H008 — Procedural AST Recovery

Status Before Review

Ready for limited review.

Why This Hypothesis Is In Scope

AST presence was stable enough to justify limited review, but summary disagreement remains.

Evidence Available

• representation agreement
• AST presence

Supporting Observations

• AST presence appears stable

Challenging Observations

• canonical summary disagreement remains

Threats To Validity

• AST presence does not guarantee AST quality
• summary disagreement may reflect deeper structural divergence

Instrument Issues

• representation layer remains mixed rather than cleanly stable

Reviewer Assessment

Choose one:

• insufficient_evidence
• tentatively_supported
• tentatively_challenged
• mixed_evidence
• blocked_by_instrument_issue
• defer_until_next_ecr

Rationale

Next Evidence Needed

• manual comparison of AST quality, not just AST presence

Confidence Update Recommendation

Do not update confidence here.

Options:

• no_update
• prepare_increase_for_review_board
• prepare_decrease_for_review_board
• prepare_split_hypothesis
• prepare_suspend_hypothesis
• prepare_retire_hypothesis

Notes