A06 — Verification and reassessment triggers

• Input [inference]: A provisional judgment together with its supporting evidence and any signal that the situation has changed.
• Operation [direct]: "Verify Before Closure" and "Add Reassessment Triggers In Dynamic Contexts" are stated as design heuristics: "Reasoning artifacts are more robust when they include some explicit verification move before final commitment" and "When the environment changes quickly, a framework should specify when prior judgments should be reopened" (emergent-design-laws-v0.1.md).
• Output [absent]: No output form is described in the permitted canonical set.
• Scope conditions [direct]: Dynamic contexts, per the "Add Reassessment Triggers" heuristic's own framing.
• Failure conditions [inference]: No verification before commitment, or no reopening mechanism in a dynamic context — inferred as the direct complements of the two heuristics rather than stated independently.
• Predicted effect [absent]: No directional measured effect is stated for this candidate in the permitted canonical set.
• Measurement [absent]: No metric is defined.
• Implementation test [absent]: No procedure is defined.
• Decision rights [inference]: The research constitution requires that "every hypothesis must have a kill condition" and that hypotheses be retired "that consistently fail" (Rules 2, 7), which implies some form of triggered reassessment applies to hypotheses generally, but no owner or trigger-definition authority is assigned specifically to this candidate.
• Uncertainty handling [direct]: "Do not protect the theory from evidence" (research-constitution.md, Rule 15); this directly supports reopening judgments rather than shielding them from disconfirming signals.
• Verification [direct]: Verification preceding closure is the mechanism itself, per the "Verify Before Closure" heuristic.
• Provenance [absent]: Not addressed.
• Implementation cost [absent]: Not addressed.
• Limitations [direct]: The emergent design laws are explicitly "provisional research synthesis" rather than "accepted engineering laws," with an Open Caution that they "may not be universal." No canonical record in the permitted set operationalizes what triggers a reassessment or who monitors for it.

Statement basis

• Direct: Both underlying heuristics, scope framing, uncertainty-handling rule, and verification requirement.
• Inference: Input framing, failure-condition complements, and the limited applicability of the generic kill-condition rule to decision rights.
• Proposal-only: The reassessment-trigger heuristic itself is labeled provisional synthesis.
• Absent: Output form, predicted effect, measurement, implementation test, provenance, implementation cost.