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Stage 06E

Canonical DECODE stage

Establish Closure

How will the decision remain explainable?

Preserve reasoning, assumptions, boundaries, trade-offs, ownership, and revisit conditions before execution begins.

Belongs here
  • Decision rationale
  • Assumptions and trade-offs
  • Revisit triggers and review date
  • Ownership and handover
Does not belong here
  • Silent reinterpretation
  • Outcome-based rewriting of intent
  • Unowned or permanently open decisions

Visual logic

Preserve the reasoning before execution changes the story.

Input from stage 5EClosed decision

Common failure modes

Watch for these signals.

  1. 01

    Reasoning fades after action begins

  2. 02

    Scope drifts without reopening the decision

  3. 03

    Revisit conditions are missing

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