "provenance_refs": [
        "SRC-MK-TABLE",
        "SRC-HD-TABLE"
      ]
    },
    {
      "family_id": "QEF-D-ITERATE",
      "label": "Iterative Improvement",
      "aliases": [],
      "stack": "Decision",
      "level": "principle_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-D-LEARN",
      "definition": "Choices revising an existing approach from observed performance and feedback.",
      "includes": [
        "Continuing improvement with a check on the actual objective."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "Repeating the same intervention despite contrary results."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
      "provenance_refs": [
        "SRC-MK-TABLE"
      ]
    },
    {
      "family_id": "QEF-D-REPLICATE",
      "label": "Method Replication",
      "aliases": [],
      "stack": "Decision",
      "level": "principle_family",
      "parent_ref": "QEF-D-LEARN",
      "definition": "Choices making a tested method reproducible across people or settings while preserving necessary adaptation.",
      "includes": [
        "Training, examples, and checks on whether a method transfers."
      ],
      "excludes": [
        "Assuming one successful demonstration scales unchanged everywhere."
      ],
      "status": "candidate",
      "provenance_refs": [
        "SRC-MK-TABLE",
        "SRC-HD-TABLE"
      ]
    },
    {
      "family_id": "QEF-D-ENV",
      "label": "Environment Design",
      "aliases": [],
      "stack": "Decision",
      "level": "principle_family",
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            "Learning from other retailers is reported; no unit economics or structural cost advantage is supplied.",
            "The supplied cells remain unverified source accounts. This mapping neither attributes the complete authored procedure to the source nor establishes empirical support.",
            "Apply the criterion to a named customer task, feasible alternatives, authority, safety and delivery constraints.",
            "Customer dependence is not a sufficient condition for business survival; price, presentation and bundling remain conditional choices."
          ]
        }
      ],
      "interpretation_cautions": [
        "Customer response is one dependency, not a sufficient explanation of business failure or success.",
        "A particular warehouse format, price policy or bundled product is not universally required by this criterion.",
        "Supplied accounts are source material, not independently verified support for this reusable definition or procedure."
      ],
      "notes": "Candidate maintained definition for batch 001. Source paraphrases, authoring additions and case reports have separate lineage; no external validation is asserted."
    },
    {
      "card_id": "QE-FOLLOW-THROUGH",
      "title": "Complete or Explicitly Renegotiate Commitments",
      "card_kind": "principle",
      "canonical_principle": "For an acknowledged commitment, track it to completion or explicitly communicate and agree a feasible revision rather than leave it silently unresolved.",
      "primary_role_ref": "D1",
      "status": "Provisional",
      "version": "qe-canonical-batch-001-0.1.1",
      "evidence_status": "not_externally_validated",
      "shared_scope": {
        "conditions": [
          {
            "condition_id": "S1",
            "kind": "applicability",
            "statement": "An identifiable commitment has been acknowledged by a responsible actor, with a completion condition that is agreed or can be clarified."
          }
        ],
        "review": "reviewed",
        "review_note": "Scope separates the reusable concept from particular organizations and case outcomes."
      },
      "stack_roles": [
        {
          "role_id": "D1",
          "stack": "Decision",
          "role_type": "decision_implication",
          "principle_type": "Procedural",
          "classification": {
            "status": "classified",
            "family_ref": "QEF-D-FOLLOW",
            "taxonomy_version": "qe-ontology-0.1.4",
            "reason": "Describes a policy and procedure for completing or explicitly renegotiating commitments, the membership criterion of Follow-Through, not a family for each communication action."
          },
          "role_summary": "Track an acknowledged commitment through verified completion or legitimate cancellation. An accepted revision updates the still-active obligation; closing an old version must preserve a linked active successor for any remaining work.",
          "compressed_role_insight": "Agree revised terms, keep remaining work active; silence is not closure.",
          "mechanism_or_logic": "Recording responsibility, completion criteria and current terms makes outstanding work visible. Keep delivery, revision agreement and release from the obligation distinct: accepting new terms changes what remains due; it does not by itself complete the work.",
          "scope": {
            "shared_condition_refs": [
              "S1"
            ],
            "additional_conditions": [
              {
                "condition_id": "D-CONTACT",
                "kind": "applicability",
                "statement": "A legitimate channel exists to clarify the obligation with the affected party or escalate it to a responsible authority."
              },
              {
                "condition_id": "D-EXCLUDE",
                "kind": "boundary",
                "statement": "The procedure would require performing an unsafe or prohibited act merely to honor the original promise."
              }
            ],
            "review": "reviewed",
            "review_note": "Reviewed as a reusable definition; case satisfaction and empirical support are not established."
          },
          "evidence_refs": [
            "EV-MK-P07-C1",
            "EV-MK-P07-C2"
          ],
          "interpretation_cautions": [],
          "retrieval_cues": [
            "A promised response or delivery has no recorded resolution.",
            "A task is marked done although the recipient never accepted its revision."
          ],
          "objective": {
            "beneficiary": "The responsible actor and people relying on the commitment",
            "desired_outcome": "Avoid silently abandoned obligations by completing them, keeping revised work actively tracked, or recording a legitimate release from the remaining obligation",
            "constraints": [
              "Respect higher-priority duties, safety and applicable obligations.",
              "Do not declare a unilateral revision accepted.",
              "Use the agreed timing or clarify timing; no universal response deadline is prescribed."
            ]
          },
          "failure_mode_if_misapplied": "Blind persistence can honor an obsolete or harmful promise. Closing an accepted postponement without active tracking of remaining work can conceal abandonment; silence or unilateral changes do not establish agreement.",
          "action_protocol": {
            "trigger_conditions": [
              "An acknowledged commitment is due for action or its completion is threatened."
            ],
            "steps": [
              "Record the commitment, responsible actor, affected party, completion test and agreed timing; clarify missing terms.",
              "Check feasible delivery against conflicting duties and constraints. Perform and verify the agreed action when it remains appropriate.",
              "When delivery is threatened, notify the affected party promptly through a legitimate channel and state the obstacle and feasible proposed revision.",
              "Record acceptance, rejection or no response separately. Rejection or no response leaves the obligation open and unresolved under its existing terms unless a legitimate release applies; clarify or escalate rather than claim agreement. A proposed deadline does not establish acceptance; silence is not consent.",
              "When a revision is accepted, update the terms, responsible actor, completion test and timing on the active obligation. Alternatively, mark the old version superseded only after creating and linking an active successor that carries all remaining work. Acceptance of a postponed deadline is not delivery, and closing the negotiation does not close the obligation.",
              "Mark completed only after verifying the applicable completion test. Record legitimate cancellation or discharge separately, including who or what authorized the release and which remaining duties it covers; any unreleased work stays active. Superseded is a record-version status, not proof of completion or cancellation.",
              "Review due and revised commitments until their remaining work is completed or legitimately released. Check that every superseded record links to the continuing record and that revised dates stay in the active follow-up process; investigate repeated misses rather than hide them in a checklist."
            ],
            "review_signals": [
              {
                "signal": "Commitments remain open after the stated completion time.",
                "interpretation": "There may be missed work, unclear criteria or an unresolved revision.",
                "decision_use": "Confirm the status with the affected party instead of marking the item done."
              },
              {
                "signal": "Revisions are repeatedly proposed without acknowledgment.",
                "interpretation": "The tracking system may be recording intent rather than agreement.",
                "decision_use": "Escalate or clarify through the legitimate channel; do not fabricate acceptance."
              },
              {
                "signal": "A revision is accepted or an old record is closed, but remaining work has no active record with current terms.",
                "interpretation": "Agreement or record supersession may have been mistaken for delivery.",
                "decision_use": "Restore active tracking of all remaining work, on the current record or a linked successor; do not report it as completed."
              }
            ],
            "limitations": [
              "A written record cannot prove delivery or acceptance by itself.",
              "This method does not resolve the substantive priority of conflicting legal, ethical or organizational duties.",
              "Closing a revision discussion or superseding an old record does not discharge remaining work. This procedure records legitimate releases but does not decide who has legal or organizational authority to grant one."
            ]
          }
        }
      ],
      "bridge_relations": [],
      "bridges": [],
      "concept_relations": [],
      "source_references": [
        "SRC-ROW-MK-P07"
      ],
      "evidence_assessments": [
        {
          "assessment_id": "EV-MK-P07-C1",
          "source_ref": "SRC-ROW-MK-P07",
          "source_location": "QE contribution MK-P07/C1 at data/interpretation/supplied-contributions.md:69; selected columns: Principle, Core meaning. Reported media locations remain at source-row level.",
          "inspected_material": "supplied_text",
          "target_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-FOLLOW-THROUGH",
            "role_id": "D1",
            "field": "role_summary"
          },
          "relation": "inspired_by",
          "support_status": "inspiration_only",
          "rationale": "Extract a bounded shared criterion or claim, not equivalence of complete passages. Use the commitment-completion rule as the seed. Explicit renegotiation and a completion test are QE authoring additions, not source paraphrases.",
          "limitations": [
            "Unfulfillable commitments may require explicit renegotiation; this is not a rule of unlimited persistence.",
            "The supplied cells remain unverified source accounts. This mapping neither attributes the complete authored procedure to the source nor establishes empirical support.",
            "Apply the procedure only to an acknowledged commitment with a clarifiable completion test.",
            "Explicit agreement to revision, recording acceptance separately from silence and conflict handling are QE-added requirements."
          ]
        },
        {
          "assessment_id": "EV-MK-P07-C2",
          "source_ref": "SRC-ROW-MK-P07",
          "source_location": "QE contribution MK-P07/C2 at data/interpretation/supplied-contributions.md:70; selected columns: How it shows up in the transcript. Reported media locations remain at source-row level.",
          "inspected_material": "supplied_text",
          "target_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-FOLLOW-THROUGH",
            "role_id": "D1",
            "field": "role_summary"
          },
          "relation": "illustrates",
          "support_status": "illustration_only",
          "rationale": "Retain this contextual practice as an illustration of the card's decision criterion, not its universal prescription. Returning calls and closing follow-up obligations instantiate the completion rule when a commitment exists; do not mint sibling identities for each action.",
          "limitations": [
            "The account does not specify service deadlines or a complete follow-up system.",
            "The supplied cells remain unverified source accounts. This mapping neither attributes the complete authored procedure to the source nor establishes empirical support.",
            "Apply the procedure only to an acknowledged commitment with a clarifiable completion test.",
            "Explicit agreement to revision, recording acceptance separately from silence and conflict handling are QE-added requirements."
          ]
        }
      ],
      "case_observations": [],
      "narrative_anchors": [
        {
          "anchor_id": "N-MK-P07-C2",
          "kind": "supplied_case",
          "summary": "Return calls, answer letters and track customer follow-up.",
          "source_ref": "SRC-ROW-MK-P07",
          "target_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-FOLLOW-THROUGH",
            "role_id": "D1",
            "field": "role_summary"
          },
          "anchor_role": "illustration",
          "correspondence": "Retain this contextual practice as an illustration of the card's decision criterion, not its universal prescription. Returning calls and closing follow-up obligations instantiate the completion rule when a commitment exists; do not mint sibling identities for each action.",
          "limitations": [
            "The account does not specify service deadlines or a complete follow-up system.",
            "The supplied cells remain unverified source accounts. This mapping neither attributes the complete authored procedure to the source nor establishes empirical support.",
            "Apply the procedure only to an acknowledged commitment with a clarifiable completion test.",
            "Explicit agreement to revision, recording acceptance separately from silence and conflict handling are QE-added requirements."
          ]
        }
      ],
      "interpretation_cautions": [
        "A voluntary follow-up contact is not automatically an acknowledged obligation.",
        "Explicit renegotiation, the completion check and exception handling are QE additions, not literal Mary Kay instructions.",
        "Supplied accounts are source material, not independently verified support for this reusable definition or procedure."
      ],
      "notes": "Candidate maintained definition for batch 001. Source paraphrases, authoring additions and case reports have separate lineage; no external validation is asserted. Acceptance repair V02 distinguishes a revised active obligation, a superseded record, verified completion and legitimate cancellation; the source does not supply this record-handling procedure. See docs/QE-CANONICAL-ACCEPTANCE-REPAIRS.md."
    },
    {
      "card_id": "QE-RECOGNITION-DESIGN",
      "title": "Design Meaningful Recognition",
      "card_kind": "principle",
      "canonical_principle": "When acknowledging a contribution, choose credible, proportionate recognition that fits the recipient and context, without assuming a universal performance effect.",
      "primary_role_ref": "D1",
      "status": "Provisional",
      "version": "qe-canonical-batch-001-0.1.0",
      "evidence_status": "not_externally_validated",
      "shared_scope": {
        "conditions": [
          {
            "condition_id": "S1",
            "kind": "applicability",
            "statement": "An organizational contribution, recipient and context for acknowledgment can be identified."
          }
        ],
        "review": "reviewed",
        "review_note": "Scope separates the reusable concept from particular organizations and case outcomes."
      },
      "stack_roles": [
        {
          "role_id": "D1",
          "stack": "Decision",
          "role_type": "design_implication",
          "principle_type": "Procedural",
          "classification": {
            "status": "classified",
            "family_ref": "QEF-D-RECOG",
            "taxonomy_version": "qe-ontology-0.1.4",
            "reason": "Selects what contribution to acknowledge and how acknowledgment is delivered, the Recognition Design criterion, rather than specifying compensation eligibility."
          },
          "role_summary": "Choose credible, proportionate acknowledgment of an identifiable contribution that fits the recipient and setting; review its effects rather than assume it improves performance.",
          "compressed_role_insight": "Recognize the contribution in a form that fits the person.",
          "mechanism_or_logic": "Specific acknowledgment can make a contribution visible, but its meaning depends on the recipient and social context. Credibility, fairness and privacy constrain the choice independently of any hoped-for motivational effect.",
          "scope": {
            "shared_condition_refs": [
              "S1"
            ],
            "additional_conditions": [
              {
                "condition_id": "D-BASIS",
                "kind": "applicability",
                "statement": "A credible basis for attributing the contribution and a permitted way to assess recipient and context fit are available."
              },
              {
                "condition_id": "D-AUTH",
                "kind": "applicability",
                "statement": "The actor can choose acknowledgment within available resources, privacy requirements and any compensation or award obligations."
              },
              {
                "condition_id": "D-EXCLUDE",
                "kind": "boundary",
                "statement": "Recognition would disclose protected information, humiliate a recipient or replace an owed payment or required corrective action."
              }
            ],
            "review": "reviewed",
            "review_note": "Reviewed as a reusable definition; case satisfaction and empirical support are not established."
          },
          "evidence_refs": [
            "EV-MK-P03-C2",
            "EV-MK-P04-C2",
            "EV-MK-I06-C1",
            "EV-HD-P13-C3"
          ],
          "interpretation_cautions": [],
          "retrieval_cues": [],
          "objective": {
            "beneficiary": "The contributor and affected organizational participants",
            "desired_outcome": "Acknowledge useful contribution in a credible and context-appropriate way",
            "constraints": [
              "Preserve fairness, proportional cost and privacy.",
              "Respect the recipient's preferences about public exposure where they can be established.",
              "Do not substitute praise or symbolic prizes for owed compensation or necessary feedback."
            ]
          },
          "failure_mode_if_misapplied": "Public or status-linked praise can embarrass recipients, reward misleading proxies or create perceptions of favoritism.",
          "action_protocol": {
            "trigger_conditions": [
              "There is an occasion to acknowledge an identifiable organizational contribution."
            ],
            "steps": [
              "Identify the actual contribution and check attribution before deciding whom or what to recognize.",
              "Consider private versus public acknowledgment, recipient preferences, cultural context and fair treatment of similar contributors.",
              "Choose a specific, proportionate form within the available authority and resources; do not promise a universal motivational effect.",
              "Deliver acknowledgment without disclosing protected information or implying that dignity or payment must be earned through praise.",
              "Review recipient response, perceived fairness and subsequent conduct. Change the form or pause it when it produces embarrassment, rivalry or misleading incentives."
            ],
            "review_signals": [
              {
                "signal": "Recipient response differs from the intended acknowledgment.",
                "interpretation": "Visibility or symbolism may not fit the person or context.",
                "decision_use": "Ask through a permitted channel and adjust the form."
              },
              {
                "signal": "Recognized behavior improves while other useful work is neglected.",
                "interpretation": "Recognition may have become a consequential target or omit important contributions.",
                "decision_use": "Review the selected contribution and reward criteria separately; praise is not a complete incentive system."
              }
            ],
            "limitations": [
              "Recipient response is not a controlled estimate of motivational effectiveness.",
              "The procedure is QE authoring; the supplied rows do not contain this full fairness/privacy review."
            ]
          }
        },
        {
          "role_id": "O1",
          "stack": "Ontological",
          "role_type": "world_mechanic",
          "principle_type": "Dynamic",
          "classification": {
            "status": "classified",
            "family_ref": "QEF-O-RECOG",
            "taxonomy_version": "qe-ontology-0.1.4",
            "reason": "Explains perceived acknowledgment or status influencing motivation or behavior, matching Recognition Sensitivity without prescribing an intervention."
          },
          "role_summary": "Perceived acknowledgment or status can influence motivation and conduct, with direction and strength depending on the recipient and setting.",
          "compressed_role_insight": "Recognition can change behavior; its effects vary.",
          "mechanism_or_logic": "Acknowledgment can change perceived significance, expectations or status. Those changes may affect effort, but the available accounts do not isolate the mechanism or establish superiority over other forms of feedback.",
          "scope": {
            "shared_condition_refs": [
              "S1"
            ],
            "additional_conditions": [],
            "review": "reviewed",
            "review_note": "Reviewed as a reusable definition; case satisfaction and empirical support are not established."
          },
          "evidence_refs": [
            "EV-MK-P04-C1",
            "EV-MK-I06-C2"
          ],
          "interpretation_cautions": [
            "A reported comparison with criticism or cash is not independently established.",
            "A response in one recipient does not prove universal effect."
          ],
          "retrieval_cues": []
        }
      ],
      "bridge_relations": [
        {
          "relation_id": "R1",
          "from_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-RECOGNITION-DESIGN",
            "role_id": "O1"
          },
          "relation_type": "grounds",
          "to_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-RECOGNITION-DESIGN",
            "role_id": "D1"
          },
          "rationale": "Potential and variable responses justify examining the fit and effects of acknowledgment under D1's explicit goal and constraints. The explanatory possibility does not entail a duty to maximize performance through praise.",
          "scope": {
            "shared_condition_refs": [
              "S1"
            ],
            "additional_conditions": [],
            "review": "reviewed",
            "review_note": "Reviewed as a reusable definition; case satisfaction and empirical support are not established."
          },
          "evidence_refs": []
        }
      ],
      "bridges": [],
      "concept_relations": [],
      "source_references": [
        "SRC-ROW-MK-P03",
        "SRC-ROW-MK-P04",
        "SRC-ROW-MK-I06",
        "SRC-ROW-HD-P13"
      ],
      "evidence_assessments": [
        {
          "assessment_id": "EV-MK-P03-C2",
          "source_ref": "SRC-ROW-MK-P03",
          "source_location": "QE contribution MK-P03/C2 at data/interpretation/supplied-contributions.md:34; selected columns: How it shows up in the transcript. Reported media locations remain at source-row level.",
          "inspected_material": "supplied_text",
          "target_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-RECOGNITION-DESIGN",
            "role_id": "D1",
            "field": "role_summary"
          },
          "relation": "inspired_by",
          "support_status": "inspiration_only",
          "rationale": "Extract a bounded shared criterion or claim, not equivalence of complete passages. Use only the explicit acknowledgment-design component. General respectful treatment remains broader and is not declared equivalent.",
          "limitations": [
            "Respect is a related treatment standard, not exhausted by recognition; no universal performance effect is inferred.",
            "The supplied cells remain unverified source accounts. This mapping neither attributes the complete authored procedure to the source nor establishes empirical support.",
            "Check attribution, recipient/context fit, proportionality, privacy and fairness; recognition does not replace dignity or owed payment.",
            "No universal performance advantage over cash or criticism is asserted. The full review procedure is QE authoring."
          ]
        },
        {
          "assessment_id": "EV-MK-P04-C1",
          "source_ref": "SRC-ROW-MK-P04",
          "source_location": "QE contribution MK-P04/C1 at data/interpretation/supplied-contributions.md:42; selected columns: Core meaning. Reported media locations remain at source-row level.",
          "inspected_material": "supplied_text",
          "target_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-RECOGNITION-DESIGN",
            "role_id": "O1",
            "field": "role_summary"
          },
          "relation": "inspired_by",
          "support_status": "inspiration_only",
          "rationale": "Map this separate explanatory contribution to the card containing that reasoning role, not to an equivalent recommendation. Retain the acknowledgment-response claim as a distinct explanation. The claimed advantage over criticism remains visible and unverified, not a D1 rule.",
          "limitations": [
            "Comparative superiority over criticism is a source assertion, not an established effect.",
            "The supplied cells remain unverified source accounts. This mapping neither attributes the complete authored procedure to the source nor establishes empirical support.",
            "Check attribution, recipient/context fit, proportionality, privacy and fairness; recognition does not replace dignity or owed payment.",
            "No universal performance advantage over cash or criticism is asserted. The full review procedure is QE authoring."
          ]
        },
        {
          "assessment_id": "EV-MK-P04-C2",
          "source_ref": "SRC-ROW-MK-P04",
          "source_location": "QE contribution MK-P04/C2 at data/interpretation/supplied-contributions.md:43; selected columns: Principle, How it shows up in the transcript. Reported media locations remain at source-row level.",
          "inspected_material": "supplied_text",
          "target_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-RECOGNITION-DESIGN",
            "role_id": "D1",
            "field": "role_summary"
          },
          "relation": "illustrates",
          "support_status": "illustration_only",
          "rationale": "Retain this contextual practice as an illustration of the card's decision criterion, not its universal prescription. Preserve public praise and symbolic rewards as contextual ways of recognizing achievement, not separate cards or required reward forms.",
          "limitations": [
            "Pins, rings, prizes and cars are examples, not separate families or a universal reward prescription.",
            "The supplied cells remain unverified source accounts. This mapping neither attributes the complete authored procedure to the source nor establishes empirical support.",
            "Check attribution, recipient/context fit, proportionality, privacy and fairness; recognition does not replace dignity or owed payment.",
            "No universal performance advantage over cash or criticism is asserted. The full review procedure is QE authoring."
          ]
        },
        {
          "assessment_id": "EV-MK-I06-C1",
          "source_ref": "SRC-ROW-MK-I06",
          "source_location": "QE contribution MK-I06/C1 at data/interpretation/supplied-contributions.md:270; selected columns: Idea, Evidence from transcript. Reported media locations remain at source-row level.",
          "inspected_material": "supplied_text",
          "target_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-RECOGNITION-DESIGN",
            "role_id": "D1",
            "field": "role_summary"
          },
          "relation": "inspired_by",
          "support_status": "inspiration_only",
          "rationale": "Extract a bounded shared criterion or claim, not equivalence of complete passages. Use the choice of meaningful acknowledgment as a shared subset with MK-P03/C2; visibility is recipient/context dependent rather than mandatory public praise.",
          "limitations": [
            "Rings, cars and ceremonies are illustrative choices, not necessary components.",
            "The supplied cells remain unverified source accounts. This mapping neither attributes the complete authored procedure to the source nor establishes empirical support.",
            "Check attribution, recipient/context fit, proportionality, privacy and fairness; recognition does not replace dignity or owed payment.",
            "No universal performance advantage over cash or criticism is asserted. The full review procedure is QE authoring."
          ]
        },
        {
          "assessment_id": "EV-MK-I06-C2",
          "source_ref": "SRC-ROW-MK-I06",
          "source_location": "QE contribution MK-I06/C2 at data/interpretation/supplied-contributions.md:271; selected columns: Meaning. Reported media locations remain at source-row level.",
          "inspected_material": "supplied_text",
          "target_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-RECOGNITION-DESIGN",
            "role_id": "O1",
            "field": "role_summary"
          },
          "relation": "inspired_by",
          "support_status": "inspiration_only",
          "rationale": "Map this separate explanatory contribution to the card containing that reasoning role, not to an equivalent recommendation. Keep the motivation claim distinct from D1; differing response to status and cash is not established superiority of symbolic rewards.",
          "limitations": [
            "The claimed advantage over cash is not established for every person or context.",
            "The supplied cells remain unverified source accounts. This mapping neither attributes the complete authored procedure to the source nor establishes empirical support.",
            "Check attribution, recipient/context fit, proportionality, privacy and fairness; recognition does not replace dignity or owed payment.",
            "No universal performance advantage over cash or criticism is asserted. The full review procedure is QE authoring."
          ]
        },
        {
          "assessment_id": "EV-HD-P13-C3",
          "source_ref": "SRC-ROW-HD-P13",
          "source_location": "QE contribution HD-P13/C3 at data/interpretation/supplied-contributions.md:454; selected columns: How it shows up in the transcript. Reported media locations remain at source-row level.",
          "inspected_material": "supplied_text",
          "target_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-RECOGNITION-DESIGN",
            "role_id": "D1",
            "field": "role_summary"
          },
          "relation": "illustrates",
          "support_status": "illustration_only",
          "rationale": "Retain this contextual practice as an illustration of the card's decision criterion, not its universal prescription. Retain inclusion of hourly associates as a recognition-recipient policy; it does not prescribe eligibility criteria or demonstrate motivation effects.",
          "limitations": [
            "Recognition is inferred from the reward example; eligibility rules and effects on motivation are unknown.",
            "The supplied cells remain unverified source accounts. This mapping neither attributes the complete authored procedure to the source nor establishes empirical support.",
            "Check attribution, recipient/context fit, proportionality, privacy and fairness; recognition does not replace dignity or owed payment.",
            "No universal performance advantage over cash or criticism is asserted. The full review procedure is QE authoring."
          ]
        }
      ],
      "case_observations": [],
      "narrative_anchors": [
        {
          "anchor_id": "N-MK-P04-C2",
          "kind": "supplied_case",
          "summary": "Use public praise and visible achievement rewards to recognize contribution.",
          "source_ref": "SRC-ROW-MK-P04",
          "target_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-RECOGNITION-DESIGN",
            "role_id": "D1",
            "field": "role_summary"
          },
          "anchor_role": "illustration",
          "correspondence": "Retain this contextual practice as an illustration of the card's decision criterion, not its universal prescription. Preserve public praise and symbolic rewards as contextual ways of recognizing achievement, not separate cards or required reward forms.",
          "limitations": [
            "Pins, rings, prizes and cars are examples, not separate families or a universal reward prescription.",
            "The supplied cells remain unverified source accounts. This mapping neither attributes the complete authored procedure to the source nor establishes empirical support.",
            "Check attribution, recipient/context fit, proportionality, privacy and fairness; recognition does not replace dignity or owed payment.",
            "No universal performance advantage over cash or criticism is asserted. The full review procedure is QE authoring."
          ]
        },
        {
          "anchor_id": "N-HD-P13-C3",
          "kind": "supplied_case",
          "summary": "The supplied account reports that Olympic rewards went heavily to hourly associates.",
          "source_ref": "SRC-ROW-HD-P13",
          "target_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
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            "role_id": "D1",
            "field": "role_summary"
          },
          "anchor_role": "illustration",
          "correspondence": "QE-derived recommendation (not the reported event): Include hourly associates when choosing whom to recognize and reward publicly. Retain this contextual practice as an illustration of the card's decision criterion, not its universal prescription. Retain inclusion of hourly associates as a recognition-recipient policy; it does not prescribe eligibility criteria or demonstrate motivation effects.",
          "limitations": [
            "Recognition is inferred from the reward example; eligibility rules and effects on motivation are unknown.",
            "The supplied cells remain unverified source accounts. This mapping neither attributes the complete authored procedure to the source nor establishes empirical support.",
            "Check attribution, recipient/context fit, proportionality, privacy and fairness; recognition does not replace dignity or owed payment.",
            "No universal performance advantage over cash or criticism is asserted. The full review procedure is QE authoring."
          ]
        }
      ],
      "interpretation_cautions": [
        "General dignity is owed independently of achievement; recognition is not a substitute for respectful treatment.",
        "Symbolic rewards are not known here to outperform cash or criticism, and public praise is not suitable for every recipient.",
        "Supplied accounts are source material, not independently verified support for this reusable definition or procedure."
      ],
      "notes": "Candidate maintained definition for batch 001. Source paraphrases, authoring additions and case reports have separate lineage; no external validation is asserted."
    },
    {
      "card_id": "QE-EX-INCENTIVES",
      "title": "Outcome-Aligned Rewards",
      "card_kind": "principle",
      "canonical_principle": "Reward design should be checked against the behavior and outcomes it is intended to encourage.",
      "primary_role_ref": "D1",
      "status": "Provisional",
      "version": "qe-canonical-batch-001-0.1.0",
      "evidence_status": "not_externally_validated",
      "shared_scope": {
        "conditions": [
          {
            "condition_id": "S1",
            "kind": "applicability",
            "statement": "An organization can change consequential rewards and observe relevant behavior."
          }
        ],
        "review": "reviewed",
        "review_note": "Reviewed as a reusable definition. Historical examples do not establish empirical validity or case applicability."
      },
      "stack_roles": [
        {
          "role_id": "O1",
          "stack": "Ontological",
          "role_type": "world_mechanic",
          "principle_type": "Dynamic",
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            "status": "classified",
            "family_ref": "QEF-O-TGT",
            "reason": "Describes changed action priorities in response to rewarded targets.",
            "taxonomy_version": "qe-ontology-0.1.4"
          },
          "role_summary": "Rewarded targets may change which actions people prioritize.",
          "compressed_role_insight": "Rewards can redirect priorities.",
          "mechanism_or_logic": "Apply the shared target-adaptation explanation to the proposed reward rule.",
          "scope": {
            "shared_condition_refs": [
              "S1"
            ],
            "additional_conditions": [],
            "review": "reviewed",
            "review_note": "Definition compatibility reviewed independently of source support and application facts."
          },
          "evidence_refs": [
            "EV-MK-I03-C2",
            "EV-MK-I09-C1"
          ]
        },
        {
          "role_id": "D1",
          "stack": "Decision",
          "role_type": "design_implication",
          "principle_type": "Strategic",
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            "status": "classified",
            "family_ref": "QEF-D-INC",
            "reason": "Selects and tests consequences attached to behavior, fitting Incentive Design.",
            "taxonomy_version": "qe-ontology-0.1.4"
          },
          "role_summary": "Test whether the reward rule favors the intended contribution rather than a convenient proxy.",
          "compressed_role_insight": "Reward the contribution, not only its proxy.",
          "mechanism_or_logic": "Given the intended outcome, compare likely responses before committing to the reward rule.",
          "scope": {
            "shared_condition_refs": [
              "S1"
            ],
            "additional_conditions": [
              {
                "condition_id": "D-RULE",
                "kind": "applicability",
                "statement": "The proposed reward, its eligibility rule and the intended contribution can be stated separately."
              },
              {
                "condition_id": "D-REVIEW",
                "kind": "applicability",
                "statement": "The actor has authority to review the reward rule and a feasible way to examine desired outcomes and harmful shortcuts beyond the rewarded count alone."
              }
            ],
            "review": "reviewed",
            "review_note": "Definition compatibility reviewed independently of source support and application facts."
          },
          "evidence_refs": [
            "EV-MK-P20-C2",
            "EV-MK-I03-C1",
            "EV-MK-I07-C1",
            "EV-MK-I07-C2",
            "EV-MK-I09-C2",
            "EV-MK-I13-C1"
          ],
          "objective": {
            "beneficiary": "The organization and participants",
            "desired_outcome": "Encourage useful contribution without harmful shortcuts",
            "constraints": [
              "Preserve fairness and proportional review costs."
            ]
          },
          "failure_mode_if_misapplied": "Trying to control every behavior through rewards can displace judgment and intrinsic motives.",
          "action_protocol": {
            "trigger_conditions": [
              "A consequential reward rule is being designed or reviewed."
            ],
            "steps": [
              "State the intended contribution, beneficiaries, eligibility rule and reward separately.",
              "List plausible helpful responses and shortcuts, including displacement of unmeasured work; label these as hypotheses, not established predictions.",
              "Compare the rule with feasible alternatives, including no new reward, against fairness, review cost and the intended outcomes.",
              "Choose only a permitted, feasible rule with a review point; withhold commitment when material harm or fairness concerns are unresolved.",
              "Examine outcome quality and distribution as well as the rewarded count. Revise or discontinue the rule when observed conduct undermines the stated objective."
            ],
            "review_signals": [
              {
                "signal": "Rewarded counts rise while independently examined outcome quality does not.",
                "interpretation": "The criterion may reward a proxy or omit relevant work; other explanations remain possible.",
                "decision_use": "Investigate the divergence before increasing the reward."
              },
              {
                "signal": "Some participants win by reducing others' ability to contribute.",
                "interpretation": "Eligibility may introduce avoidable rivalry or exclusion.",
                "decision_use": "Compare alternatives without assuming multiple-winner rules solve every conflict."
              }
            ],
            "limitations": [
              "Performance advancement, sales criteria and nonexclusive thresholds are contextual alternatives, not one equivalent reward formula.",
              "This is a QE-authored review procedure; the supplied rows do not provide controlled trials or all implementation details."
            ]
          }
        }
      ],
      "bridge_relations": [
        {
          "relation_id": "R1",
          "from_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-EX-INCENTIVES",
            "role_id": "O1"
          },
          "relation_type": "grounds",
          "to_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-EX-INCENTIVES",
            "role_id": "D1"
          },
          "rationale": "Given the named objective, possible behavioral adaptation warrants examining reward alignment.",
          "scope": {
            "shared_condition_refs": [
              "S1"
            ],
            "additional_conditions": [],
            "review": "reviewed",
            "review_note": "Reviewed for this illustrative case; no general applicability claim."
          },
          "evidence_refs": []
        }
      ],
      "bridges": [],
      "concept_relations": [
        {
          "relation_id": "U1",
          "from_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-EX-INCENTIVES",
            "role_id": "O1"
          },
          "relation_type": "uses",
          "to_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-EX-TARGETS",
            "role_id": "O1"
          },
          "rationale": "Reuse the same target-adaptation explanation for reward design; this link is not independent evidence.",
          "scope": {
            "shared_condition_refs": [
              "S1"
            ],
            "additional_conditions": [],
            "review": "reviewed",
            "review_note": "Reviewed for this illustrative case; no general applicability claim."
          },
          "evidence_refs": []
        }
      ],
      "source_references": [
        "SRC-ROW-MK-P20",
        "SRC-ROW-MK-I03",
        "SRC-ROW-MK-I07",
        "SRC-ROW-MK-I09",
        "SRC-ROW-MK-I13"
      ],
      "evidence_assessments": [
        {
          "assessment_id": "EV-MK-P20-C2",
          "source_ref": "SRC-ROW-MK-P20",
          "source_location": "QE contribution MK-P20/C2 at data/interpretation/supplied-contributions.md:188; selected columns: How it shows up in the transcript. Reported media locations remain at source-row level.",
          "inspected_material": "supplied_text",
          "target_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-EX-INCENTIVES",
            "role_id": "D1",
            "field": "role_summary"
          },
          "relation": "inspired_by",
          "support_status": "inspiration_only",
          "rationale": "Extract a bounded shared criterion or claim, not equivalence of complete passages. Use the choice to revise consequences that undermine an intended outcome. Preserve the source's underspecified reward mechanics and QE conditional wording.",
          "limitations": [
            "The conditional intervention is inferred from the example; the actual reward rules are unspecified.",
            "The supplied cells remain unverified source accounts. This mapping neither attributes the complete authored procedure to the source nor establishes empirical support.",
            "Restrict the reused adaptation explanation to actors able to influence consequential targets; broader system claims are not equated with it.",
            "Specify the intended contribution, reward eligibility, authority, fairness and feasible outcome review; no particular reward policy is universally superior."
          ]
        },
        {
          "assessment_id": "EV-MK-I03-C1",
          "source_ref": "SRC-ROW-MK-I03",
          "source_location": "QE contribution MK-I03/C1 at data/interpretation/supplied-contributions.md:242; selected columns: Idea. Reported media locations remain at source-row level.",
          "inspected_material": "supplied_text",
          "target_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-EX-INCENTIVES",
            "role_id": "D1",
            "field": "role_summary"
          },
          "relation": "inspired_by",
          "support_status": "inspiration_only",
          "rationale": "Extract a bounded shared criterion or claim, not equivalence of complete passages. Use the intended-conduct criterion shared with the reward-design card; it is a recommendation, not proof of its effectiveness.",
          "limitations": [
            "The title supplies no specific reward formula or implementation.",
            "The supplied cells remain unverified source accounts. This mapping neither attributes the complete authored procedure to the source nor establishes empirical support.",
            "Restrict the reused adaptation explanation to actors able to influence consequential targets; broader system claims are not equated with it.",
            "Specify the intended contribution, reward eligibility, authority, fairness and feasible outcome review; no particular reward policy is universally superior."
          ]
        },
        {
          "assessment_id": "EV-MK-I03-C2",
          "source_ref": "SRC-ROW-MK-I03",
          "source_location": "QE contribution MK-I03/C2 at data/interpretation/supplied-contributions.md:243; selected columns: Meaning. Reported media locations remain at source-row level.",
          "inspected_material": "supplied_text",
          "target_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-EX-INCENTIVES",
            "role_id": "O1",
            "field": "role_summary"
          },
          "relation": "inspired_by",
          "support_status": "inspiration_only",
          "rationale": "Map this separate explanatory contribution to the card containing that reasoning role, not to an equivalent recommendation. Retain the consequence-sensitive behavior explanation as a distinct contribution; use the existing target-adaptation provider only for its scoped subset, not all system effects.",
          "limitations": [
            "Incentives do not explain every motive; destruction is not treated as inevitable.",
            "The supplied cells remain unverified source accounts. This mapping neither attributes the complete authored procedure to the source nor establishes empirical support.",
            "Restrict the reused adaptation explanation to actors able to influence consequential targets; broader system claims are not equated with it.",
            "Specify the intended contribution, reward eligibility, authority, fairness and feasible outcome review; no particular reward policy is universally superior."
          ]
        },
        {
          "assessment_id": "EV-CASE-MK-I03-C3",
          "source_ref": "SRC-ROW-MK-I03",
          "source_location": "QE contribution MK-I03/C3 at data/interpretation/supplied-contributions.md:244; selected columns: Evidence from transcript. Reported media locations remain at source-row level.",
          "inspected_material": "supplied_text",
          "target_ref": {
            "kind": "observation",
            "card_id": "QE-EX-INCENTIVES",
            "observation_id": "OBS-MK-I03-C3",
            "field": "statement"
          },
          "relation": "supports",
          "support_status": "source_assertion_only",
          "rationale": "The supplied row reports this case assertion. This establishes attribution to that supplied account, not historical truth or a general law.",
          "limitations": [
            "The prior and replacement incentive rules are not given.",
            "Case report only; no general causal or motivational conclusion is verified."
          ]
        },
        {
          "assessment_id": "EV-MK-I07-C1",
          "source_ref": "SRC-ROW-MK-I07",
          "source_location": "QE contribution MK-I07/C1 at data/interpretation/supplied-contributions.md:279; selected columns: Idea, Meaning. Reported media locations remain at source-row level.",
          "inspected_material": "supplied_text",
          "target_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-EX-INCENTIVES",
            "role_id": "D1",
            "field": "role_summary"
          },
          "relation": "illustrates",
          "support_status": "illustration_only",
          "rationale": "Retain this contextual practice as an illustration of the card's decision criterion, not its universal prescription. Retain performance-linked advancement as one reward-design policy. Its fairness and anti-political objective are not equivalent to all outcome-aligned rewards.",
          "limitations": [
            "Clear performance criteria may still be incomplete or biased.",
            "The supplied cells remain unverified source accounts. This mapping neither attributes the complete authored procedure to the source nor establishes empirical support.",
            "Restrict the reused adaptation explanation to actors able to influence consequential targets; broader system claims are not equated with it.",
            "Specify the intended contribution, reward eligibility, authority, fairness and feasible outcome review; no particular reward policy is universally superior."
          ]
        },
        {
          "assessment_id": "EV-MK-I07-C2",
          "source_ref": "SRC-ROW-MK-I07",
          "source_location": "QE contribution MK-I07/C2 at data/interpretation/supplied-contributions.md:280; selected columns: Evidence from transcript. Reported media locations remain at source-row level.",
          "inspected_material": "supplied_text",
          "target_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-EX-INCENTIVES",
            "role_id": "D1",
            "field": "role_summary"
          },
          "relation": "illustrates",
          "support_status": "illustration_only",
          "rationale": "Retain this contextual practice as an illustration of the card's decision criterion, not its universal prescription. Preserve sales-based advancement as a contextual implementation; do not equate the sales metric with merit or verified fair treatment.",
          "limitations": [
            "Sales are not a complete measure of merit; fairness and the claimed historical practice remain unverified.",
            "The supplied cells remain unverified source accounts. This mapping neither attributes the complete authored procedure to the source nor establishes empirical support.",
            "Restrict the reused adaptation explanation to actors able to influence consequential targets; broader system claims are not equated with it.",
            "Specify the intended contribution, reward eligibility, authority, fairness and feasible outcome review; no particular reward policy is universally superior."
          ]
        },
        {
          "assessment_id": "EV-MK-I09-C1",
          "source_ref": "SRC-ROW-MK-I09",
          "source_location": "QE contribution MK-I09/C1 at data/interpretation/supplied-contributions.md:297; selected columns: Idea, Meaning. Reported media locations remain at source-row level.",
          "inspected_material": "supplied_text",
          "target_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-EX-INCENTIVES",
            "role_id": "O1",
            "field": "role_summary"
          },
          "relation": "inspired_by",
          "support_status": "inspiration_only",
          "rationale": "Map this separate explanatory contribution to the card containing that reasoning role, not to an equivalent recommendation. Preserve the cooperation-response hypothesis separately from the award rule. Nonexclusive eligibility need not cause cooperation in every setting.",
          "limitations": [
            "Cooperation is a proposed response, not guaranteed by nonexclusive awards.",
            "The supplied cells remain unverified source accounts. This mapping neither attributes the complete authored procedure to the source nor establishes empirical support.",
            "Restrict the reused adaptation explanation to actors able to influence consequential targets; broader system claims are not equated with it.",
            "Specify the intended contribution, reward eligibility, authority, fairness and feasible outcome review; no particular reward policy is universally superior."
          ]
        },
        {
          "assessment_id": "EV-MK-I09-C2",
          "source_ref": "SRC-ROW-MK-I09",
          "source_location": "QE contribution MK-I09/C2 at data/interpretation/supplied-contributions.md:298; selected columns: Evidence from transcript. Reported media locations remain at source-row level.",
          "inspected_material": "supplied_text",
          "target_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-EX-INCENTIVES",
            "role_id": "D1",
            "field": "role_summary"
          },
          "relation": "illustrates",
          "support_status": "illustration_only",
          "rationale": "Retain this contextual practice as an illustration of the card's decision criterion, not its universal prescription. Keep multiple-winner threshold eligibility as one practice, not identical to merit advancement or proof of aligned outcomes.",
          "limitations": [
            "Target quality and possible gaming still need review; this is not equal rewards regardless of contribution.",
            "The supplied cells remain unverified source accounts. This mapping neither attributes the complete authored procedure to the source nor establishes empirical support.",
            "Restrict the reused adaptation explanation to actors able to influence consequential targets; broader system claims are not equated with it.",
            "Specify the intended contribution, reward eligibility, authority, fairness and feasible outcome review; no particular reward policy is universally superior."
          ]
        },
        {
          "assessment_id": "EV-MK-I13-C1",
          "source_ref": "SRC-ROW-MK-I13",
          "source_location": "QE contribution MK-I13/C1 at data/interpretation/supplied-contributions.md:334; selected columns: Idea, Meaning. Reported media locations remain at source-row level.",
          "inspected_material": "supplied_text",
          "target_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-EX-INCENTIVES",
            "role_id": "D1",
            "field": "role_summary"
          },
          "relation": "inspired_by",
          "support_status": "inspiration_only",
          "rationale": "Extract a bounded shared criterion or claim, not equivalence of complete passages. Use the bounded reward/value alignment recommendation; preserve its QE synthesis label and do not assert that all culture reduces to incentives.",
          "limitations": [
            "The normative alignment instruction is QE synthesis; values can matter through channels other than incentives.",
            "The supplied cells remain unverified source accounts. This mapping neither attributes the complete authored procedure to the source nor establishes empirical support.",
            "Restrict the reused adaptation explanation to actors able to influence consequential targets; broader system claims are not equated with it.",
            "Specify the intended contribution, reward eligibility, authority, fairness and feasible outcome review; no particular reward policy is universally superior."
          ]
        }
      ],
      "narrative_anchors": [
        {
          "anchor_id": "N-MK-I03-C3",
          "kind": "supplied_case",
          "summary": "The supplied account describes reversing incentive arrangements experienced at prior employers.",
          "source_ref": "SRC-ROW-MK-I03",
          "target_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-EX-INCENTIVES",
            "role_id": "O1",
            "field": "role_summary"
          },
          "anchor_role": "illustration",
          "correspondence": "Retain the prior-employer redesign account as a reported illustration; absent before/after rules prevent treating it as a validated causal comparison.",
          "limitations": [
            "The prior and replacement incentive rules are not given.",
            "Case report only; no general causal or motivational conclusion is verified."
          ]
        },
        {
          "anchor_id": "N-MK-I07-C1",
          "kind": "supplied_case",
          "summary": "Base advancement on relevant performance rather than connections or inherited status.",
          "source_ref": "SRC-ROW-MK-I07",
          "target_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-EX-INCENTIVES",
            "role_id": "D1",
            "field": "role_summary"
          },
          "anchor_role": "illustration",
          "correspondence": "Retain this contextual practice as an illustration of the card's decision criterion, not its universal prescription. Retain performance-linked advancement as one reward-design policy. Its fairness and anti-political objective are not equivalent to all outcome-aligned rewards.",
          "limitations": [
            "Clear performance criteria may still be incomplete or biased.",
            "The supplied cells remain unverified source accounts. This mapping neither attributes the complete authored procedure to the source nor establishes empirical support.",
            "Restrict the reused adaptation explanation to actors able to influence consequential targets; broader system claims are not equated with it.",
            "Specify the intended contribution, reward eligibility, authority, fairness and feasible outcome review; no particular reward policy is universally superior."
          ]
        },
        {
          "anchor_id": "N-MK-I07-C2",
          "kind": "supplied_case",
          "summary": "Use sales results as an advancement criterion rather than gender or background.",
          "source_ref": "SRC-ROW-MK-I07",
          "target_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-EX-INCENTIVES",
            "role_id": "D1",
            "field": "role_summary"
          },
          "anchor_role": "illustration",
          "correspondence": "Retain this contextual practice as an illustration of the card's decision criterion, not its universal prescription. Preserve sales-based advancement as a contextual implementation; do not equate the sales metric with merit or verified fair treatment.",
          "limitations": [
            "Sales are not a complete measure of merit; fairness and the claimed historical practice remain unverified.",
            "The supplied cells remain unverified source accounts. This mapping neither attributes the complete authored procedure to the source nor establishes empirical support.",
            "Restrict the reused adaptation explanation to actors able to influence consequential targets; broader system claims are not equated with it.",
            "Specify the intended contribution, reward eligibility, authority, fairness and feasible outcome review; no particular reward policy is universally superior."
          ]
        },
        {
          "anchor_id": "N-MK-I09-C2",
          "kind": "supplied_case",
          "summary": "Allow every participant who reaches the target to qualify for the award.",
          "source_ref": "SRC-ROW-MK-I09",
          "target_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-EX-INCENTIVES",
            "role_id": "D1",
            "field": "role_summary"
          },
          "anchor_role": "illustration",
          "correspondence": "Retain this contextual practice as an illustration of the card's decision criterion, not its universal prescription. Keep multiple-winner threshold eligibility as one practice, not identical to merit advancement or proof of aligned outcomes.",
          "limitations": [
            "Target quality and possible gaming still need review; this is not equal rewards regardless of contribution.",
            "The supplied cells remain unverified source accounts. This mapping neither attributes the complete authored procedure to the source nor establishes empirical support.",
            "Restrict the reused adaptation explanation to actors able to influence consequential targets; broader system claims are not equated with it.",
            "Specify the intended contribution, reward eligibility, authority, fairness and feasible outcome review; no particular reward policy is universally superior."
          ]
        }
      ],
      "interpretation_cautions": [
        "Rewards are not assumed to dominate all motives or guarantee the desired response.",
        "Supplied accounts are source material, not independently verified support for this reusable definition or procedure."
      ],
      "notes": "Maintained successor of the pinned architecture example under the same concept ID. The frozen fixture is historical, not a second writable current definition. See data/canonical/manifest.json for lineage and additions.",
      "case_observations": [
        {
          "observation_id": "OBS-MK-I03-C3",
          "kind": "reported_case",
          "context": "MK-I03: Design incentives carefully",
          "statement": "The supplied account describes reversing incentive arrangements experienced at prior employers.",
          "evidence_refs": [
            "EV-CASE-MK-I03-C3"
          ],
          "limitations": [
            "The prior and replacement incentive rules are not given.",
            "Case report only; no general causal or motivational conclusion is verified."
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "card_id": "QE-EX-SECOND",
      "title": "Second-Order Thinking",
      "card_kind": "mental_model",
      "canonical_principle": "A reasoning method for mapping and checking material consequences beyond an action's immediate effect.",
      "primary_role_ref": "E1",
      "status": "Provisional",
      "version": "qe-canonical-batch-001-0.1.1",
      "evidence_status": "not_externally_validated",
      "shared_scope": {
        "conditions": [
          {
            "condition_id": "S1",
            "kind": "applicability",
            "statement": "Dependencies or adaptive responses could materially change the outcome of an action."
          }
        ],
        "review": "reviewed",
        "review_note": "Reviewed as a reusable definition. Historical examples do not establish empirical validity or case applicability."
      },
      "stack_roles": [
        {
          "role_id": "O1",
          "stack": "Ontological",
          "role_type": "world_mechanic",
          "principle_type": "Dynamic",
          "classification": {
            "status": "partial",
            "family_ref": "QEF-O-PROP",
            "reason": "Describes transmission of effects through dependencies, not the method for tracing them. Migration: propagation is now an intermediate grouping; no narrower subtype is inferred.",
            "taxonomy_version": "qe-ontology-0.1.4"
          },
          "role_summary": "An initial change can affect dependent parts or prompt later responses.",
          "compressed_role_insight": "Consequences can extend beyond the first effect.",
          "mechanism_or_logic": "Dependencies transmit change; response strength and timing vary by situation.",
          "scope": {
            "shared_condition_refs": [
              "S1"
            ],
            "additional_conditions": [],
            "review": "reviewed",
            "review_note": "Definition compatibility reviewed independently of source support and application facts."
          },
          "evidence_refs": []
        },
        {
          "role_id": "E1",
          "stack": "Epistemic",
          "role_type": "reasoning_method",
          "principle_type": "Procedural",
          "classification": {
            "status": "classified",
            "family_ref": "QEF-E-CAUSE",
            "reason": "Constructs and revises causal maps; evaluation of links supports that construction rather than defining the whole task.",
            "taxonomy_version": "qe-ontology-0.1.4"
          },
          "role_summary": "Map plausible downstream consequences and challenge the uncertain links.",
          "compressed_role_insight": "Ask what follows, then check the links.",
          "mechanism_or_logic": "Separate a proposed causal link from the observations used to assess it. Compare material links with plausible alternatives, revise the map when observations conflict with a link, and carry missing or inconclusive checks forward as explicit uncertainty rather than a verified forecast.",
          "scope": {
            "shared_condition_refs": [
              "S1"
            ],
            "additional_conditions": [
              {
                "condition_id": "E-INPUT",
                "kind": "applicability",
                "statement": "A candidate action, an initial outcome hypothesis and a decision time budget can be specified; uncertain links can be kept explicit."
              }
            ],
            "review": "reviewed",
            "review_note": "Definition compatibility reviewed independently of source support and application facts."
          },
          "evidence_refs": [],
          "method": {
            "representation": "Nodes are actions or consequences; links are conditional causal hypotheses. Each material link has a check record: proposed mechanism, serious alternative, distinguishing observation, available information and its limits, result (supported in the examined context, contradicted in that context, unresolved after checking, or not checked), and the resulting map revision or retained uncertainty.",
            "steps": [
              "Specify the action and immediate outcome.",
              "Ask which dependency or actor response follows.",
              "Name a rival consequence and uncertainty at each material link.",
              "For each link that could change the choice, state the mechanism and a serious alternative, then name an observation, prediction or counterexample that could distinguish them. Prioritize checks by decision relevance and the available time; do not investigate every conceivable link.",
              "Inspect relevant available observations, records or comparisons against both accounts. Record what was examined, its context and limitations, and whether it supports the link in that context, contradicts it, or leaves it unresolved. When no usable information is available or the check cannot be made within the time budget, mark the link not checked and record why; merely naming an alternative is not a completed check.",
              "Revise, qualify or remove a contradicted link and reconsider its downstream consequences. Retain only the support warranted by the examined context; an observation consistent with a link need not establish causation. Carry unresolved and not-checked links as conditional assumptions, and compare whether plausible alternatives would change the decision.",
              "Stop when additional detail is unlikely to change the decision within its time budget. Return the conditional map with check records, revisions and outstanding uncertainties; do not label unchecked links as checked conclusions."
            ],
            "limitations": [
              "Later effects can be highly uncertain.",
              "The method does not prove policy or business outcomes.",
              "Available observations may be selective, confounded or from a different setting. Contextual support is not proof that the proposed mechanism caused the observation.",
              "Unresolved after checking and not checked are different outcomes. A deadline ends the review, not the uncertainty; neither outcome may be silently promoted to support."
            ]
          }
        },
        {
          "role_id": "D1",
          "stack": "Decision",
          "role_type": "decision_implication",
          "principle_type": "Strategic",
          "classification": {
            "status": "classified",
            "family_ref": "QEF-D-DOWN",
            "reason": "Compares options using later consequences under an explicit selection objective.",
            "taxonomy_version": "qe-ontology-0.1.4"
          },
          "role_summary": "Compare options using material downstream effects, then choose within the decision deadline.",
          "compressed_role_insight": "Consider downstream effects without endless analysis.",
          "mechanism_or_logic": "This procedure compares conditional maps and explicit check records produced by E1, including any unresolved or not-checked links. It requires E1; independently supplied scenarios would need a separately justified procedure. Performing E1 does not imply that every link was testable or supported.",
          "scope": {
            "shared_condition_refs": [
              "S1"
            ],
            "additional_conditions": [
              {
                "condition_id": "D-OPTIONS",
                "kind": "applicability",
                "statement": "Feasible options, the affected parties' objective and a decision deadline can be stated for comparison."
              }
            ],
            "review": "reviewed",
            "review_note": "Definition compatibility reviewed independently of source support and application facts."
          },
          "evidence_refs": [],
          "objective": {
            "beneficiary": "The decision-maker and affected parties",
            "desired_outcome": "Choose an option with acceptable immediate and downstream consequences",
            "constraints": [
              "Respect the decision deadline.",
              "Do not assume that the longest horizon always dominates."
            ]
          },
          "failure_mode_if_misapplied": "Speculative consequence chains can create analysis paralysis.",
          "action_protocol": {
            "trigger_conditions": [
              "Before a consequential decision with material dependencies."
            ],
            "steps": [
              "Use E1 to construct at least two plausible outcome chains and retain the check record for each material link, including unresolved or not-checked results.",
              "Compare feasible options against the stated objective and deadline. For unresolved or not-checked links, compare plausible alternatives and identify whether the choice would change; do not treat the favored story as established.",
              "Choose within the deadline and record the material assumptions, outstanding checks and observations that should prompt reconsideration. When the available scenarios do not justify a preferred option, record that limit rather than invent certainty."
            ],
            "review_signals": [
              {
                "signal": "Observed effects versus the recorded conditional scenarios.",
                "interpretation": "A mismatch may challenge a link or an assumption rather than the entire method.",
                "decision_use": "Update the relevant model before repeating the decision."
              }
            ],
            "limitations": [
              "A single outcome cannot establish general predictive accuracy.",
              "A conditionally applicable entry only establishes that recorded prerequisites are met; it does not establish that E1 was executed or any causal link was supported."
            ]
          }
        }
      ],
      "bridge_relations": [
        {
          "relation_id": "R1",
          "from_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-EX-SECOND",
            "role_id": "O1"
          },
          "relation_type": "grounds",
          "to_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-EX-SECOND",
            "role_id": "E1"
          },
          "rationale": "Dependencies justify examining later effects, not assuming every speculative chain occurs.",
          "scope": {
            "shared_condition_refs": [
              "S1"
            ],
            "additional_conditions": [],
            "review": "reviewed",
            "review_note": "Reviewed for this illustrative case; no general applicability claim."
          },
          "evidence_refs": []
        },
        {
          "relation_id": "R2",
          "from_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-EX-SECOND",
            "role_id": "E1"
          },
          "relation_type": "grounds",
          "to_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-EX-SECOND",
            "role_id": "D1"
          },
          "rationale": "Given D1's objective and deadline, scoped scenario comparison can inform the choice.",
          "scope": {
            "shared_condition_refs": [
              "S1"
            ],
            "additional_conditions": [],
            "review": "reviewed",
            "review_note": "Reviewed for this illustrative case; no general applicability claim."
          },
          "evidence_refs": []
        },
        {
          "relation_id": "R3",
          "from_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-EX-SECOND",
            "role_id": "D1"
          },
          "relation_type": "requires",
          "to_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-EX-SECOND",
            "role_id": "E1"
          },
          "rationale": "D1 explicitly uses E1's conditional maps and check records, including unresolved or not-checked links. E1 is therefore a prerequisite of this procedure, not merely an optional supporting argument. This does not make every grounds relation a dependency or turn a check into causal proof.",
          "scope": {
            "shared_condition_refs": [
              "S1"
            ],
            "additional_conditions": [],
            "review": "reviewed",
            "review_note": "The dependency is part of the specified procedure; its review is distinct from whether a particular case meets the conditions."
          },
          "evidence_refs": []
        }
      ],
      "bridges": [],
      "concept_relations": [],
      "source_references": [],
      "evidence_assessments": [],
      "narrative_anchors": [],
      "interpretation_cautions": [
        "A longer causal story is not automatically more accurate; analysis must respect available time.",
        "Supplied accounts are source material, not independently verified support for this reusable definition or procedure."
      ],
      "notes": "Maintained successor of the pinned architecture example under the same concept ID. The frozen fixture is historical, not a second writable current definition. See data/canonical/manifest.json for lineage and additions. Acceptance repair V01 explicitly refines E1 link checking and D1 use of the check records; the earlier fixture and batch revision remain historical. See docs/QE-CANONICAL-ACCEPTANCE-REPAIRS.md.",
      "case_observations": []
    },
    {
      "card_id": "QE-EX-TARGETS",
      "title": "Consequential Targets and Behavior",
      "card_kind": "principle",
      "canonical_principle": "When people can influence a measure attached to meaningful consequences, they may adapt behavior toward that measure.",
      "primary_role_ref": "O1",
      "status": "Provisional",
      "version": "qe-release-fixture-0.1.4",
      "evidence_status": "not_externally_validated",
      "shared_scope": {
        "conditions": [
          {
            "condition_id": "S1",
            "kind": "applicability",
            "statement": "Adaptive actors can influence a measure tied to consequences they care about."
          }
        ],
        "review": "reviewed",
        "review_note": "Illustrative shared context reviewed; this is not empirical validation."
      },
      "stack_roles": [
        {
          "role_id": "O1",
          "stack": "Ontological",
          "role_type": "world_mechanic",
          "principle_type": "Dynamic",
          "classification": {
            "status": "classified",
            "family_ref": "QEF-O-TGT",
            "reason": "Describes behavioral response to a consequential target, satisfying Target-Driven Adaptation rather than prescribing reward design.",
            "taxonomy_version": "qe-ontology-0.1.4"
          },
          "role_summary": "Consequential targets can redirect effort toward rewarded measures, whether or not the wider goal improves.",
          "compressed_role_insight": "Consequential targets can redirect behavior.",
          "mechanism_or_logic": "Consequences change the perceived value of available actions; actors may change effort allocation.",
          "scope": {
            "shared_condition_refs": [
              "S1"
            ],
            "additional_conditions": [],
            "review": "reviewed",
            "review_note": "Reviewed for this illustrative case; no general applicability claim."
          },
          "evidence_refs": [],
          "retrieval_cues": [
            "Targets changed and behavior shifted."
          ]
        }
      ],
      "bridge_relations": [],
      "bridges": [],
      "concept_relations": [],
      "source_references": [],
      "evidence_assessments": [],
      "narrative_anchors": [],
      "interpretation_cautions": [
        "Not a claim about all passive measurement or about inevitable gaming."
      ]
    },
    {
      "card_id": "QE48-C01",
      "title": "Opportunity Cost",
      "card_kind": "principle",
      "canonical_principle": "A scarce-resource commitment has a counterfactual cost: the value of the best feasible alternative it displaces under a specified objective and horizon.",
      "primary_role_ref": "D1",
      "status": "Provisional",
      "version": "qe-card-pilot-0.1.0",
      "evidence_status": "source_reviewed",
      "shared_scope": {
        "conditions": [
          {
            "condition_id": "S1",
            "kind": "applicability",
            "statement": "A choice commits a limited resource among competing feasible uses within a stated horizon."
          }
        ],
        "review": "reviewed",
        "review_note": "Bounded authoring review; does not establish editorial acceptance or actual applicability."
      },
      "stack_roles": [
        {
          "role_id": "O1",
          "stack": "Ontological",
          "role_type": "world_mechanic",
          "principle_type": "Structural",
          "classification": {
            "status": "classified",
            "family_ref": "QEF-O-SCAR",
            "taxonomy_version": "qe-ontology-0.1.4",
            "reason": "The contribution describes competing feasible demands for a limited resource, rather than recommending a winner."
          },
          "role_summary": "Committing scarce resources to a feasible choice displaces alternatives; its opportunity cost is the value of the best feasible displaced alternative under the same objective and horizon.",
          "compressed_role_insight": "Count the best feasible alternative displaced, not every alternative added together.",
          "mechanism_or_logic": "Mutually exclusive uses cannot receive the same committed resource at the same time. Comparing the best displaced use identifies a counterfactual value; it is neither an additional invoice nor a sum of incompatible alternatives.",
          "scope": {
            "shared_condition_refs": [
              "S1"
            ],
            "additional_conditions": [],
            "review": "reviewed",
            "review_note": "Internal definition compatibility review only; editorial acceptance, case facts and empirical validation remain separate."
          },
          "evidence_refs": [
            "EV1"
          ]
        },
        {
          "role_id": "D1",
          "stack": "Decision",
          "role_type": "decision_implication",
          "principle_type": "Procedural",
          "classification": {
            "status": "partial",
            "family_ref": "QEF-D-RESOURCE",
            "taxonomy_version": "qe-ontology-0.1.4",
            "reason": "Allocating constrained resources among feasible alternatives fits Resource Allocation; no terminal family is justified for the general comparison."
          },
          "role_summary": "Before committing scarce resources, compare feasible alternatives and their displaced value under a stated objective, horizon and constraints; retain material uncertainty and avoid double-counting resource costs.",
          "compressed_role_insight": "Compare what the choice delivers with what the best feasible alternative could deliver.",
          "mechanism_or_logic": "An explicit counterfactual makes the cost of exclusion visible. A common objective allows comparison, while scenario ranges prevent uncertain values from masquerading as observed facts.",
          "scope": {
            "shared_condition_refs": [
              "S1"
            ],
            "additional_conditions": [
              {
                "condition_id": "D-OPTIONS",
                "kind": "applicability",
                "statement": "Feasible alternatives can be specified with their shared resource requirements; include no change when feasible and permitted."
              },
              {
                "condition_id": "D-VALUES",
                "kind": "applicability",
                "statement": "Decision-relevant values or defensible ranges under the same objective and horizon are available for comparing alternatives."
              },
              {
                "condition_id": "D-AUTH",
                "kind": "applicability",
                "statement": "The decision-maker can assess obligations and resource constraints and has authority for the contemplated allocation."
              }
            ],
            "review": "reviewed",
            "review_note": "Internal definition compatibility review only; editorial acceptance, case facts and empirical validation remain separate."
          },
          "evidence_refs": [],
          "objective": {
            "beneficiary": "The responsible resource owner and affected stakeholders",
            "desired_outcome": "Select a feasible use justified against its best displaced alternative",
            "constraints": [
              "Respect obligations, safety and the available resource budget.",
              "Keep the objective and horizon consistent across options.",
              "Retain uncertainty and avoid counting a forgone resource value twice."
            ]
          },
          "failure_mode_if_misapplied": "An infeasible alternative, a changed objective or double-counted expense can make a beneficial choice appear wasteful; a numeric score can conceal unassessed obligations.",
          "action_protocol": {
            "trigger_conditions": [
              "A commitment would exclude another feasible use of a scarce resource."
            ],
            "steps": [
              "Name the resource owner, objective, horizon, constraints and actual decision authority.",
              "List feasible alternatives or bundles, including no change when feasible and permitted, and identify which uses each commitment displaces.",
              "Estimate comparable net outcomes or ranges; state whether resource costs are already included so they are not subtracted again.",
              "Compare the best displaced feasible alternative with the proposed choice. If missing values or conflicting objectives prevent a defensible comparison, keep the result unresolved.",
              "Record the selected option, assumptions and reconsideration threshold; revisit when feasibility, values or objectives change."
            ],
            "review_signals": [
              {
                "signal": "A new feasible option, material value revision or changed constraint.",
                "interpretation": "The recorded comparison may no longer describe the relevant choice.",
                "decision_use": "Reassess feasibility and the stated objective before relying on the result."
              }
            ],
            "limitations": [
              "This is a comparison procedure, not a universal optimizer or a financial recommendation.",
              "A reported preference does not prove that the selected objective is appropriate."
            ]
          }
        },
        {
          "role_id": "D2",
          "stack": "Decision",
          "role_type": "decision_implication",
          "principle_type": "Procedural",
          "classification": {
            "status": "partial",
            "family_ref": "QEF-D-RESOURCE",
            "taxonomy_version": "qe-ontology-0.1.4",
            "reason": "A scoped incremental allocation choice remains in Resource Allocation, not a new family or a universal leverage mechanism."
          },
          "role_summary": "For feasible divisible increments sharing one binding resource and a common objective, compare incremental value per unit and recompute after each increment. Stop using this local ranking when indivisibility, complementarities, increasing-return thresholds or interacting constraints require bundle comparison, even when already modeled.",
          "compressed_role_insight": "Compare feasible next increments; use bundles when increments cannot stand alone.",
          "mechanism_or_logic": "Marginal values describe the next change, not an option’s average historic return. Updating them avoids fixed rankings after diminishing returns. Without the recorded assumptions, a locally attractive increment can block a better feasible bundle.",
          "scope": {
            "shared_condition_refs": [
              "S1"
            ],
            "additional_conditions": [
              {
                "condition_id": "D2-INPUT",
                "kind": "applicability",
                "statement": "Feasible increments and their estimated incremental values and resource use are available under a common objective and horizon."
              },
              {
                "condition_id": "D2-RESOURCE",
                "kind": "applicability",
                "statement": "One shared binding resource has a known remaining budget, and useful increments are divisible."
              },
              {
                "condition_id": "D2-INTERACTION",
                "kind": "applicability",
                "statement": "Values have no relevant complementarities or increasing-return thresholds, whether modeled or unmodeled, and there are no other interacting binding constraints."
              },
              {
                "condition_id": "D2-AUTH",
                "kind": "applicability",
                "statement": "The resource owner can assess relevant obligations and has authority for the incremental allocation."
              }
            ],
            "review": "reviewed",
            "review_note": "Internal definition compatibility review only; editorial acceptance, case facts and empirical validation remain separate."
          },
          "evidence_refs": [],
          "objective": {
            "beneficiary": "The resource owner and affected stakeholders",
            "desired_outcome": "Choose a useful feasible next increment while retaining the ability to reassess",
            "constraints": [
              "Stay within the resource budget and applicable obligations.",
              "Use a common objective and horizon.",
              "Do not infer global optimality beyond the stated assumptions."
            ]
          },
          "failure_mode_if_misapplied": "A ratio ranking can fund attractive fragments of an indivisible project, miss complementary bundles or known increasing-return thresholds, or exhaust a resource needed by a better overall choice.",
          "action_protocol": {
            "trigger_conditions": [
              "An incremental resource-allocation choice is being considered within the recorded conditions."
            ],
            "steps": [
              "Check divisibility, one-resource comparability and obligations. Exclude relevant complementarities, increasing-return thresholds and interacting binding constraints even when already modeled; otherwise compare complete feasible bundles using D1 or another suitable method.",
              "Estimate each feasible next increment’s additional value and resource use, retaining uncertainty in the estimates.",
              "Compare incremental ratios only among currently feasible increments. Stop if no positive-value increment is justified.",
              "After an increment, update remaining budget and marginal values. If conditions cease to hold, stop this procedure and compare complete feasible bundles using D1 or another suitable method.",
              "Record assumptions and compare realized results with expectations before repeating."
            ],
            "review_signals": [
              {
                "signal": "Any relevant complementarity, increasing-return threshold, or second interacting binding resource, including one already modeled; or changed marginal values.",
                "interpretation": "The recorded comparison may no longer describe the relevant choice.",
                "decision_use": "Stop local ranking when an excluded interaction is present and compare feasible bundles; otherwise reassess the recorded conditions and marginal values."
              }
            ],
            "limitations": [
              "This bounded heuristic is QE synthesis, not recovered wording of High-leverage first.",
              "D1 is an alternative comparison when D2 is inapplicable, not an implicitly mandatory prerequisite."
            ]
          }
        }
      ],
      "bridge_relations": [
        {
          "relation_id": "R1",
          "from_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE48-C01",
            "role_id": "O1"
          },
          "relation_type": "grounds",
          "to_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE48-C01",
            "role_id": "D1"
          },
          "rationale": "When D1’s objective is accepted, resource displacement makes the best forgone feasible use relevant. The description alone supplies neither the objective nor the values.",
          "scope": {
            "shared_condition_refs": [
              "S1"
            ],
            "additional_conditions": [],
            "review": "reviewed",
            "review_note": "Internal definition compatibility review only; editorial acceptance, case facts and empirical validation remain separate."
          },
          "evidence_refs": []
        }
      ],
      "bridges": [],
      "concept_relations": [],
      "source_references": [
        "SRC-PILOT-OPENSTAX",
        "SRC-PILOT-P48-01",
        "SRC-PILOT-P48-12"
      ],
      "evidence_assessments": [
        {
          "assessment_id": "EV1",
          "source_ref": "SRC-PILOT-OPENSTAX",
          "source_location": "Section 2.1, The Concept of Opportunity Cost and Marginal Decision-Making and Diminishing Marginal Utility",
          "inspected_material": "original_source",
          "target_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE48-C01",
            "role_id": "O1",
            "field": "role_summary"
          },
          "relation": "supports",
          "support_status": "source_assertion_only",
          "rationale": "A choice sacrifices its next best alternative; marginal analysis compares the changes in benefits and costs. The assessment addresses this role summary only; formalization and procedure remain QE synthesis.",
          "limitations": [
            "One inspected conceptual passage is not an empirical validation or an independent replication.",
            "The source does not support all other roles or hypothetical cases on this Card."
          ]
        }
      ],
      "case_observations": [],
      "narrative_anchors": [],
      "interpretation_cautions": [
        "Value can be nonmonetary; this Card does not choose the objective for the user.",
        "The broader trade-off idea includes non-resource incompatibility and is not identical to opportunity cost.",
        "High-leverage first is represented by a proposed scoped D2 contribution; QE48-C12 is not merged or deleted."
      ],
      "notes": "Pilot authoring under a reserved QE48 identity. Definitions, procedures and examples are QE synthesis, with explicitly limited source assessments. No accepted identity merge or role reuse is inferred."
    },
    {
      "card_id": "QE48-C03",
      "title": "Bottleneck Throughput",
      "card_kind": "principle",
      "canonical_principle": "For a specified flow model, a binding required stage limits sustainable system output; identifying that stage requires evidence about the actual flow and its operating conditions.",
      "primary_role_ref": "O1",
      "status": "Provisional",
      "version": "qe-card-pilot-0.1.0",
      "evidence_status": "source_reviewed",
      "shared_scope": {
        "conditions": [
          {
            "condition_id": "S1",
            "kind": "applicability",
            "statement": "A process has a specified output measure and operating horizon for evaluating flow constraints."
          }
        ],
        "review": "reviewed",
        "review_note": "Bounded authoring review; does not establish editorial acceptance or actual applicability."
      },
      "stack_roles": [
        {
          "role_id": "O1",
          "stack": "Ontological",
          "role_type": "hidden_structure",
          "principle_type": "Structural",
          "classification": {
            "status": "classified",
            "family_ref": "QEF-O-BOT",
            "taxonomy_version": "qe-ontology-0.1.4",
            "reason": "A required limiting component bounds system output, meeting Bottleneck Dependence rather than asserting that every local improvement raises output."
          },
          "role_summary": "In a specified serial flow where each completed unit must pass every required stage, sustained throughput cannot exceed the lowest effective stage capacity for the same product mix and horizon; demand, outages and coordination can make actual output lower.",
          "compressed_role_insight": "The limiting required stage bounds sustained flow; it does not guarantee that output.",
          "mechanism_or_logic": "Every completed unit consumes capacity at each mandatory stage. Over a sustained interval, a stage cannot process more than its effective capacity without depleting previously accumulated inventory or changing the model. Finite buffers and variability can reduce realized throughput further.",
          "scope": {
            "shared_condition_refs": [
              "S1"
            ],
            "additional_conditions": [
              {
                "condition_id": "O-FLOW",
                "kind": "applicability",
                "statement": "The specified serial route requires each output unit to pass every modeled stage in comparable flow units."
              },
              {
                "condition_id": "O-HORIZON",
                "kind": "applicability",
                "statement": "Capacity and output are compared over the same sustained horizon with product mix, yield and opening inventory effects accounted for."
              }
            ],
            "review": "reviewed",
            "review_note": "Internal definition compatibility review only; editorial acceptance, case facts and empirical validation remain separate."
          },
          "evidence_refs": [
            "EV1"
          ]
        },
        {
          "role_id": "E1",
          "stack": "Epistemic",
          "role_type": "reasoning_method",
          "principle_type": "Procedural",
          "classification": {
            "status": "partial",
            "family_ref": "QEF-E-EVAL",
            "taxonomy_version": "qe-ontology-0.1.4",
            "reason": "The main task tests a supplied process representation and its constraint hypothesis, so Model Evaluation is justified without inventing a bottleneck-specific method family."
          },
          "role_summary": "Evaluate a proposed bottleneck against comparable flow, capacity, queue and idle-time observations, testing demand, starvation, blocking and product-mix alternatives; revise the diagnosis when conditions or constraints shift.",
          "compressed_role_insight": "Test the limiting-stage hypothesis against flow evidence and alternatives.",
          "mechanism_or_logic": "High utilization or a queue alone does not establish a system bottleneck. Comparing capacity with demand and explaining blocked or starved time distinguishes competing accounts; a diagnosis can remain conditional when relevant observations are missing.",
          "scope": {
            "shared_condition_refs": [
              "S1"
            ],
            "additional_conditions": [
              {
                "condition_id": "E-MODEL",
                "kind": "applicability",
                "statement": "A candidate flow model specifies routes, units, horizon, product mix and the proposed constraint."
              },
              {
                "condition_id": "E-DATA",
                "kind": "applicability",
                "statement": "Relevant flow, demand, capacity and queue or idle-time observations are available with stated uncertainty to compare competing explanations."
              },
              {
                "condition_id": "E-ACCOUNTING",
                "kind": "applicability",
                "statement": "Material opening and closing inventory changes, yield losses and rework are accounted for or bounded sufficiently to compare capacity and output over the same horizon."
              }
            ],
            "review": "reviewed",
            "review_note": "Internal definition compatibility review only; editorial acceptance, case facts and empirical validation remain separate."
          },
          "evidence_refs": [],
          "method": {
            "representation": "A supplied process-flow model with mandatory routes, comparable stage capacities, demand, throughput, queues and starved/blocked intervals; annotate uncertainty and the candidate limiting stage.",
            "steps": [
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      "rationale": "Map this separate explanatory contribution to the card containing that reasoning role, not to an equivalent recommendation. Preserve the cooperation-response hypothesis separately from the award rule. Nonexclusive eligibility need not cause cooperation in every setting.",
      "qualifications_added": [
        "Restrict the reused adaptation explanation to actors able to influence consequential targets; broader system claims are not equated with it.",
        "Specify the intended contribution, reward eligibility, authority, fairness and feasible outcome review; no particular reward policy is universally superior."
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "Cooperation is a proposed response, not guaranteed by nonexclusive awards.",
        "The supplied cells remain unverified source accounts. This mapping neither attributes the complete authored procedure to the source nor establishes empirical support."
      ]
    },
    {
      "mapping_id": "MAP-MK-I09-C2",
      "expression_ref": "X-MK-I09-C2",
      "target_ref": {
        "kind": "card",
        "card_id": "QE-EX-INCENTIVES"
      },
      "mapping_type": "scoped_interpretation",
      "rationale": "Retain this contextual practice as an illustration of the card's decision criterion, not its universal prescription. Keep multiple-winner threshold eligibility as one practice, not identical to merit advancement or proof of aligned outcomes.",
      "qualifications_added": [
        "Restrict the reused adaptation explanation to actors able to influence consequential targets; broader system claims are not equated with it.",
        "Specify the intended contribution, reward eligibility, authority, fairness and feasible outcome review; no particular reward policy is universally superior."
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "Target quality and possible gaming still need review; this is not equal rewards regardless of contribution.",
        "The supplied cells remain unverified source accounts. This mapping neither attributes the complete authored procedure to the source nor establishes empirical support."
      ]
    },
    {
      "mapping_id": "MAP-MK-I11-C1",
      "expression_ref": "X-MK-I11-C1",
      "target_ref": {
        "kind": "card",
        "card_id": "QE-CUSTOMER-VALUE"
      },
      "mapping_type": "scoped_interpretation",
      "rationale": "Retain this contextual practice as an illustration of the card's decision criterion, not its universal prescription. Retain the conditional complete-solution policy as an application of customer-result comparison; do not merge all bundling advice into the central statement.",
      "qualifications_added": [
        "Apply the criterion to a named customer task, feasible alternatives, authority, safety and delivery constraints.",
        "Customer dependence is not a sufficient condition for business survival; price, presentation and bundling remain conditional choices."
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "This does not justify bundling products that customers do not need.",
        "The supplied cells remain unverified source accounts. This mapping neither attributes the complete authored procedure to the source nor establishes empirical support."
      ]
    },
    {
      "mapping_id": "MAP-MK-I11-C3",
      "expression_ref": "X-MK-I11-C3",
      "target_ref": {
        "kind": "card",
        "card_id": "QE-CUSTOMER-VALUE"
      },
      "mapping_type": "scoped_interpretation",
      "rationale": "Retain this contextual practice as an illustration of the card's decision criterion, not its universal prescription. Preserve skincare-set configuration as a conditional practice; the reported referral effect is not validated or generalized to all products.",
      "qualifications_added": [
        "Apply the criterion to a named customer task, feasible alternatives, authority, safety and delivery constraints.",
        "Customer dependence is not a sufficient condition for business survival; price, presentation and bundling remain conditional choices."
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "The reported outcome/referral link does not prove all partial purchases are ineffective.",
        "The supplied cells remain unverified source accounts. This mapping neither attributes the complete authored procedure to the source nor establishes empirical support."
      ]
    },
    {
      "mapping_id": "MAP-MK-I13-C1",
      "expression_ref": "X-MK-I13-C1",
      "target_ref": {
        "kind": "card",
        "card_id": "QE-EX-INCENTIVES"
      },
      "mapping_type": "shared_claim_extraction",
      "rationale": "Extract a bounded shared criterion or claim, not equivalence of complete passages. Use the bounded reward/value alignment recommendation; preserve its QE synthesis label and do not assert that all culture reduces to incentives.",
      "qualifications_added": [
        "Restrict the reused adaptation explanation to actors able to influence consequential targets; broader system claims are not equated with it.",
        "Specify the intended contribution, reward eligibility, authority, fairness and feasible outcome review; no particular reward policy is universally superior."
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "The normative alignment instruction is QE synthesis; values can matter through channels other than incentives.",
        "The supplied cells remain unverified source accounts. This mapping neither attributes the complete authored procedure to the source nor establishes empirical support."
      ]
    },
    {
      "mapping_id": "MAP-HD-P06-C1",
      "expression_ref": "X-HD-P06-C1",
      "target_ref": {
        "kind": "card",
        "card_id": "QE-EX-TRUST"
      },
      "mapping_type": "shared_claim_extraction",
      "rationale": "Extract a bounded shared criterion or claim, not equivalence of complete passages. Use the scoped trust-to-cooperation claim; preserve limits on the broader business-success claim and dependency on the prior fixture retelling.",
      "qualifications_added": [
        "Relevant competence, incentives, safeguards and feasible cooperation remain necessary considerations; trust is not a guarantee.",
        "The credibility-assessment method and arrangement-review procedure are QE authoring, not attributed to these rows."
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "The broad success claim is narrowed; trust is not the only cause of business outcomes.",
        "The supplied cells remain unverified source accounts. This mapping neither attributes the complete authored procedure to the source nor establishes empirical support."
      ]
    },
    {
      "mapping_id": "MAP-HD-P06-C2",
      "expression_ref": "X-HD-P06-C2",
      "target_ref": {
        "kind": "card",
        "card_id": "QE-EX-TRUST"
      },
      "mapping_type": "scoped_interpretation",
      "rationale": "Retain this contextual practice as an illustration of the card's decision criterion, not its universal prescription. Keep candor with a lender as one relationship-design practice, not a sufficient condition for credit approval or a duplicate trust mechanism.",
      "qualifications_added": [
        "Relevant competence, incentives, safeguards and feasible cooperation remain necessary considerations; trust is not a guarantee.",
        "The credibility-assessment method and arrangement-review procedure are QE authoring, not attributed to these rows."
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "This generalization comes from the account; candor neither guarantees credit nor replaces controls.",
        "The supplied cells remain unverified source accounts. This mapping neither attributes the complete authored procedure to the source nor establishes empirical support."
      ]
    },
    {
      "mapping_id": "MAP-HD-P07-C1",
      "expression_ref": "X-HD-P07-C1",
      "target_ref": {
        "kind": "card",
        "card_id": "QE-CUSTOMER-VALUE"
      },
      "mapping_type": "shared_claim_extraction",
      "rationale": "Extract a bounded shared criterion or claim, not equivalence of complete passages. Use the customer-needs criterion shared with HD-P08/C1 and HD-P10/C1; retain survival qualifications rather than reproduce the slogan as a law.",
      "qualifications_added": [
        "Apply the criterion to a named customer task, feasible alternatives, authority, safety and delivery constraints.",
        "Customer dependence is not a sufficient condition for business survival; price, presentation and bundling remain conditional choices."
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "The instruction is QE synthesis of the decline claim; customer service alone does not assure survival.",
        "The supplied cells remain unverified source accounts. This mapping neither attributes the complete authored procedure to the source nor establishes empirical support."
      ]
    },
    {
      "mapping_id": "MAP-HD-P07-C2",
      "expression_ref": "X-HD-P07-C2",
      "target_ref": {
        "kind": "card",
        "card_id": "QE-CUSTOMER-VALUE"
      },
      "mapping_type": "scoped_interpretation",
      "rationale": "Map this separate explanatory contribution to the card containing that reasoning role, not to an equivalent recommendation. Retain the customer-response mechanism separately from the decision rule; the Two Guys collapse account does not establish a sufficient causal explanation.",
      "qualifications_added": [
        "Apply the criterion to a named customer task, feasible alternatives, authority, safety and delivery constraints.",
        "Customer dependence is not a sufficient condition for business survival; price, presentation and bundling remain conditional choices."
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "The Two Guys causal attribution and collapse sequence are reported, not a verified sufficient explanation.",
        "The supplied cells remain unverified source accounts. This mapping neither attributes the complete authored procedure to the source nor establishes empirical support."
      ]
    },
    {
      "mapping_id": "MAP-HD-P08-C1",
      "expression_ref": "X-HD-P08-C1",
      "target_ref": {
        "kind": "card",
        "card_id": "QE-CUSTOMER-VALUE"
      },
      "mapping_type": "shared_claim_extraction",
      "rationale": "Extract a bounded shared criterion or claim, not equivalence of complete passages. Use company-wide customer-problem resolution as the common criterion, with explicitly QE-added safety/feasibility limits on whatever it takes.",
      "qualifications_added": [
        "Apply the criterion to a named customer task, feasible alternatives, authority, safety and delivery constraints.",
        "Customer dependence is not a sufficient condition for business survival; price, presentation and bundling remain conditional choices."
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "Whatever it takes remains subject to safety, obligations, cost and feasibility.",
        "The supplied cells remain unverified source accounts. This mapping neither attributes the complete authored procedure to the source nor establishes empirical support."
      ]
    },
    {
      "mapping_id": "MAP-HD-P08-C2",
      "expression_ref": "X-HD-P08-C2",
      "target_ref": {
        "kind": "card",
        "card_id": "QE-CUSTOMER-VALUE"
      },
      "mapping_type": "scoped_interpretation",
      "rationale": "Retain this contextual practice as an illustration of the card's decision criterion, not its universal prescription. Keep external sourcing and delivery as one context-specific solution; no formal delegation authority, affordability or repeatability is inferred.",
      "qualifications_added": [
        "Apply the criterion to a named customer task, feasible alternatives, authority, safety and delivery constraints.",
        "Customer dependence is not a sufficient condition for business survival; price, presentation and bundling remain conditional choices."
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "The report supplies no authority limits, repeatability or economics for this practice.",
        "The supplied cells remain unverified source accounts. This mapping neither attributes the complete authored procedure to the source nor establishes empirical support."
      ]
    },
    {
      "mapping_id": "MAP-HD-P09-C1",
      "expression_ref": "X-HD-P09-C1",
      "target_ref": {
        "kind": "card",
        "card_id": "QE-EX-TRUST"
      },
      "mapping_type": "shared_claim_extraction",
      "rationale": "Extract a bounded shared criterion or claim, not equivalence of complete passages. Use continuing reliable interaction as the shared relationship-design subset with MK-I04/C1; loyalty remains the customer's choice.",
      "qualifications_added": [
        "Relevant competence, incentives, safeguards and feasible cooperation remain necessary considerations; trust is not a guarantee.",
        "The credibility-assessment method and arrangement-review procedure are QE authoring, not attributed to these rows."
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "The source does not supply a service frequency or a guarantee of retention.",
        "The supplied cells remain unverified source accounts. This mapping neither attributes the complete authored procedure to the source nor establishes empirical support."
      ]
    },
    {
      "mapping_id": "MAP-HD-P09-C2",
      "expression_ref": "X-HD-P09-C2",
      "target_ref": {
        "kind": "card",
        "card_id": "QE-CUSTOMER-VALUE"
      },
      "mapping_type": "scoped_interpretation",
      "rationale": "Map this separate explanatory contribution to the card containing that reasoning role, not to an equivalent recommendation. Retain dependence on customers' continuing choices as a distinct explanation, not a claim that switching is costless or service guarantees retention.",
      "qualifications_added": [
        "Apply the criterion to a named customer task, feasible alternatives, authority, safety and delivery constraints.",
        "Customer dependence is not a sufficient condition for business survival; price, presentation and bundling remain conditional choices."
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "Choice can be constrained; no claim that switching is always costless is made.",
        "The supplied cells remain unverified source accounts. This mapping neither attributes the complete authored procedure to the source nor establishes empirical support."
      ]
    },
    {
      "mapping_id": "MAP-HD-P10-C1",
      "expression_ref": "X-HD-P10-C1",
      "target_ref": {
        "kind": "card",
        "card_id": "QE-CUSTOMER-VALUE"
      },
      "mapping_type": "shared_claim_extraction",
      "rationale": "Extract a bounded shared criterion or claim, not equivalence of complete passages. Use comparison by customer-valued results as the shared criterion; the particular ranking of price, help and appearance stays context-dependent.",
      "qualifications_added": [
        "Apply the criterion to a named customer task, feasible alternatives, authority, safety and delivery constraints.",
        "Customer dependence is not a sufficient condition for business survival; price, presentation and bundling remain conditional choices."
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "Appearances may matter in other settings; the criterion requires actual customer understanding.",
        "The supplied cells remain unverified source accounts. This mapping neither attributes the complete authored procedure to the source nor establishes empirical support."
      ]
    },
    {
      "mapping_id": "MAP-HD-P10-C2",
      "expression_ref": "X-HD-P10-C2",
      "target_ref": {
        "kind": "card",
        "card_id": "QE-CUSTOMER-VALUE"
      },
      "mapping_type": "scoped_interpretation",
      "rationale": "Retain this contextual practice as an illustration of the card's decision criterion, not its universal prescription. Preserve warehouse presentation and service attributes as a specific configuration, not compulsory features of all customer-oriented offerings.",
      "qualifications_added": [
        "Apply the criterion to a named customer task, feasible alternatives, authority, safety and delivery constraints.",
        "Customer dependence is not a sufficient condition for business survival; price, presentation and bundling remain conditional choices."
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "Scuffed floors and limited decorative polish are context, not requirements for every retailer.",
        "The supplied cells remain unverified source accounts. This mapping neither attributes the complete authored procedure to the source nor establishes empirical support."
      ]
    },
    {
      "mapping_id": "MAP-HD-P11-C1",
      "expression_ref": "X-HD-P11-C1",
      "target_ref": {
        "kind": "card",
        "card_id": "QE-CUSTOMER-VALUE"
      },
      "mapping_type": "scoped_interpretation",
      "rationale": "Retain this contextual practice as an illustration of the card's decision criterion, not its universal prescription. Retain stable-value pricing as a conditional policy to evaluate, not equivalence between customer value and everyday low pricing.",
      "qualifications_added": [
        "Apply the criterion to a named customer task, feasible alternatives, authority, safety and delivery constraints.",
        "Customer dependence is not a sufficient condition for business survival; price, presentation and bundling remain conditional choices."
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "The comparative advantage is context-dependent, not a universally established result.",
        "The supplied cells remain unverified source accounts. This mapping neither attributes the complete authored procedure to the source nor establishes empirical support."
      ]
    },
    {
      "mapping_id": "MAP-HD-P11-C2",
      "expression_ref": "X-HD-P11-C2",
      "target_ref": {
        "kind": "card",
        "card_id": "QE-CUSTOMER-VALUE"
      },
      "mapping_type": "scoped_interpretation",
      "rationale": "Retain this contextual practice as an illustration of the card's decision criterion, not its universal prescription. Keep everyday low pricing as a reported implementation; no structural cost advantage or unit economics are supplied.",
      "qualifications_added": [
        "Apply the criterion to a named customer task, feasible alternatives, authority, safety and delivery constraints.",
        "Customer dependence is not a sufficient condition for business survival; price, presentation and bundling remain conditional choices."
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "Learning from other retailers is reported; no unit economics or structural cost advantage is supplied.",
        "The supplied cells remain unverified source accounts. This mapping neither attributes the complete authored procedure to the source nor establishes empirical support."
      ]
    },
    {
      "mapping_id": "MAP-HD-P13-C3",
      "expression_ref": "X-HD-P13-C3",
      "target_ref": {
        "kind": "card",
        "card_id": "QE-RECOGNITION-DESIGN"
      },
      "mapping_type": "scoped_interpretation",
      "rationale": "Retain this contextual practice as an illustration of the card's decision criterion, not its universal prescription. Retain inclusion of hourly associates as a recognition-recipient policy; it does not prescribe eligibility criteria or demonstrate motivation effects.",
      "qualifications_added": [
        "Check attribution, recipient/context fit, proportionality, privacy and fairness; recognition does not replace dignity or owed payment.",
        "No universal performance advantage over cash or criticism is asserted. The full review procedure is QE authoring."
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "Recognition is inferred from the reward example; eligibility rules and effects on motivation are unknown.",
        "The supplied cells remain unverified source accounts. This mapping neither attributes the complete authored procedure to the source nor establishes empirical support."
      ]
    },
    {
      "mapping_id": "MAP-PILOT-OPENSTAX",
      "expression_ref": "X-PILOT-OPENSTAX",
      "target_ref": {
        "kind": "card",
        "card_id": "QE48-C01"
      },
      "mapping_type": "scoped_interpretation",
      "rationale": "The passage informs the scoped contribution; the Card adds explicit applicability and interpretation limits. Related source context is not a claim of whole-passage equivalence.",
      "qualifications_added": [
        "The Card’s exact scope, role separation, procedures and hypothetical cases are QE authoring."
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "The source does not establish the complete Card, empirical reliability of its procedure or the historical intent of the supplied title."
      ]
    },
    {
      "mapping_id": "MAP-PILOT-MIT",
      "expression_ref": "X-PILOT-MIT",
      "target_ref": {
        "kind": "card",
        "card_id": "QE48-C03"
      },
      "mapping_type": "scoped_interpretation",
      "rationale": "The passage informs the scoped contribution; the Card adds explicit applicability and interpretation limits. Related source context is not a claim of whole-passage equivalence.",
      "qualifications_added": [
        "The Card’s exact scope, role separation, procedures and hypothetical cases are QE authoring."
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "The source does not establish the complete Card, empirical reliability of its procedure or the historical intent of the supplied title."
      ]
    },
    {
      "mapping_id": "MAP-PILOT-BOX",
      "expression_ref": "X-PILOT-BOX",
      "target_ref": {
        "kind": "card",
        "card_id": "QE48-C30"
      },
      "mapping_type": "scoped_interpretation",
      "rationale": "The passage informs the scoped contribution; the Card adds explicit applicability and interpretation limits. Related source context is not a claim of whole-passage equivalence.",
      "qualifications_added": [
        "The Card’s exact scope, role separation, procedures and hypothetical cases are QE authoring."
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "The source does not establish the complete Card, empirical reliability of its procedure or the historical intent of the supplied title."
      ]
    },
    {
      "mapping_id": "MAP-PILOT-P48-01",
      "expression_ref": "X-PILOT-P48-01",
      "target_ref": {
        "kind": "card",
        "card_id": "QE48-C01"
      },
      "mapping_type": "scoped_interpretation",
      "rationale": "Pilot interpretation under the reserved identity.",
      "qualifications_added": [
        "Role-specific conditions, qualified meaning and any procedure are QE synthesis."
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "Not a recovered original definition or accepted identity mapping."
      ]
    },
    {
      "mapping_id": "MAP-PILOT-P48-12",
      "expression_ref": "X-PILOT-P48-12",
      "target_ref": {
        "kind": "card",
        "card_id": "QE48-C01"
      },
      "mapping_type": "scoped_interpretation",
      "rationale": "Propose a bounded marginal-allocation contribution within Opportunity Cost; preserve the original candidate identity and do not treat this prototype route as an accepted merge.",
      "qualifications_added": [
        "Role-specific conditions, qualified meaning and any procedure are QE synthesis."
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "Not a recovered original definition or accepted identity mapping."
      ]
    },
    {
      "mapping_id": "MAP-PILOT-P48-03",
      "expression_ref": "X-PILOT-P48-03",
      "target_ref": {
        "kind": "card",
        "card_id": "QE48-C03"
      },
      "mapping_type": "scoped_interpretation",
      "rationale": "Pilot interpretation under the reserved identity.",
      "qualifications_added": [
        "Role-specific conditions, qualified meaning and any procedure are QE synthesis."
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "Not a recovered original definition or accepted identity mapping."
      ]
    },
    {
      "mapping_id": "MAP-PILOT-P48-30",
      "expression_ref": "X-PILOT-P48-30",
      "target_ref": {
        "kind": "card",
        "card_id": "QE48-C30"
      },
      "mapping_type": "scoped_interpretation",
      "rationale": "Pilot interpretation under the reserved identity.",
      "qualifications_added": [
        "Role-specific conditions, qualified meaning and any procedure are QE synthesis."
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "Not a recovered original definition or accepted identity mapping."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "normalization_cases": [
    {
      "normalization_id": "N-TRUST-D1",
      "decision": "same_scoped_concept",
      "family_ref": "QEF-D-REL",
      "mapping_refs": [
        "MAP-MK-I04-C1",
        "MAP-HD-P09-C1"
      ],
      "mechanism": "Continuing trustworthy cooperation",
      "resource": "Customer relationships",
      "objective_comparison": "Only the ongoing reliability criterion is shared; preferences for repeated transactions and ownership metaphors are not universal rules.",
      "scope_comparison": "Only the ongoing reliability criterion is shared; preferences for repeated transactions and ownership metaphors are not universal rules.",
      "rationale": "These explicit transformations retain this shared subset: Only the ongoing reliability criterion is shared; preferences for repeated transactions and ownership metaphors are not universal rules.",
      "source_independence": "User-supplied summaries; rows from one account and retellings do not establish independent evidence.",
      "limitations": [
        "Shared subset only, not whole-passage equivalence or empirical validation."
      ]
    },
    {
      "normalization_id": "N-CUSTOMER-D1",
      "decision": "same_scoped_concept",
      "family_ref": "QEF-D-CUSTOMER",
      "mapping_refs": [
        "MAP-HD-P07-C1",
        "MAP-HD-P08-C1",
        "MAP-HD-P10-C1"
      ],
      "mechanism": "Evaluate choices by customer task results",
      "resource": "Delivery resources",
      "objective_comparison": "Customer outcomes are a decision criterion subject to safety and feasibility, not a sufficient cause of survival.",
      "scope_comparison": "Customer outcomes are a decision criterion subject to safety and feasibility, not a sufficient cause of survival.",
      "rationale": "These explicit transformations retain this shared subset: Customer outcomes are a decision criterion subject to safety and feasibility, not a sufficient cause of survival.",
      "source_independence": "User-supplied summaries; rows from one account and retellings do not establish independent evidence.",
      "limitations": [
        "Shared subset only, not whole-passage equivalence or empirical validation."
      ]
    },
    {
      "normalization_id": "N-RECOGNITION-D1",
      "decision": "same_scoped_concept",
      "family_ref": "QEF-D-RECOG",
      "mapping_refs": [
        "MAP-MK-P03-C2",
        "MAP-MK-I06-C1"
      ],
      "mechanism": "Choose meaningful acknowledgment",
      "resource": "Organizational recognition",
      "objective_comparison": "Share the acknowledgment-choice component; general dignity and compulsory public praise are not equated with it.",
      "scope_comparison": "Share the acknowledgment-choice component; general dignity and compulsory public praise are not equated with it.",
      "rationale": "These explicit transformations retain this shared subset: Share the acknowledgment-choice component; general dignity and compulsory public praise are not equated with it.",
      "source_independence": "User-supplied summaries; rows from one account and retellings do not establish independent evidence.",
      "limitations": [
        "Shared subset only, not whole-passage equivalence or empirical validation."
      ]
    },
    {
      "normalization_id": "N-REWARDS-D1",
      "decision": "same_scoped_concept",
      "family_ref": "QEF-D-INC",
      "mapping_refs": [
        "MAP-MK-P20-C2",
        "MAP-MK-I03-C1",
        "MAP-MK-I13-C1"
      ],
      "mechanism": "Check behavioral consequences against intended contributions",
      "resource": "Consequential rewards",
      "objective_comparison": "A bounded reward-review criterion is shared; cultural values and all system effects do not reduce to incentives.",
      "scope_comparison": "A bounded reward-review criterion is shared; cultural values and all system effects do not reduce to incentives.",
      "rationale": "These explicit transformations retain this shared subset: A bounded reward-review criterion is shared; cultural values and all system effects do not reduce to incentives.",
      "source_independence": "User-supplied summaries; rows from one account and retellings do not establish independent evidence.",
      "limitations": [
        "Shared subset only, not whole-passage equivalence or empirical validation."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "systems": [],
  "tensions": [],
  "application_examples": [
    {
      "application_id": "APP-TRUST-READY",
      "title": "Review a small design collaboration",
      "kind": "hypothetical",
      "fixture_version": "qe-card-pilot-0.1.0",
      "entry_role_ref": {
        "kind": "role",
        "card_id": "QE-EX-TRUST",
        "role_id": "D1"
      },
      "context_summary": "A fictional studio is considering a limited design collaboration. The coordinator has relevant delivery records and a skills demonstration, an approved information-sharing channel, and pilot or decline options. Unknowns may be recorded instead of concealed.",
      "condition_assessments": [
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "card",
              "card_id": "QE-EX-TRUST"
            },
            "condition_id": "S1"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The studio and supplier can assess relevant conduct for a named cooperative business commitment."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-EX-TRUST",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "condition_id": "D-AUTH"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The coordinator may review the arrangement using the stipulated approved channel without sharing confidential customer details."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-EX-TRUST",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "condition_id": "D-OPTION"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "A limited pilot and declining the engagement can both be compared against the two parties' stated constraints."
        }
      ],
      "objective_assessments": [
        {
          "objective_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-EX-TRUST",
            "role_id": "D1",
            "field": "objective"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "Both parties seek feasible continuing cooperation; the coordinator keeps confidential information within the approved channel and compares conduct, demonstrated competence and formal terms rather than replacing due diligence with loyalty."
        }
      ],
      "activation_assessments": [
        {
          "trigger_ref": {
            "role_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-EX-TRUST",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "trigger_index": 0
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The parties are proposing a new cooperative business arrangement."
        }
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "Stipulated fictional case, not an observation about the supplied authors or companies.",
        "The result checks declared prerequisites only; it does not establish evidence quality, completed steps, an outcome or authorization."
      ]
    },
    {
      "application_id": "APP-CUSTOMER-READY",
      "title": "Compare two package-preparation services",
      "kind": "hypothetical",
      "fixture_version": "qe-card-pilot-0.1.0",
      "entry_role_ref": {
        "kind": "role",
        "card_id": "QE-CUSTOMER-VALUE",
        "role_id": "D1"
      },
      "context_summary": "A fictional supplier compares its current package-preparation service with a revised checklist for small sellers. The customer task is sending an intact, correctly labeled parcel. Staff can observe task completion and rework, and assess cost, capacity and the required seal check.",
      "condition_assessments": [
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "card",
              "card_id": "QE-CUSTOMER-VALUE"
            },
            "condition_id": "S1"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "Small sellers and the intact, correctly labeled parcel task are identified for this service choice."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-CUSTOMER-VALUE",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "condition_id": "D-INPUT"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The status quo and checklist alternative are feasible; direct inspection of task completion and rework is available."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-CUSTOMER-VALUE",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "condition_id": "D-AUTH"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The service owner has stipulated authority and can review the seal requirement, capacity, costs and service obligations."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-CUSTOMER-VALUE",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "condition_id": "D-EXCLUDE"
          },
          "state": "not_satisfied",
          "basis": "Neither comparison option ignores the required seal check, and absent observations will not be recorded as verified."
        }
      ],
      "objective_assessments": [
        {
          "objective_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-CUSTOMER-VALUE",
            "role_id": "D1",
            "field": "objective"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The customers and supplier seek useful parcel preparation within the stated staffing, cost and authority limits. Both options retain safety and service obligations. Parcel integrity and labeling, not sales volume, satisfaction or price alone, determine the task result."
        }
      ],
      "activation_assessments": [
        {
          "trigger_ref": {
            "role_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-CUSTOMER-VALUE",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "trigger_index": 0
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The proposed checklist could materially change how the specified parcel task is completed."
        }
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "Stipulated fictional case, not an observation about the supplied authors or companies.",
        "The result checks declared prerequisites only; it does not establish evidence quality, completed steps, an outcome or authorization."
      ]
    },
    {
      "application_id": "APP-FOLLOW-READY",
      "title": "Review a threatened draft-delivery commitment",
      "kind": "hypothetical",
      "fixture_version": "qe-card-pilot-0.1.0",
      "entry_role_ref": {
        "kind": "role",
        "card_id": "QE-FOLLOW-THROUGH",
        "role_id": "D1"
      },
      "context_summary": "A fictional analyst has acknowledged a draft-delivery commitment with an agreed completion test and timing. A delay is possible. The affected colleague can be contacted through the approved tracker, and a responsible manager can receive an escalation. No revision has yet been accepted.",
      "condition_assessments": [
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "card",
              "card_id": "QE-FOLLOW-THROUGH"
            },
            "condition_id": "S1"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The analyst acknowledged the draft, the completion test and timing; the responsible and affected people are named."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-FOLLOW-THROUGH",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "condition_id": "D-CONTACT"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The approved tracker reaches the colleague and provides a legitimate escalation route to the responsible manager."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-FOLLOW-THROUGH",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "condition_id": "D-EXCLUDE"
          },
          "state": "not_satisfied",
          "basis": "Reviewing, delivering or seeking revision of this draft does not require an unsafe or prohibited act."
        }
      ],
      "objective_assessments": [
        {
          "objective_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-FOLLOW-THROUGH",
            "role_id": "D1",
            "field": "objective"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The analyst and relying colleague choose to avoid abandoned obligations by keeping remaining work actively tracked, including after an accepted revision, until verified completion or a legitimate release. They respect conflicting duties and safety, never treat a proposal or silence as acceptance, and use agreed timing rather than an invented universal deadline."
        }
      ],
      "activation_assessments": [
        {
          "trigger_ref": {
            "role_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-FOLLOW-THROUGH",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "trigger_index": 0
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The acknowledged draft delivery is threatened by a possible delay."
        }
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "Stipulated fictional case, not an observation about the supplied authors or companies.",
        "The result checks declared prerequisites only; it does not establish evidence quality, completed steps, an outcome or authorization."
      ]
    },
    {
      "application_id": "APP-RECOGNITION-READY",
      "title": "Choose private acknowledgment of a documented contribution",
      "kind": "hypothetical",
      "fixture_version": "qe-card-pilot-0.1.0",
      "entry_role_ref": {
        "kind": "role",
        "card_id": "QE-RECOGNITION-DESIGN",
        "role_id": "D1"
      },
      "context_summary": "In a fictional team, two peers confirm a contributor's work on an internal guide. The recipient has indicated a preference for private acknowledgment through a permitted channel. The manager may send a specific thank-you within a small agreed resource budget. Owed pay and necessary feedback are handled separately.",
      "condition_assessments": [
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "card",
              "card_id": "QE-RECOGNITION-DESIGN"
            },
            "condition_id": "S1"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The internal guide contribution, recipient and organizational acknowledgment context are identified."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-RECOGNITION-DESIGN",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "condition_id": "D-BASIS"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The peer records support attribution, and the recipient's preference was obtained through a permitted channel."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-RECOGNITION-DESIGN",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "condition_id": "D-AUTH"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The manager has authority and resources for private acknowledgment and can respect privacy, pay and award obligations."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-RECOGNITION-DESIGN",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "condition_id": "D-EXCLUDE"
          },
          "state": "not_satisfied",
          "basis": "The private message discloses no protected material, is not intended to humiliate, and replaces neither pay nor required correction."
        }
      ],
      "objective_assessments": [
        {
          "objective_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-RECOGNITION-DESIGN",
            "role_id": "D1",
            "field": "objective"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The contributor and team seek credible acknowledgment with fair treatment of comparable work, proportionate cost and privacy. The private format fits the recorded preference, and praise is not substituted for compensation or feedback."
        }
      ],
      "activation_assessments": [
        {
          "trigger_ref": {
            "role_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-RECOGNITION-DESIGN",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "trigger_index": 0
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "Completion of the guide creates an occasion to acknowledge the identified organizational contribution."
        }
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "Stipulated fictional case, not an observation about the supplied authors or companies.",
        "The result checks declared prerequisites only; it does not establish evidence quality, completed steps, an outcome or authorization."
      ]
    },
    {
      "application_id": "APP-REWARDS-READY",
      "title": "Review a support-team reward rule",
      "kind": "hypothetical",
      "fixture_version": "qe-card-pilot-0.1.0",
      "entry_role_ref": {
        "kind": "role",
        "card_id": "QE-EX-INCENTIVES",
        "role_id": "D1"
      },
      "context_summary": "A fictional support team is reviewing recognition for resolved requests. The manager can change the consequential reward rule, observe work, distinguish eligibility from the intended helpful contribution, and sample resolution quality beyond the closed-ticket count.",
      "condition_assessments": [
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "card",
              "card_id": "QE-EX-INCENTIVES"
            },
            "condition_id": "S1"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The manager can change consequential rewards and observe the team's relevant behavior."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-EX-INCENTIVES",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "condition_id": "D-RULE"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The intended contribution is useful resolution; the proposed reward and closed-request eligibility rule are documented separately."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-EX-INCENTIVES",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "condition_id": "D-REVIEW"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The manager is authorized to review the rule and can sample actual resolution quality, neglected work and shortcuts beyond the count."
        }
      ],
      "objective_assessments": [
        {
          "objective_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-EX-INCENTIVES",
            "role_id": "D1",
            "field": "objective"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The team and organization seek useful resolution without shortcuts. The comparison considers fair access to eligible work and a review sample whose burden is proportionate to the stipulated resources."
        }
      ],
      "activation_assessments": [
        {
          "trigger_ref": {
            "role_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-EX-INCENTIVES",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "trigger_index": 0
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "A consequential reward rule is currently being reviewed."
        }
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "Stipulated fictional case, not an observation about the supplied authors or companies.",
        "The result checks declared prerequisites only; it does not establish evidence quality, completed steps, an outcome or authorization."
      ]
    },
    {
      "application_id": "APP-SECOND-READY",
      "title": "Compare a retry-policy change before a deadline",
      "kind": "hypothetical",
      "fixture_version": "qe-card-pilot-0.1.0",
      "entry_role_ref": {
        "kind": "role",
        "card_id": "QE-EX-SECOND",
        "role_id": "D1"
      },
      "context_summary": "A fictional service team must compare its current retry setting with a reduced setting. Either can affect downstream load and request completion. An initial effect hypothesis and rival consequence are available, and a thirty-minute decision budget is agreed.",
      "condition_assessments": [
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "card",
              "card_id": "QE-EX-SECOND"
            },
            "condition_id": "S1"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "Retry behavior can change downstream load and completion outcomes through dependencies and responses."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-EX-SECOND",
              "role_id": "E1"
            },
            "condition_id": "E-INPUT"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The candidate retry change, an initial load hypothesis and a thirty-minute budget are specified; uncertain links remain explicitly labeled."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-EX-SECOND",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "condition_id": "D-OPTIONS"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The status quo and reduced setting are feasible, affected parties' objective is stated, and the decision has a thirty-minute deadline."
        }
      ],
      "objective_assessments": [
        {
          "objective_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-EX-SECOND",
            "role_id": "D1",
            "field": "objective"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The team and affected service users seek acceptable immediate completion and downstream load. Comparison stays within the agreed deadline and does not automatically favor the longest horizon over immediate consequences."
        }
      ],
      "activation_assessments": [
        {
          "trigger_ref": {
            "role_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-EX-SECOND",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "trigger_index": 0
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The retry choice is a pending consequential decision with material dependencies."
        }
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "Stipulated fictional case, not an observation about the supplied authors or companies.",
        "The result checks declared prerequisites only; it does not establish evidence quality, completed steps, an outcome or authorization."
      ]
    },
    {
      "application_id": "APP-PROVIDER-READY",
      "title": "Check reuse of the shared target explanation",
      "kind": "hypothetical",
      "fixture_version": "qe-card-pilot-0.1.0",
      "entry_role_ref": {
        "kind": "role",
        "card_id": "QE-EX-INCENTIVES",
        "role_id": "O1"
      },
      "context_summary": "A fictional team is examining, not executing, the Rewards O1 explanation. The organization can change rewards and observe behavior; participants can influence a closure measure attached to consequences they care about.",
      "condition_assessments": [
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "card",
              "card_id": "QE-EX-INCENTIVES"
            },
            "condition_id": "S1"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The organization can alter consequential rewards and observe relevant behavior."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "card",
              "card_id": "QE-EX-TARGETS"
            },
            "condition_id": "S1"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "Participants can influence the closure measure and care about its consequences."
        }
      ],
      "objective_assessments": [],
      "activation_assessments": [],
      "limitations": [
        "Stipulated fictional case, not an observation about the supplied authors or companies.",
        "The result checks declared prerequisites only; it does not establish evidence quality, completed steps, an outcome or authorization."
      ]
    },
    {
      "application_id": "APP-TRUST-UNKNOWN",
      "title": "Trust: unknown",
      "kind": "hypothetical",
      "fixture_version": "qe-card-pilot-0.1.0",
      "entry_role_ref": {
        "kind": "role",
        "card_id": "QE-EX-TRUST",
        "role_id": "D1"
      },
      "context_summary": "Baseline scenario: A fictional studio is considering a limited design collaboration. The coordinator has relevant delivery records and a skills demonstration, an approved information-sharing channel, and pilot or decline options. Unknowns may be recorded instead of concealed.\nVariant override: The approved information-sharing channel has not yet been established. The proposed objective still requires confidentiality, and no disclosure is authorized by this test.\nAll other baseline stipulations remain unchanged.",
      "condition_assessments": [
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "card",
              "card_id": "QE-EX-TRUST"
            },
            "condition_id": "S1"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The studio and supplier can assess relevant conduct for a named cooperative business commitment."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-EX-TRUST",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "condition_id": "D-AUTH"
          },
          "state": "unknown",
          "basis": "Authority and a confidentiality-preserving communication channel have not been assessed."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-EX-TRUST",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "condition_id": "D-OPTION"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "A limited pilot and declining the engagement can both be compared against the two parties' stated constraints."
        }
      ],
      "objective_assessments": [
        {
          "objective_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-EX-TRUST",
            "role_id": "D1",
            "field": "objective"
          },
          "state": "unknown",
          "basis": "The cooperation objective retains confidentiality and due diligence, but feasibility of confidentiality-preserving communication has not been assessed; no actual disclosure is stipulated."
        }
      ],
      "activation_assessments": [
        {
          "trigger_ref": {
            "role_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-EX-TRUST",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "trigger_index": 0
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The parties are proposing a new cooperative business arrangement."
        }
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "Stipulated fictional case, not an observation about the supplied authors or companies.",
        "The result checks declared prerequisites only; it does not establish evidence quality, completed steps, an outcome or authorization."
      ]
    },
    {
      "application_id": "APP-TRUST-OUTSIDE",
      "title": "Trust: outside",
      "kind": "hypothetical",
      "fixture_version": "qe-card-pilot-0.1.0",
      "entry_role_ref": {
        "kind": "role",
        "card_id": "QE-EX-TRUST",
        "role_id": "D1"
      },
      "context_summary": "Baseline scenario: A fictional studio is considering a limited design collaboration. The coordinator has relevant delivery records and a skills demonstration, an approved information-sharing channel, and pilot or decline options. Unknowns may be recorded instead of concealed.\nVariant override: The proposed review objective is replaced by a demand for personal loyalty instead of due diligence. Other abilities and options remain as in the baseline.\nAll other baseline stipulations remain unchanged.",
      "condition_assessments": [
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "card",
              "card_id": "QE-EX-TRUST"
            },
            "condition_id": "S1"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The studio and supplier can assess relevant conduct for a named cooperative business commitment."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-EX-TRUST",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "condition_id": "D-AUTH"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The coordinator may review the arrangement using the stipulated approved channel without sharing confidential customer details."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-EX-TRUST",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "condition_id": "D-OPTION"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "A limited pilot and declining the engagement can both be compared against the two parties' stated constraints."
        }
      ],
      "objective_assessments": [
        {
          "objective_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-EX-TRUST",
            "role_id": "D1",
            "field": "objective"
          },
          "state": "not_satisfied",
          "basis": "The proposed loyalty-only objective abandons the required due-diligence constraint, even though relevant information is available."
        }
      ],
      "activation_assessments": [
        {
          "trigger_ref": {
            "role_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-EX-TRUST",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "trigger_index": 0
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The parties are proposing a new cooperative business arrangement."
        }
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "Stipulated fictional case, not an observation about the supplied authors or companies.",
        "The result checks declared prerequisites only; it does not establish evidence quality, completed steps, an outcome or authorization."
      ]
    },
    {
      "application_id": "APP-CUSTOMER-UNKNOWN",
      "title": "Customer: unknown",
      "kind": "hypothetical",
      "fixture_version": "qe-card-pilot-0.1.0",
      "entry_role_ref": {
        "kind": "role",
        "card_id": "QE-CUSTOMER-VALUE",
        "role_id": "D1"
      },
      "context_summary": "Baseline scenario: A fictional supplier compares its current package-preparation service with a revised checklist for small sellers. The customer task is sending an intact, correctly labeled parcel. Staff can observe task completion and rework, and assess cost, capacity and the required seal check.\nVariant override: Feasibility of a way to examine the customer-task result is still unresolved. Missing observations remain labeled unknown rather than treated as verified.\nAll other baseline stipulations remain unchanged.",
      "condition_assessments": [
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "card",
              "card_id": "QE-CUSTOMER-VALUE"
            },
            "condition_id": "S1"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "Small sellers and the intact, correctly labeled parcel task are identified for this service choice."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-CUSTOMER-VALUE",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "condition_id": "D-INPUT"
          },
          "state": "unknown",
          "basis": "The options can be named, but a feasible way to assess parcel-task results is not yet established."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-CUSTOMER-VALUE",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "condition_id": "D-AUTH"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The service owner has stipulated authority and can review the seal requirement, capacity, costs and service obligations."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-CUSTOMER-VALUE",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "condition_id": "D-EXCLUDE"
          },
          "state": "not_satisfied",
          "basis": "Neither comparison option ignores the required seal check, and absent observations will not be recorded as verified."
        }
      ],
      "objective_assessments": [
        {
          "objective_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-CUSTOMER-VALUE",
            "role_id": "D1",
            "field": "objective"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The customers and supplier seek useful parcel preparation within the stated staffing, cost and authority limits. Both options retain safety and service obligations. Parcel integrity and labeling, not sales volume, satisfaction or price alone, determine the task result."
        }
      ],
      "activation_assessments": [
        {
          "trigger_ref": {
            "role_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-CUSTOMER-VALUE",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "trigger_index": 0
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The proposed checklist could materially change how the specified parcel task is completed."
        }
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "Stipulated fictional case, not an observation about the supplied authors or companies.",
        "The result checks declared prerequisites only; it does not establish evidence quality, completed steps, an outcome or authorization."
      ]
    },
    {
      "application_id": "APP-CUSTOMER-OUTSIDE",
      "title": "Customer: outside",
      "kind": "hypothetical",
      "fixture_version": "qe-card-pilot-0.1.0",
      "entry_role_ref": {
        "kind": "role",
        "card_id": "QE-CUSTOMER-VALUE",
        "role_id": "D1"
      },
      "context_summary": "Baseline scenario: A fictional supplier compares its current package-preparation service with a revised checklist for small sellers. The customer task is sending an intact, correctly labeled parcel. Staff can observe task completion and rework, and assess cost, capacity and the required seal check.\nVariant override: The proposed comparison now requires waiving the mandatory seal check. That conflicts with the stated objective as well as activating the exclusion; the owner remains capable of assessing the constraint.\nAll other baseline stipulations remain unchanged.",
      "condition_assessments": [
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "card",
              "card_id": "QE-CUSTOMER-VALUE"
            },
            "condition_id": "S1"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "Small sellers and the intact, correctly labeled parcel task are identified for this service choice."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-CUSTOMER-VALUE",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "condition_id": "D-INPUT"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The status quo and checklist alternative are feasible; direct inspection of task completion and rework is available."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-CUSTOMER-VALUE",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "condition_id": "D-AUTH"
          },
          "state": "not_satisfied",
          "basis": "The owner can review the requirement but has no authority to waive this mandatory seal safeguard for the proposed comparison."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-CUSTOMER-VALUE",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "condition_id": "D-EXCLUDE"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The comparison depends on ignoring the mandatory seal safeguard."
        }
      ],
      "objective_assessments": [
        {
          "objective_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-CUSTOMER-VALUE",
            "role_id": "D1",
            "field": "objective"
          },
          "state": "not_satisfied",
          "basis": "The proposed choice violates the objective's safety and service-obligation constraints; price or speed cannot waive the seal requirement."
        }
      ],
      "activation_assessments": [
        {
          "trigger_ref": {
            "role_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-CUSTOMER-VALUE",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "trigger_index": 0
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The proposed checklist could materially change how the specified parcel task is completed."
        }
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "Stipulated fictional case, not an observation about the supplied authors or companies.",
        "The result checks declared prerequisites only; it does not establish evidence quality, completed steps, an outcome or authorization."
      ]
    },
    {
      "application_id": "APP-FOLLOW-UNKNOWN",
      "title": "Follow: unknown",
      "kind": "hypothetical",
      "fixture_version": "qe-card-pilot-0.1.0",
      "entry_role_ref": {
        "kind": "role",
        "card_id": "QE-FOLLOW-THROUGH",
        "role_id": "D1"
      },
      "context_summary": "Baseline scenario: A fictional analyst has acknowledged a draft-delivery commitment with an agreed completion test and timing. A delay is possible. The affected colleague can be contacted through the approved tracker, and a responsible manager can receive an escalation. No revision has yet been accepted.\nVariant override: The colleague's tracker access is uncertain and no authorized escalation contact has been confirmed. There is still an acknowledged threatened obligation.\nAll other baseline stipulations remain unchanged.",
      "condition_assessments": [
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "card",
              "card_id": "QE-FOLLOW-THROUGH"
            },
            "condition_id": "S1"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The analyst acknowledged the draft, the completion test and timing; the responsible and affected people are named."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-FOLLOW-THROUGH",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "condition_id": "D-CONTACT"
          },
          "state": "unknown",
          "basis": "A legitimate channel to the affected party or responsible authority has not been confirmed."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-FOLLOW-THROUGH",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "condition_id": "D-EXCLUDE"
          },
          "state": "not_satisfied",
          "basis": "Reviewing, delivering or seeking revision of this draft does not require an unsafe or prohibited act."
        }
      ],
      "objective_assessments": [
        {
          "objective_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-FOLLOW-THROUGH",
            "role_id": "D1",
            "field": "objective"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The analyst and relying colleague choose to avoid abandoned obligations by keeping remaining work actively tracked, including after an accepted revision, until verified completion or a legitimate release. They respect conflicting duties and safety, never treat a proposal or silence as acceptance, and use agreed timing rather than an invented universal deadline."
        }
      ],
      "activation_assessments": [
        {
          "trigger_ref": {
            "role_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-FOLLOW-THROUGH",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "trigger_index": 0
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The acknowledged draft delivery is threatened by a possible delay."
        }
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "Stipulated fictional case, not an observation about the supplied authors or companies.",
        "The result checks declared prerequisites only; it does not establish evidence quality, completed steps, an outcome or authorization."
      ]
    },
    {
      "application_id": "APP-FOLLOW-OUTSIDE",
      "title": "Follow: outside",
      "kind": "hypothetical",
      "fixture_version": "qe-card-pilot-0.1.0",
      "entry_role_ref": {
        "kind": "role",
        "card_id": "QE-FOLLOW-THROUGH",
        "role_id": "D1"
      },
      "context_summary": "Baseline scenario: A fictional analyst has acknowledged a draft-delivery commitment with an agreed completion test and timing. A delay is possible. The affected colleague can be contacted through the approved tracker, and a responsible manager can receive an escalation. No revision has yet been accepted.\nVariant override: The draft is no longer threatened and is not due for action. Its acknowledged terms and legitimate contact channel remain valid.\nAll other baseline stipulations remain unchanged.",
      "condition_assessments": [
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "card",
              "card_id": "QE-FOLLOW-THROUGH"
            },
            "condition_id": "S1"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The analyst acknowledged the draft, the completion test and timing; the responsible and affected people are named."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-FOLLOW-THROUGH",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "condition_id": "D-CONTACT"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The approved tracker reaches the colleague and provides a legitimate escalation route to the responsible manager."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-FOLLOW-THROUGH",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "condition_id": "D-EXCLUDE"
          },
          "state": "not_satisfied",
          "basis": "Reviewing, delivering or seeking revision of this draft does not require an unsafe or prohibited act."
        }
      ],
      "objective_assessments": [
        {
          "objective_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-FOLLOW-THROUGH",
            "role_id": "D1",
            "field": "objective"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The analyst and relying colleague choose to avoid abandoned obligations by keeping remaining work actively tracked, including after an accepted revision, until verified completion or a legitimate release. They respect conflicting duties and safety, never treat a proposal or silence as acceptance, and use agreed timing rather than an invented universal deadline."
        }
      ],
      "activation_assessments": [
        {
          "trigger_ref": {
            "role_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-FOLLOW-THROUGH",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "trigger_index": 0
          },
          "state": "not_satisfied",
          "basis": "No current due action or threatened completion activates this particular procedure."
        }
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "Stipulated fictional case, not an observation about the supplied authors or companies.",
        "The result checks declared prerequisites only; it does not establish evidence quality, completed steps, an outcome or authorization."
      ]
    },
    {
      "application_id": "APP-RECOGNITION-UNKNOWN",
      "title": "Recognition: unknown",
      "kind": "hypothetical",
      "fixture_version": "qe-card-pilot-0.1.0",
      "entry_role_ref": {
        "kind": "role",
        "card_id": "QE-RECOGNITION-DESIGN",
        "role_id": "D1"
      },
      "context_summary": "Baseline scenario: In a fictional team, two peers confirm a contributor's work on an internal guide. The recipient has indicated a preference for private acknowledgment through a permitted channel. The manager may send a specific thank-you within a small agreed resource budget. Owed pay and necessary feedback are handled separately.\nVariant override: Attribution of the guide contribution is disputed and has not been resolved. Recipient preferences and the permitted acknowledgment channel remain known.\nAll other baseline stipulations remain unchanged.",
      "condition_assessments": [
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "card",
              "card_id": "QE-RECOGNITION-DESIGN"
            },
            "condition_id": "S1"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The internal guide contribution, recipient and organizational acknowledgment context are identified."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-RECOGNITION-DESIGN",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "condition_id": "D-BASIS"
          },
          "state": "unknown",
          "basis": "Conflicting attribution reports leave a credible contribution basis unresolved."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-RECOGNITION-DESIGN",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "condition_id": "D-AUTH"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The manager has authority and resources for private acknowledgment and can respect privacy, pay and award obligations."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-RECOGNITION-DESIGN",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "condition_id": "D-EXCLUDE"
          },
          "state": "not_satisfied",
          "basis": "The private message discloses no protected material, is not intended to humiliate, and replaces neither pay nor required correction."
        }
      ],
      "objective_assessments": [
        {
          "objective_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-RECOGNITION-DESIGN",
            "role_id": "D1",
            "field": "objective"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The contributor and team seek credible acknowledgment with fair treatment of comparable work, proportionate cost and privacy. The private format fits the recorded preference, and praise is not substituted for compensation or feedback."
        }
      ],
      "activation_assessments": [
        {
          "trigger_ref": {
            "role_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-RECOGNITION-DESIGN",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "trigger_index": 0
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "Completion of the guide creates an occasion to acknowledge the identified organizational contribution."
        }
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "Stipulated fictional case, not an observation about the supplied authors or companies.",
        "The result checks declared prerequisites only; it does not establish evidence quality, completed steps, an outcome or authorization."
      ]
    },
    {
      "application_id": "APP-RECOGNITION-OUTSIDE",
      "title": "Recognition: outside",
      "kind": "hypothetical",
      "fixture_version": "qe-card-pilot-0.1.0",
      "entry_role_ref": {
        "kind": "role",
        "card_id": "QE-RECOGNITION-DESIGN",
        "role_id": "D1"
      },
      "context_summary": "Baseline scenario: In a fictional team, two peers confirm a contributor's work on an internal guide. The recipient has indicated a preference for private acknowledgment through a permitted channel. The manager may send a specific thank-you within a small agreed resource budget. Owed pay and necessary feedback are handled separately.\nVariant override: The proposed acknowledgment is changed to a public disclosure of protected project details contrary to the recipient's private preference. Both the exclusion and the objective review therefore change.\nAll other baseline stipulations remain unchanged.",
      "condition_assessments": [
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "card",
              "card_id": "QE-RECOGNITION-DESIGN"
            },
            "condition_id": "S1"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The internal guide contribution, recipient and organizational acknowledgment context are identified."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-RECOGNITION-DESIGN",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "condition_id": "D-BASIS"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The peer records support attribution, and the recipient's preference was obtained through a permitted channel."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-RECOGNITION-DESIGN",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "condition_id": "D-AUTH"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The manager has authority and resources for private acknowledgment and can respect privacy, pay and award obligations."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-RECOGNITION-DESIGN",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "condition_id": "D-EXCLUDE"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The proposed public recognition would disclose protected project information."
        }
      ],
      "objective_assessments": [
        {
          "objective_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-RECOGNITION-DESIGN",
            "role_id": "D1",
            "field": "objective"
          },
          "state": "not_satisfied",
          "basis": "The proposed public format violates privacy and the recorded preference, notwithstanding available authority for a different private format."
        }
      ],
      "activation_assessments": [
        {
          "trigger_ref": {
            "role_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-RECOGNITION-DESIGN",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "trigger_index": 0
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "Completion of the guide creates an occasion to acknowledge the identified organizational contribution."
        }
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "Stipulated fictional case, not an observation about the supplied authors or companies.",
        "The result checks declared prerequisites only; it does not establish evidence quality, completed steps, an outcome or authorization."
      ]
    },
    {
      "application_id": "APP-REWARDS-UNKNOWN",
      "title": "Rewards: unknown",
      "kind": "hypothetical",
      "fixture_version": "qe-card-pilot-0.1.0",
      "entry_role_ref": {
        "kind": "role",
        "card_id": "QE-EX-INCENTIVES",
        "role_id": "D1"
      },
      "context_summary": "Baseline scenario: A fictional support team is reviewing recognition for resolved requests. The manager can change the consequential reward rule, observe work, distinguish eligibility from the intended helpful contribution, and sample resolution quality beyond the closed-ticket count.\nVariant override: Only the rewarded closed-ticket count is currently available; a feasible check on actual resolution and shortcuts has not been established.\nAll other baseline stipulations remain unchanged.",
      "condition_assessments": [
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "card",
              "card_id": "QE-EX-INCENTIVES"
            },
            "condition_id": "S1"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The manager can change consequential rewards and observe the team's relevant behavior."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-EX-INCENTIVES",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "condition_id": "D-RULE"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The intended contribution is useful resolution; the proposed reward and closed-request eligibility rule are documented separately."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-EX-INCENTIVES",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "condition_id": "D-REVIEW"
          },
          "state": "unknown",
          "basis": "The manager has review authority, but checking useful outcomes beyond the rewarded count remains unresolved."
        }
      ],
      "objective_assessments": [
        {
          "objective_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-EX-INCENTIVES",
            "role_id": "D1",
            "field": "objective"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The team and organization seek useful resolution without shortcuts. The comparison considers fair access to eligible work and a review sample whose burden is proportionate to the stipulated resources."
        }
      ],
      "activation_assessments": [
        {
          "trigger_ref": {
            "role_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-EX-INCENTIVES",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "trigger_index": 0
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "A consequential reward rule is currently being reviewed."
        }
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "Stipulated fictional case, not an observation about the supplied authors or companies.",
        "The result checks declared prerequisites only; it does not establish evidence quality, completed steps, an outcome or authorization."
      ]
    },
    {
      "application_id": "APP-REWARDS-OUTSIDE",
      "title": "Rewards: outside",
      "kind": "hypothetical",
      "fixture_version": "qe-card-pilot-0.1.0",
      "entry_role_ref": {
        "kind": "role",
        "card_id": "QE-EX-INCENTIVES",
        "role_id": "D1"
      },
      "context_summary": "Baseline scenario: A fictional support team is reviewing recognition for resolved requests. The manager can change the consequential reward rule, observe work, distinguish eligibility from the intended helpful contribution, and sample resolution quality beyond the closed-ticket count.\nVariant override: The proposed goal now rewards favored participants regardless of contribution and imposes disproportionate review burden. The rule remains describable and reviewable.\nAll other baseline stipulations remain unchanged.",
      "condition_assessments": [
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "card",
              "card_id": "QE-EX-INCENTIVES"
            },
            "condition_id": "S1"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The manager can change consequential rewards and observe the team's relevant behavior."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-EX-INCENTIVES",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "condition_id": "D-RULE"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The intended contribution is useful resolution; the proposed reward and closed-request eligibility rule are documented separately."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-EX-INCENTIVES",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "condition_id": "D-REVIEW"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The manager is authorized to review the rule and can sample actual resolution quality, neglected work and shortcuts beyond the count."
        }
      ],
      "objective_assessments": [
        {
          "objective_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-EX-INCENTIVES",
            "role_id": "D1",
            "field": "objective"
          },
          "state": "not_satisfied",
          "basis": "The proposed objective violates fair treatment and proportional review cost rather than encouraging useful contribution without harmful shortcuts."
        }
      ],
      "activation_assessments": [
        {
          "trigger_ref": {
            "role_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-EX-INCENTIVES",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "trigger_index": 0
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "A consequential reward rule is currently being reviewed."
        }
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "Stipulated fictional case, not an observation about the supplied authors or companies.",
        "The result checks declared prerequisites only; it does not establish evidence quality, completed steps, an outcome or authorization."
      ]
    },
    {
      "application_id": "APP-SECOND-UNKNOWN",
      "title": "Second: unknown",
      "kind": "hypothetical",
      "fixture_version": "qe-card-pilot-0.1.0",
      "entry_role_ref": {
        "kind": "role",
        "card_id": "QE-EX-SECOND",
        "role_id": "D1"
      },
      "context_summary": "Baseline scenario: A fictional service team must compare its current retry setting with a reduced setting. Either can affect downstream load and request completion. An initial effect hypothesis and rival consequence are available, and a thirty-minute decision budget is agreed.\nVariant override: The team has not assessed whether its candidate action and initial hypotheses are sufficiently specified for E1. The options and decision deadline remain stated.\nAll other baseline stipulations remain unchanged.",
      "condition_assessments": [
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "card",
              "card_id": "QE-EX-SECOND"
            },
            "condition_id": "S1"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "Retry behavior can change downstream load and completion outcomes through dependencies and responses."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-EX-SECOND",
              "role_id": "E1"
            },
            "condition_id": "E-INPUT"
          },
          "state": "unknown",
          "basis": "E1's initial action/hypothesis input is unassessed, although the decision budget is known."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-EX-SECOND",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "condition_id": "D-OPTIONS"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The status quo and reduced setting are feasible, affected parties' objective is stated, and the decision has a thirty-minute deadline."
        }
      ],
      "objective_assessments": [
        {
          "objective_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE-EX-SECOND",
            "role_id": "D1",
            "field": "objective"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The team and affected service users seek acceptable immediate completion and downstream load. Comparison stays within the agreed deadline and does not automatically favor the longest horizon over immediate consequences."
        }
      ],
      "activation_assessments": [
        {
          "trigger_ref": {
            "role_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE-EX-SECOND",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "trigger_index": 0
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The retry choice is a pending consequential decision with material dependencies."
        }
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "Stipulated fictional case, not an observation about the supplied authors or companies.",
        "The result checks declared prerequisites only; it does not establish evidence quality, completed steps, an outcome or authorization."
      ]
    },
    {
      "application_id": "APP-SECOND-OUTSIDE",
      "title": "Second: outside",
      "kind": "hypothetical",
      "fixture_version": "qe-card-pilot-0.1.0",
      "entry_role_ref": {
        "kind": "role",
        "card_id": "QE-EX-SECOND",
        "role_id": "D1"
      },
      "context_summary": "Baseline scenario: A fictional service team must compare its current retry setting with a reduced setting. Either can affect downstream load and request completion. An initial effect hypothesis and rival consequence are available, and a thirty-minute decision budget is agreed.\nVariant override: The proposed selection objective now ranks the longest horizon above every immediate consequence regardless of the stated deadline. The options and causal inputs remain available.\nAll other baseline stipulations remain unchanged.",
      "condition_assessments": [
        {
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        "Stipulated fictional case, not an observation about the supplied authors or companies.",
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        {
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        "QE-authored hypothetical case, not observed behavior or empirical support.",
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      "application_id": "APP-PILOT-QE48-C01-D1-UNKNOWN",
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        "QE-authored hypothetical case, not observed behavior or empirical support.",
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    {
      "application_id": "APP-PILOT-QE48-C01-D1-OUTSIDE",
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        "QE-authored hypothetical case, not observed behavior or empirical support.",
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    },
    {
      "application_id": "APP-PILOT-QE48-C01-D2-READY",
      "title": "Opportunity Cost: D2 bounded example: ready",
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        "kind": "role",
        "card_id": "QE48-C01",
        "role_id": "D2"
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      "context_summary": "A fictional team allocates two hours among independent divisible activities. Next-hour benefits are A: 6 then 2, B: 5 then 1 under one agreed service objective. A then B yields 11; all obligations and authority are stipulated.",
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        {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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    {
      "application_id": "APP-PILOT-QE48-C01-D2-UNKNOWN",
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        "card_id": "QE48-C01",
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      "context_summary": "Baseline scenario: A fictional team allocates two hours among independent divisible activities. Next-hour benefits are A: 6 then 2, B: 5 then 1 under one agreed service objective. A then B yields 11; all obligations and authority are stipulated. Variant override: The next-increment value of B is unknown. Other stipulations are unchanged.",
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        {
          "condition_ref": {
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        {
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        {
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        {
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      "context_summary": "Baseline scenario: A fictional team allocates two hours among independent divisible activities. Next-hour benefits are A: 6 then 2, B: 5 then 1 under one agreed service objective. A then B yields 11; all obligations and authority are stipulated. Variant override: Project A requires an indivisible two-hour block before any benefit appears. Other stipulations are unchanged.",
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        {
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    {
      "application_id": "APP-PILOT-QE48-C03-E1-READY",
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        "kind": "role",
        "card_id": "QE48-C03",
        "role_id": "E1"
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      "context_summary": "A fictional serial line has effective stage capacities of 12, 8 and 10 units per hour, demand of 11, and observed sustained output of 8. Comparable flow records show work waiting before stage B without material starvation or blocking; the model is supplied for evaluation.",
      "condition_assessments": [
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        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE48-C03",
              "role_id": "E1"
            },
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          },
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          "basis": "Stipulated for this fictional case: Relevant flow, demand, capacity and queue or idle-time observations are available with stated uncertainty to compare competing explanations."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE48-C03",
              "role_id": "E1"
            },
            "condition_id": "E-ACCOUNTING"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The fictional case stipulates no material net inventory drawdown; capacity and output units account for yield losses and rework over the same horizon."
        }
      ],
      "objective_assessments": [],
      "activation_assessments": [],
      "limitations": [
        "QE-authored hypothetical case, not observed behavior or empirical support.",
        "Assessment checks declared conditions only; it does not prove procedure execution, truth or permission."
      ]
    },
    {
      "application_id": "APP-PILOT-QE48-C03-E1-UNKNOWN",
      "title": "Bottleneck Throughput: E1 bounded example: unknown",
      "kind": "hypothetical",
      "fixture_version": "qe-card-pilot-0.1.0",
      "entry_role_ref": {
        "kind": "role",
        "card_id": "QE48-C03",
        "role_id": "E1"
      },
      "context_summary": "Baseline scenario: A fictional serial line has effective stage capacities of 12, 8 and 10 units per hour, demand of 11, and observed sustained output of 8. Comparable flow records show work waiting before stage B without material starvation or blocking; the model is supplied for evaluation. Variant override: Demand and blocked-time observations are missing, so a queue alone cannot identify the limiting stage. Other stipulations are unchanged.",
      "condition_assessments": [
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "card",
              "card_id": "QE48-C03"
            },
            "condition_id": "S1"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The fictional case specifies: A process has a specified output measure and operating horizon for evaluating flow constraints."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
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              "card_id": "QE48-C03",
              "role_id": "E1"
            },
            "condition_id": "E-MODEL"
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          "basis": "Stipulated for this fictional case: A candidate flow model specifies routes, units, horizon, product mix and the proposed constraint."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
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              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE48-C03",
              "role_id": "E1"
            },
            "condition_id": "E-DATA"
          },
          "state": "unknown",
          "basis": "Demand and blocked-time observations are missing, so a queue alone cannot identify the limiting stage."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE48-C03",
              "role_id": "E1"
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            "condition_id": "E-ACCOUNTING"
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          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The fictional case stipulates no material net inventory drawdown; capacity and output units account for yield losses and rework over the same horizon."
        }
      ],
      "objective_assessments": [],
      "activation_assessments": [],
      "limitations": [
        "QE-authored hypothetical case, not observed behavior or empirical support.",
        "Assessment checks declared conditions only; it does not prove procedure execution, truth or permission."
      ]
    },
    {
      "application_id": "APP-PILOT-QE48-C03-E1-OUTSIDE",
      "title": "Bottleneck Throughput: E1 bounded example: outside",
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        "kind": "role",
        "card_id": "QE48-C03",
        "role_id": "E1"
      },
      "context_summary": "Baseline scenario: A fictional serial line has effective stage capacities of 12, 8 and 10 units per hour, demand of 11, and observed sustained output of 8. Comparable flow records show work waiting before stage B without material starvation or blocking; the model is supplied for evaluation. Variant override: Only an isolated utilization percentage is provided; no route or common horizon is specified. Other stipulations are unchanged.",
      "condition_assessments": [
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "card",
              "card_id": "QE48-C03"
            },
            "condition_id": "S1"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The fictional case specifies: A process has a specified output measure and operating horizon for evaluating flow constraints."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE48-C03",
              "role_id": "E1"
            },
            "condition_id": "E-MODEL"
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          "basis": "Only an isolated utilization percentage is provided; no route or common horizon is specified."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE48-C03",
              "role_id": "E1"
            },
            "condition_id": "E-DATA"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "Stipulated for this fictional case: Relevant flow, demand, capacity and queue or idle-time observations are available with stated uncertainty to compare competing explanations."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE48-C03",
              "role_id": "E1"
            },
            "condition_id": "E-ACCOUNTING"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The fictional case stipulates no material net inventory drawdown; capacity and output units account for yield losses and rework over the same horizon."
        }
      ],
      "objective_assessments": [],
      "activation_assessments": [],
      "limitations": [
        "QE-authored hypothetical case, not observed behavior or empirical support.",
        "Assessment checks declared conditions only; it does not prove procedure execution, truth or permission."
      ]
    },
    {
      "application_id": "APP-PILOT-QE48-C30-E1-READY",
      "title": "Map Is Not the Territory: E1 bounded example: ready",
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      "entry_role_ref": {
        "kind": "role",
        "card_id": "QE48-C30",
        "role_id": "E1"
      },
      "context_summary": "A fictional transit diagram preserves station order and connections but not geographic distances. It answers transfer-order questions; those represented relations do not determine the shortest walking route.",
      "condition_assessments": [
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "card",
              "card_id": "QE48-C30"
            },
            "condition_id": "S1"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The fictional case specifies: An inference about a situation is being drawn from a representation of that situation."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE48-C30",
              "role_id": "E1"
            },
            "condition_id": "E-PURPOSE"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "Stipulated for this fictional case: The proposed inference, intended use and relevant represented or omitted aspects can be specified."
        }
      ],
      "objective_assessments": [],
      "activation_assessments": [],
      "limitations": [
        "QE-authored hypothetical case, not observed behavior or empirical support.",
        "Assessment checks declared conditions only; it does not prove procedure execution, truth or permission."
      ]
    },
    {
      "application_id": "APP-PILOT-QE48-C30-E1-UNKNOWN",
      "title": "Map Is Not the Territory: E1 bounded example: unknown",
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        "kind": "role",
        "card_id": "QE48-C30",
        "role_id": "E1"
      },
      "context_summary": "Baseline scenario: A fictional transit diagram preserves station order and connections but not geographic distances. It answers transfer-order questions; those represented relations do not determine the shortest walking route. Variant override: The intended inference is unspecified, so the relevant omissions cannot yet be assessed. Other stipulations are unchanged.",
      "condition_assessments": [
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "card",
              "card_id": "QE48-C30"
            },
            "condition_id": "S1"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The fictional case specifies: An inference about a situation is being drawn from a representation of that situation."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE48-C30",
              "role_id": "E1"
            },
            "condition_id": "E-PURPOSE"
          },
          "state": "unknown",
          "basis": "The intended inference is unspecified, so the relevant omissions cannot yet be assessed."
        }
      ],
      "objective_assessments": [],
      "activation_assessments": [],
      "limitations": [
        "QE-authored hypothetical case, not observed behavior or empirical support.",
        "Assessment checks declared conditions only; it does not prove procedure execution, truth or permission."
      ]
    },
    {
      "application_id": "APP-PILOT-QE48-C30-E1-OUTSIDE",
      "title": "Map Is Not the Territory: E1 bounded example: outside",
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        "kind": "role",
        "card_id": "QE48-C30",
        "role_id": "E1"
      },
      "context_summary": "Baseline scenario: A fictional transit diagram preserves station order and connections but not geographic distances. It answers transfer-order questions; those represented relations do not determine the shortest walking route. Variant override: No inference or intended use can be specified for the representation. Other stipulations are unchanged.",
      "condition_assessments": [
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "card",
              "card_id": "QE48-C30"
            },
            "condition_id": "S1"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The fictional case specifies: An inference about a situation is being drawn from a representation of that situation."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE48-C30",
              "role_id": "E1"
            },
            "condition_id": "E-PURPOSE"
          },
          "state": "not_satisfied",
          "basis": "No inference or intended use can be specified for the representation."
        }
      ],
      "objective_assessments": [],
      "activation_assessments": [],
      "limitations": [
        "QE-authored hypothetical case, not observed behavior or empirical support.",
        "Assessment checks declared conditions only; it does not prove procedure execution, truth or permission."
      ]
    },
    {
      "application_id": "APP-PILOT-QE48-C01-D1-FORCED-CHOICE",
      "title": "Forced Choice",
      "kind": "hypothetical",
      "fixture_version": "qe-card-pilot-0.1.0",
      "entry_role_ref": {
        "kind": "role",
        "card_id": "QE48-C01",
        "role_id": "D1"
      },
      "context_summary": "A fictional team must choose one of two permitted maintenance options by a deadline. Inaction is forbidden. Both feasible options have comparable resource use and values under the same objective and horizon; authority and obligations are assessed.",
      "condition_assessments": [
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "card",
              "card_id": "QE48-C01"
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            "condition_id": "S1"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The fictional case specifies: A choice commits a limited resource among competing feasible uses within a stated horizon."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE48-C01",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "condition_id": "D-OPTIONS"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "A fictional team must choose one of two permitted maintenance options by a deadline. Inaction is forbidden. Both feasible options have comparable resource use and values under the same objective and horizon; authority and obligations are assessed."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE48-C01",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "condition_id": "D-VALUES"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "Stipulated for this fictional case: Decision-relevant values or defensible ranges under the same objective and horizon are available for comparing alternatives."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE48-C01",
              "role_id": "D1"
            },
            "condition_id": "D-AUTH"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "Stipulated for this fictional case: The decision-maker can assess obligations and resource constraints and has authority for the contemplated allocation."
        }
      ],
      "objective_assessments": [
        {
          "objective_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE48-C01",
            "role_id": "D1",
            "field": "objective"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The resource owner seeks the recorded service outcome within the stated budget, authority and obligations; comparisons share an objective and horizon and do not double-count costs or infer global optimality."
        }
      ],
      "activation_assessments": [
        {
          "trigger_ref": {
            "role_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE48-C01",
              "role_id": "D1"
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            "trigger_index": 0
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The fictional allocation decision is currently being considered."
        }
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "QE-authored hypothetical case, not observed behavior or empirical support.",
        "Assessment checks declared conditions only; it does not prove procedure execution, truth or permission."
      ]
    },
    {
      "application_id": "APP-PILOT-QE48-C01-D2-KNOWN-THRESHOLD",
      "title": "Known Threshold",
      "kind": "hypothetical",
      "fixture_version": "qe-card-pilot-0.1.0",
      "entry_role_ref": {
        "kind": "role",
        "card_id": "QE48-C01",
        "role_id": "D2"
      },
      "context_summary": "Two hours are available. Option A yields zero during its first hour then 100 during its second; B yields one per hour. This known threshold makes local ranking choose B for a total of two instead of the feasible A bundle worth 100. All other baseline stipulations hold.",
      "condition_assessments": [
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "card",
              "card_id": "QE48-C01"
            },
            "condition_id": "S1"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The fictional case specifies: A choice commits a limited resource among competing feasible uses within a stated horizon."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE48-C01",
              "role_id": "D2"
            },
            "condition_id": "D2-INPUT"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "Stipulated for this fictional case: Feasible increments and their estimated incremental values and resource use are available under a common objective and horizon."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE48-C01",
              "role_id": "D2"
            },
            "condition_id": "D2-RESOURCE"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "Stipulated for this fictional case: One shared binding resource has a known remaining budget, and useful increments are divisible."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE48-C01",
              "role_id": "D2"
            },
            "condition_id": "D2-INTERACTION"
          },
          "state": "not_satisfied",
          "basis": "Two hours are available. Option A yields zero during its first hour then 100 during its second; B yields one per hour. This known threshold makes local ranking choose B for a total of two instead of the feasible A bundle worth 100. All other baseline stipulations hold."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE48-C01",
              "role_id": "D2"
            },
            "condition_id": "D2-AUTH"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "Stipulated for this fictional case: The resource owner can assess relevant obligations and has authority for the incremental allocation."
        }
      ],
      "objective_assessments": [
        {
          "objective_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE48-C01",
            "role_id": "D2",
            "field": "objective"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The resource owner seeks the recorded service outcome within the stated budget, authority and obligations; comparisons share an objective and horizon and do not double-count costs or infer global optimality."
        }
      ],
      "activation_assessments": [
        {
          "trigger_ref": {
            "role_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE48-C01",
              "role_id": "D2"
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            "trigger_index": 0
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The fictional allocation decision is currently being considered."
        }
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "QE-authored hypothetical case, not observed behavior or empirical support.",
        "Assessment checks declared conditions only; it does not prove procedure execution, truth or permission."
      ]
    },
    {
      "application_id": "APP-PILOT-QE48-C01-D2-KNOWN-COMPLEMENTARITY",
      "title": "Known Complementarity",
      "kind": "hypothetical",
      "fixture_version": "qe-card-pilot-0.1.0",
      "entry_role_ref": {
        "kind": "role",
        "card_id": "QE48-C01",
        "role_id": "D2"
      },
      "context_summary": "Two feasible work increments have value only when combined. Their complementarity is fully modeled, but ranking each next increment independently still misses the valuable bundle. All other baseline stipulations hold.",
      "condition_assessments": [
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "card",
              "card_id": "QE48-C01"
            },
            "condition_id": "S1"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The fictional case specifies: A choice commits a limited resource among competing feasible uses within a stated horizon."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE48-C01",
              "role_id": "D2"
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            "condition_id": "D2-INPUT"
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          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "Stipulated for this fictional case: Feasible increments and their estimated incremental values and resource use are available under a common objective and horizon."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE48-C01",
              "role_id": "D2"
            },
            "condition_id": "D2-RESOURCE"
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          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "Stipulated for this fictional case: One shared binding resource has a known remaining budget, and useful increments are divisible."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE48-C01",
              "role_id": "D2"
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            "condition_id": "D2-INTERACTION"
          },
          "state": "not_satisfied",
          "basis": "Two feasible work increments have value only when combined. Their complementarity is fully modeled, but ranking each next increment independently still misses the valuable bundle. All other baseline stipulations hold."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE48-C01",
              "role_id": "D2"
            },
            "condition_id": "D2-AUTH"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "Stipulated for this fictional case: The resource owner can assess relevant obligations and has authority for the incremental allocation."
        }
      ],
      "objective_assessments": [
        {
          "objective_ref": {
            "kind": "role",
            "card_id": "QE48-C01",
            "role_id": "D2",
            "field": "objective"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The resource owner seeks the recorded service outcome within the stated budget, authority and obligations; comparisons share an objective and horizon and do not double-count costs or infer global optimality."
        }
      ],
      "activation_assessments": [
        {
          "trigger_ref": {
            "role_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE48-C01",
              "role_id": "D2"
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          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The fictional allocation decision is currently being considered."
        }
      ],
      "limitations": [
        "QE-authored hypothetical case, not observed behavior or empirical support.",
        "Assessment checks declared conditions only; it does not prove procedure execution, truth or permission."
      ]
    },
    {
      "application_id": "APP-PILOT-QE48-C03-E1-INVENTORY-UNKNOWN",
      "title": "Inventory Unknown",
      "kind": "hypothetical",
      "fixture_version": "qe-card-pilot-0.1.0",
      "entry_role_ref": {
        "kind": "role",
        "card_id": "QE48-C03",
        "role_id": "E1"
      },
      "context_summary": "Opening and closing inventory records are missing; output could reflect inventory drawdown. All other baseline conditions are stipulated satisfied.",
      "condition_assessments": [
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "card",
              "card_id": "QE48-C03"
            },
            "condition_id": "S1"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The fictional case specifies: A process has a specified output measure and operating horizon for evaluating flow constraints."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE48-C03",
              "role_id": "E1"
            },
            "condition_id": "E-MODEL"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "Stipulated for this fictional case: A candidate flow model specifies routes, units, horizon, product mix and the proposed constraint."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE48-C03",
              "role_id": "E1"
            },
            "condition_id": "E-DATA"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "Stipulated for this fictional case: Relevant flow, demand, capacity and queue or idle-time observations are available with stated uncertainty to compare competing explanations."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE48-C03",
              "role_id": "E1"
            },
            "condition_id": "E-ACCOUNTING"
          },
          "state": "unknown",
          "basis": "Opening and closing inventory records are missing; output could reflect inventory drawdown. All other baseline conditions are stipulated satisfied."
        }
      ],
      "objective_assessments": [],
      "activation_assessments": [],
      "limitations": [
        "QE-authored hypothetical case, not observed behavior or empirical support.",
        "Assessment checks declared conditions only; it does not prove procedure execution, truth or permission."
      ]
    },
    {
      "application_id": "APP-PILOT-QE48-C03-E1-YIELD-OUTSIDE",
      "title": "Yield Outside",
      "kind": "hypothetical",
      "fixture_version": "qe-card-pilot-0.1.0",
      "entry_role_ref": {
        "kind": "role",
        "card_id": "QE48-C03",
        "role_id": "E1"
      },
      "context_summary": "Material yield losses and rework are known to be excluded from the capacity/output comparison, so the compared flow units are incompatible. All other baseline conditions are stipulated satisfied.",
      "condition_assessments": [
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "card",
              "card_id": "QE48-C03"
            },
            "condition_id": "S1"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "The fictional case specifies: A process has a specified output measure and operating horizon for evaluating flow constraints."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE48-C03",
              "role_id": "E1"
            },
            "condition_id": "E-MODEL"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "Stipulated for this fictional case: A candidate flow model specifies routes, units, horizon, product mix and the proposed constraint."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE48-C03",
              "role_id": "E1"
            },
            "condition_id": "E-DATA"
          },
          "state": "satisfied",
          "basis": "Stipulated for this fictional case: Relevant flow, demand, capacity and queue or idle-time observations are available with stated uncertainty to compare competing explanations."
        },
        {
          "condition_ref": {
            "owner_ref": {
              "kind": "role",
              "card_id": "QE48-C03",
              "role_id": "E1"
            },
            "condition_id": "E-ACCOUNTING"
          },
          "state": "not_satisfied",
          "basis": "Material yield losses and rework are known to be excluded from the capacity/output comparison, so the compared flow units are incompatible. All other baseline conditions are stipulated satisfied."
        }
      ],
      "objective_assessments": [],
      "activation_assessments": [],
      "limitations": [
        "QE-authored hypothetical case, not observed behavior or empirical support.",
        "Assessment checks declared conditions only; it does not prove procedure execution, truth or permission."
      ]
    }
  ]
}
