ExplanationFaithfulnessProfile - explanation classification over existing MVPK faces
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Type: Architectural (A) Status: Stable Normativity: Normative unless marked informative
One-line summary. ExplanationFaithfulnessProfile classifies explanation-facing renderings over already available claims, traces, and pins on existing MVPK faces. It helps reviewers distinguish source-pinned rendering, source-linked reconstruction, didactic retelling, and speculative retelling without creating a second face family or a second semantic rule track.
Governed object in plain terms. One explanation-facing rendering on an existing MVPK face; not the whole face family, not the whole source-bearing material set, and not a second semantic track.
Governing move in plain terms. Classify how that rendering relates to already available source-bearing material, what class it belongs to, and what stronger use still stays outside the profile.
Use this when. Use this profile when one note, memo, sheet, screen, table, or short section is trying to help a reader understand already available material on an existing face and you need to say what kind of explanation it is without turning that help into a second semantic rule track.
Start here when. Your first honest artefact is one explanation-facing rendering on an existing MVPK face, and the real question is whether it stays source-pinned, becomes bounded reconstruction, is openly didactic, or has already drifted into speculation or stronger downstream use.
What goes wrong if missed. Helpful explanation quietly turns into a second semantic rule track, hidden bridge-comparison load, or stronger downstream guidance because the rendering is read as if it were canonical content.
What this buys. One honest explanation class on an existing face with visible source anchors, admissible-use boundary, and explicit reroutes when the rendering has stopped being merely explanatory help.
Not this pattern when. Not this profile when the real job is same-entity rewrite (A.6.3.CR), representation change (A.6.3.RT), bounded comparative reading (E.17.ID.CR), changed object-of-talk (A.6.4), deliberately weakened rendering that now needs narrower use, forbidden stronger use, and stronger-source reopen (A.6.3.CSC), or downstream action, assurance, or gate-bearing content (A.15, A.20, A.21).
First output. One face-bound explanation rendering or compact review note with an explicit explanation class, visible source anchors, admissible face/surface, and any forbidden stronger use or addedLinkPolicy needed to keep the rendering reviewable.
Typical next governing patterns/sources. E.17.ID.CR when the case becomes bounded comparative reading; A.6.3.CR or A.6.3.RT when the real job is same-entity rewrite or representation change; A.6.3.CSC when the rendering stays honest only through narrower use, forbidden stronger use, and stronger-source reopen; A.6.4 or OntologicalReframing when the object of talk changes; and A.15, A.20, or A.21 when explanation starts carrying downstream action, assurance, or gate-bearing use.
Common wrong escalations / reroutes. Do not use this profile to hide new claims, bridge-comparison load, route-selection pressure, or gate-bearing guidance inside helpful prose. If the rendering is really a bounded comparison, reroute to E.17.ID.CR; if it is only same-entity rewriting or representation shift, reroute to A.6.3.*; if it is a deliberately weakened rendering whose narrower use, forbidden stronger use, and stronger-source reopen now govern the case, reroute to A.6.3.CSC; if it is already making stronger world, action, or gate-bearing claims, leave E.17.EFP for the more exact downstream pattern/source.
Generated-explanation repaired path. When a generated explanation is used to help reliance, this profile only classifies the explanation relation and source-finding posture. The explanation becomes usable for an operative claim only when A.10 maps that claim to the exact source passage, carrier, or governing source that supports it in the relying context; otherwise it remains reader help, not approval, authorization, evidence, assurance, gate passage, or work-occurrence support.
Placement. Profile governed by E.17.0 / E.17 review.
Builds on. E.17.0 U.MultiViewDescribing; E.17 MVPK; A.7; E.10.D2; A.6.B; F.9; F.18.
Coordinates with. ConservativeRetextualization; RepresentationTransduction; E.17.ID.CR ComparativeReading; A.6.4; A.15; A.20; A.21.
The same underlying claim set often needs explanation-facing renderings on more than one existing face:
- an engineer-manager-readable rendering of a technical claim set;
- a technical explanation that makes source linkage more visible than the original source prose;
- a didactic retelling for onboarding or review preparation;
- a clearly marked speculative retelling that helps discussion but does not pretend to be canonical content.
Keywords
- explanation
- rendering
- source-pinned
- source-linked reconstruction
- didactic retelling
- speculative retelling
- generated-explanation source finding
- evidence binding
- admissible faces
- allowed use
- stronger-source return.
Relations
Content
Problem frame
The same underlying claim set often needs explanation-facing renderings on more than one existing face:
- an engineer-manager-readable rendering of a technical claim set;
- a technical explanation that makes source linkage more visible than the original source prose;
- a didactic retelling for onboarding or review preparation;
- a clearly marked speculative retelling that helps discussion but does not pretend to be canonical content.
FPF already has E.17.0 for viewpoints, views, and correspondences, and E.17 for typed publication faces. A compact review profile is still needed to say what kind of explanation-facing rendering is being published, how strongly it stays tied to source material, and where it is admissible.
Problem
Without a dedicated profile:
- source-pinned rendering, reconstruction, didactic simplification, and speculation blur together;
- explanation prose starts behaving like a second semantic rule track;
- reviewers cannot tell which faces remain admissible for a given explanation class;
- pins, provenance, and evidence binding become optional rhetorical extras instead of explicit publication conditions;
- explanation work quietly drifts into new claims, hidden bridge work, or gate-facing misuse.
Forces
- Clarity vs semantic restraint. Explanation may help readers, but it must not mint new semantic commitments on publication faces.
- Face discipline vs reader fit. The same source may need different renderings, but all of them still live on existing MVPK faces.
- Traceability vs accessibility. Simpler renderings are useful only if readers can still recover how they relate to the source.
- Didactic usefulness vs policy misuse. A didactic or speculative retelling may help humans, but it must not masquerade as assurance or gate-bearing content.
- Explanation vs interpretation. Some moves still belong to explanation rendering; others should exit toward interpretation, retargeting, or world/gate governing sources.
Solution — review profile for explanation renderings on existing MVPK faces
Informal definition
ExplanationFaithfulnessProfileis a review profile governed byE.17.0 / E.17for explanation-facing renderings over already available claims, traces, and pins on existing MVPK faces.It does not create a new face family. It classifies how an explanation relates to its source material, what kind of augmentation is allowed, how strongly evidence remains bound, and on which existing faces the rendering may admissibly appear.
Profile, case, and published rendering distinction
ExplanationFaithfulnessProfile is an intensional review profile governed by E.17.0 / E.17. Concrete explanation-facing renderings are passive published renderings or reviewed cases classified under this profile; the profile itself does not act, decide, or publish.
This distinction matters because the profile governs how a rendering is classified and reviewed. It does not turn every explanatory paragraph into a giant standalone record, and it does not replace MVPK face governance with a second semantic track.
How to read this profile
This profile does not decide whether a claim is true. It says how an explanation rendering relates to already available claim-bearing material and where that rendering may admissibly appear.
- Class names are publication-behaviour labels, not merit labels.
- Faces stay governed by
E.17; the profile only constrains what sort of explanation is admissible on them. - If a rendering begins to add new semantic commitments, it has left this profile even if the prose still looks explanatory.
- It helps reviewers classify one published rendering relative to already pinned source material.
Local working vocabulary
This profile uses a small local vocabulary for review.
- Source material = already pinned claims, traces, notes, or other reviewable source-bearing material.
- Rendering = one published explanation-facing text on one existing face.
- Class assignment = the explanation-class assigned to that rendering on that face.
- Bundle-level difference = a case where two renderings in one bundle admissibly carry different explanation classes.
These are review aids, not new governance kinds. Faces remain governed by E.17; this profile only qualifies explanation behaviour on those faces.
Core profile fields
A rendering reviewed under this profile should make explicit at least:
landingForm = profile governed by E.17/E.17.0 review;governingSource = E.17 / E.17.0;sourceForm;targetForm;changeLocus;describedEntityPolicy = preservefor explanation renderings over the same underlying claim-bearing material;boundedContextPolicy;viewpointPolicy;referenceSchemePolicy;representationSchemePolicy;groundingPolicy;referencePlanePolicy;claimPolicy;claimScopePolicy;publicationScopePolicy;reliabilityTransportPolicy;pinningPolicy;provenancePolicy;lossProfile;claimContinuityClass;microtheoryContinuityClass;onticContinuityClass;bridgeRequirement;worldContactPolicy;evidencePolicy;gatePolicy;workCrossing;upstreamGoverningSource/downstreamGoverningSource;admissibleFaces;admissibleSurfaces;publicNamePolicy;sourceRelation;augmentationRelation;addedLinkPolicywhenSourceLinkedReconstructionadds bounded connective prose;targetUserModel?when reader-fit materially shapes the rendering;interactionMode?when the explanation is more than one static explanatory paragraph;contrastiveQuestion?when the rendering is answering a specific user-facing contrast or why-question;allowedUse?when downstream use must be bounded by reader role or task;misuseRisk?when over-reading pressure is part of the review load;evidenceRelation;noNewBoundaryClaims = trueon explanation faces;compositionRule;reopenCondition.
Where explanation crosses from source rendering into new claim production, hidden bridge work, gate-bearing semantics, or world-facing intervention claims, the profile no longer suffices and the case must leave this profile.
Working-model first
Ordinary reviewed renderings do not need to restate every field from scratch. When the governing MVPK face, pinned source material, and already published provenance anchors already fix a field honestly, the rendering may inherit that condition by explicit reference.
A fuller review record becomes necessary when:
- explanation class differs across faces in the same publication bundle;
- the rendering relies on bounded connective prose that is not obvious from the source wording alone;
- didactic or speculative wording creates a real risk of policy, assurance, or gate misuse;
- source linkage, provenance, or reliability transport would otherwise become unclear.
When one rendering needs its own narrower-use line, forbidden-stronger-use line, or stronger-source reopen rule because distinctions were deliberately weakened for reader fit, the issue is no longer only explanation class. Do not keep that case here as if it were merely one more helpful rendering style; route it to A.6.3.CSC Controlled Semantic Coarsening.
What a reviewer checks first
A reviewer usually starts with four questions:
- What exactly is the source-bearing material for this rendering?
- Which explanation class is being claimed for this rendering on this face?
- Are the pins, provenance anchors, and evidence relation visible enough for that class?
- Has the rendering quietly begun to add new semantic commitments, new face-like behaviour, or a deliberately weakened source rendering that needs
A.6.3.CSC?
If these questions are answered clearly, the rendering often remains lightweight. If they are not, a fuller face-by-face review record is usually warranted.
Interpretant-side block
This profile still governs explanation renderings on existing faces, not full interactive explanation systems.
However, when reader-help, onboarding, or contrastive explanation is doing real work, the rendering should also make visible:
- who the rendering is fit for (
targetUserModel); - whether the interaction is static, guided, contrastive, or another bounded mode (
interactionMode); - what question the rendering is helping answer (
contrastiveQuestion); - what interpretation or use remains admissible (
allowedUse); - and what stronger use would be wrongful (
misuseRisk).
These fields do not create a new governance source. Their current role is narrower: stop explanation prose from pretending that every rendering is audience-neutral, and make misuse boundaries explicit when reader-fit is part of the explanation case.
Explanation class set
The explanation-class set used in this profile is:
SourcePinnedRenderingSourceLinkedReconstructionDidacticRetellingSpeculativeRetelling
In field form, the local assignment is explanationClass = SourcePinnedRendering | SourceLinkedReconstruction | DidacticRetelling | SpeculativeRetelling.
These classes are publication-behaviour labels for one rendering on one existing face. They are not U.Kind values, not MVPK faces, and not semantic merit grades. They state how the explanation relates to the source, how much augmentation is tolerated, what reliability transport is still honest, and which faces remain admissible.
Class assignment is per published rendering on a face, not one blanket label for a whole multi-face bundle. If a Plain rendering stays source-pinned while a Tech rendering adds bounded connective prose, the bundle must state that class difference explicitly.
Ordinary class-selection guidance
A practical reading order is:
- start with
SourcePinnedRenderingif the rendering stays close to the source wording and keeps direct pins visible; - move to
SourceLinkedReconstructionwhen bounded connective prose is added but source linkage remains explicit; - move to
DidacticRetellingwhen reader-help dominates and some phrasing is intentionally more pedagogical than canonical; - move to
SpeculativeRetellingonly when the rendering openly goes beyond source-backed explanation and remains confined to exploratory or didactic use.
The profile should not be used to make a rendering sound more respectable than its actual source relation warrants.
It should also not be used to keep one deliberately weaker, narrower-use rendering inside explanation just because the prose is reader-friendly. If the rendering needs its own forbidden-use line and reopen rule to stay honest, explanation is no longer the primary question; route to A.6.3.CSC Controlled Semantic Coarsening.
SourceLinkedReconstruction added-link policy
When a rendering claims SourceLinkedReconstruction, it should publish a compact addedLinkPolicy whenever the connective move is not already explicit in the source wording.
Minimum reading load:
addedLinkKind— what bounded connective move is being added;sourceAnchorSet— which pinned claims, traces, or notes support that move;boundednessReason— why the added link does not become a stronger theory, modality lift, causal claim, bridge-comparison load, or policy-bearing reading;forbiddenLinkClass— which stronger connective move is explicitly excluded;reopenTrigger— what would force downgrade, reroute, or fuller review.
Working rule:
- if
addedLinkPolicycannot be stated plainly, the rendering should drop to a weaker class, move to a more restricted face/surface, or leaveE.17.EFP; SourceLinkedReconstructionmay not hide new relation theory, bridge equivalence, design-level generalization, or policy-bearing guidance inside "bounded" connective prose.
Working admissibility matrix
ExplanationFaithfulnessProfile ordinarily stays on PublicationSurface. Any appearance on InteropSurface must remain source-pinned and structure-preserving, and must never smuggle explanation-specific semantics into interop publication. Didactic or speculative restrictions are use-profile restrictions over existing faces, not new face kinds.
Source-pinned explanation on Assurance-facing publication is exceptional rather than ordinary. Unless the governing face source explicitly permits that use with visible evidence carriers, source pins, and no added semantics, reviewers should treat Assurance-facing explanation rendering as non-admissible.
DidacticRetelling and trace-free reader help are illustrative or analogical scaffolding only. They may not carry domain facts, causal claims, policy claims, reliability claims, or canonical Tech-face semantics. If didactic material appears near technical content, mark it as a boxed or otherwise clearly separated non-canonical reader aid rather than letting it merge into the technical source.
Every concrete explanation rendering must also publish the source claim IDs, pins, trace refs, or equivalent provenance anchors that justify its class on that face. If those anchors cannot be made visible on the chosen face or surface, the rendering must drop to a weaker class, move to a more restricted use profile, or leave the face.
When reader-help, onboarding, or contrastive explanation is part of the case, the rendering should also publish or inherit its targetUserModel, interactionMode, contrastiveQuestion, allowedUse, and misuseRisk so that user-fit does not quietly become stronger policy guidance.
Shared explanation rule packet
E.17.EFP:4.5.a. Preservation rule
Explanation-facing renderings under this profile preserve the same underlying described-entity line, bounded context, and source-pinned claim-bearing material. Viewpoint, reference scheme, representation scheme, grounding, and reference-plane handling must stay explicit rather than being left to prose. SourcePinnedRendering and SourceLinkedReconstruction are expected to remain claim-conservative; DidacticRetelling may be claim-attenuating but must stay source-linked; SpeculativeRetelling may widen explanatory language only when kept clearly off canonical faces and off gate-bearing use.
E.17.EFP:4.5.b. Loss and reliability rule
A rendering assigned to one of these explanation classes declares what is omitted, reordered, simplified, or newly connected. Reliability transport may stay source-bounded or be explicitly downgraded, but it must never be silently strengthened by more persuasive prose. Didactic and speculative renderings also state forbidden downstream uses whenever omissions, weakening, or trace-free additions occur.
When reader-fit is part of the explanation case, allowedUse and misuseRisk should be explicit enough that a didactic or contrastive rendering cannot be mistaken for stronger assurance, policy, or gate-bearing guidance.
E.17.EFP:4.5.c. Downstream-use and handoff rule
This profile stays explanation-facing and episteme-level. It does not govern bridge stance, retargeting, route selection, executable docking, gate-bearing use, or work enactment. If a case starts carrying one bounded comparative review case, rival interpretations, bridge-mediated comparison load, or world/gate consequences, it must hand off to the appropriate downstream governing source (E.17.ID.CR, F.9.1, B.5.2, A.6.4, A.15, A.20, A.21).
Interpretant-side fields do not weaken that handoff rule. They only bound reader use; they do not authorize stronger downstream guidance.
If a weakened explanation-like rendering needs narrower use, forbidden stronger use, and stronger-source reopen to remain honest, the case hands off to A.6.3.CSC Controlled Semantic Coarsening rather than staying in ordinary explanation classification.
E.17.EFP:4.5.d. Composition and reopen rule
Repeated SourcePinnedRendering over the same pinned source may be idempotent. SourceLinkedReconstruction and DidacticRetelling are order-sensitive and must reopen when the source claim set, pins, provenance, or admissible-face assumptions change. SpeculativeRetelling must reopen whenever stronger source binding becomes available or whenever the rendering starts to look like a canonical explanation rather than a clearly bounded exploratory retelling.
Hard boundary rules
A rendering reviewed under this profile keeps the following explicit:
- it does not create a second face family;
- it does not turn faces into a second semantic rule track;
- it does not license new
L/A/D/Eclaims on explanation faces (L/A/D/Ehere means A.6.B-routed law, admissibility, deontic/commitment, and effect/evidence claims); - it does not replace bridge discipline, retargeting discipline, or world/gate handoff discipline;
- it does not let
PublicationSurfaceandInteropSurfacecollapse into one undifferentiated explanation channel.
If explanation text starts carrying new semantic commitments instead of rendering or licensed explanation over existing ones, the case must leave this profile.
Archetypal grounding
Source-pinned explanation across multiple faces
Source claim slice. Claim D-14: Cooling loop CL-2 maintains the required temperature margin during standard load. Evidence pins: T-44, E-17.
Plain rendering. Cooling loop CL-2 keeps the required temperature margin in standard operation. Source pins: T-44, E-17.
Tech rendering. D-14 remains source-pinned to T-44 and E-17; this rendering only shortens and reorders the claim.
This stays within SourcePinnedRendering because the rendering changes readability, not the semantic load.
Source-linked reconstruction
Source slice. Claims D-14 and D-18 jointly constrain the safe operating window, but the relation is left implicit in the original note.
Published reconstruction. Claims D-14 and D-18 jointly bound the safe operating window; see the pinned source notes for the original wording and evidence anchors.
This stays within SourceLinkedReconstruction if the connective prose remains bounded and does not add new claims.
A minimal addedLinkPolicy for this slice would say:
addedLinkKind = relation-explication only;sourceAnchorSet = {D-14, D-18};boundednessReason = makes an already implied joint constraint explicit without adding a new mechanism, policy conclusion, or stronger modality;forbiddenLinkClass = design-level robustness or gate-sufficiency claim.
Mixed-face bundle with different explanation classes
Source slice. Claim D-31 and trace set T-8 jointly show that the reserve path remains available during the short overload interval.
Plain rendering. The reserve path stays available during the short overload interval. Source pins: D-31, T-8.
Tech rendering. D-31 and T-8 jointly support availability of the reserve path during the short overload interval; this rendering adds bounded connective prose to make the support relation explicit.
The Plain rendering may stay SourcePinnedRendering while the Tech rendering is SourceLinkedReconstruction. The bundle is admissible only if that class difference is stated rather than hidden under one blanket label.
Didactic retelling
Source slice. The pressure-control condition is satisfied whenever the reserve valve opens within 80 ms.
Didactic rendering. For onboarding: the system stays safe here because the reserve valve opens quickly enough; the exact threshold and source claim remain in the pinned technical note.
This stays in DidacticRetelling only if it is kept off Tech/Assurance faces where it could be mistaken for canonical semantics.
Speculative retelling
Source slice. The source materials record the observed recovery, but they do not explain why the recovery was so rapid.
Speculative rendering. One possible reading is that a temporary coupling effect accelerated recovery, but this is a reflective aid for discussion, not a source-backed claim.
This is admissible only as a clearly marked exploratory or didactic use on an existing face; it must not appear as policy-bearing, gate-bearing, or assurance-bearing content.
Anti-example: explanation that quietly becomes a new claim
Source slice. The pinned materials show the reserve path remained available during the short overload interval.
Overreaching rendering. The reserve-path design is therefore robust against short overloads.
This no longer stays inside explanation classification. The rendering introduces a stronger design-level commitment than the pinned source actually states, so the case must reopen and route toward the appropriate governing source instead of hiding inside a face-level explanation label.
Anti-example: reader help that quietly becomes policy-bearing use
Source slice. The onboarding note explains, in simplified prose, that the reserve valve usually opens quickly enough to keep the local pressure condition inside the tolerated window.
Overreaching rendering on a stronger face. Operators may rely on this explanation as sufficient assurance that short overloads stay inside the tolerated window.
This also exits the profile. The rendering is no longer only reader help over existing claims; it starts acting like policy-bearing or assurance-bearing guidance. The case must reopen, drop the explanation class, or move toward the appropriate downstream governing source rather than staying on an explanation face.
Boundary to lighter explanatory note with stronger-source return
Source slice. The technical incident note says the reserve path remained available during the measured load band, but it also keeps one unresolved ambiguity about recovery latency.
Lighter explanatory rendering. In plain terms: the reserve path stayed available during overload recovery.
This does not remain ordinary explanation profiling. The lighter note suppresses the load-band condition and the unresolved ambiguity, so it can stay honest only through narrower use, forbidden stronger use, and stronger-source return to the fuller source-bearing material. Once those weaker-use conditions become primary, the case must leave ordinary explanation classification and be governed as a coarsened rendering rather than as ordinary reader help.
Class-specific reopen cues in the worked slices
SourcePinnedRenderingreopens when the pinned source claim set, source pins, or admissible-face assumptions change so that the rendering can no longer remain omission-only and visibly source-bound.SourceLinkedReconstructionreopens when the connective prose begins carrying a stronger relation than the source justifies, or when the source claim set changes enough that the bounded reconstruction is no longer plainly source-linked.DidacticRetellingreopens when the rendering moves onto Tech or Assurance-facing use, or when reader-help prose starts functioning as policy-bearing, design-bearing, or gate-bearing guidance.SpeculativeRetellingreopens when stronger source binding becomes available, or when the rendering starts to behave like canonical explanation rather than clearly bounded exploratory help.
Boundary to interpretation and world handoff
If the rendering starts generating one bounded comparative review case, rival interpretations, bridge-mediated comparative claims, new hypotheses, or world/gate consequences, it must leave this profile and move toward the appropriate downstream source track (E.17.ID.CR, F.9.1, B.5.2, A.6.4, A.15, A.20, A.21).
Bias-Annotation
Lenses tested: Gov, Arch, Onto/Epist, Prag, Did. Scope: Universal for explanation-facing renderings that claim ExplanationFaithfulnessProfile on existing MVPK faces inside FPF.
This profile intentionally biases toward explanation restraint on existing faces and against face inflation, second semantic tracks, and reader-help authority drift. The main mitigation is explicit admissibility by face, strong no-new-L/A/D/E discipline, A.6.3.CSC reroute when weaker-use source support becomes primary, and hard exits to interpretation, retargeting, work, and world/gate governing sources when explanation stops being only explanation.
Conformance Checklist
- CC-EF-1 — Explanation class is explicit. The explanation class is explicitly named.
- CC-EF-2 — Admissible faces and surfaces are explicit. The rendering states admissible faces and surfaces explicitly.
- CC-EF-3 — Pinning, provenance, and reliability transport are explicit. Pinning, provenance, and reliability transport are stated explicitly.
- CC-EF-4 — Interpretant-side block is explicit when reader-fit does real work.
When onboarding, contrastive explanation, or other reader-fit shaping matters,
targetUserModel,interactionMode,contrastiveQuestion,allowedUse, andmisuseRiskare visible enough to review. - CC-EF-5 — No new
L/A/D/Eclaims on explanation faces. The no-new-boundary-claims rule is explicit on explanation faces;L/A/D/Erefers to A.6.B-routed law, admissibility, deontic/commitment, and effect/evidence claims. - CC-EF-6 — Boundary to interpretation, retargeting, coarsening, and world/gate handoff is explicit.
The reroute boundary is explicit, including
A.6.3.CSC Controlled Semantic Coarseningwhen a narrower-use / forbidden-use / stronger-source reopen condition becomes primary. - CC-EF-7 — No second face family. A reviewer can tell why the case remains explanation-facing rather than becoming a second semantic rule track.
- CC-EF-8 — Bundle-level class differences are explicit. When one publication bundle carries different explanation classes across faces, that difference is stated explicitly rather than hidden under one bundle-wide label.
- CC-EF-9 — Weakened classes publish forbidden downstream uses. Didactic or speculative renderings, and any rendering with downgraded reliability transport, state their forbidden downstream uses explicitly.
- CC-EF-10 — Reopen triggers match the class. The published review surface makes class-relevant reopen triggers visible when source claim set, pins, provenance, or admissible-face assumptions change.
- CC-EF-11 —
SourceLinkedReconstructionpublishesaddedLinkPolicywhen needed. When bounded connective prose is doing real review work, the rendering states what link is added, why it remains bounded, and which stronger link class is explicitly forbidden.
Common Anti-Patterns and How to Avoid Them
Consequences
- Explanation classes become explicit and reviewable.
- Existing MVPK face discipline stays intact.
- Pins, provenance, and evidence-binding become structural, not rhetorical extras.
- The boundary to interpretation, retargeting, and world/gate work becomes easier to review.
Rationale
Explanation help already appears on existing faces, and the nearest failure mode is to let helpful prose drift into hidden source claims, bridge-comparison load, or gate-bearing guidance. E.17.EFP gives the reader one practical benefit: they can tell whether a rendering is source-pinned, reconstructive, didactic, or speculative, and therefore whether it may stay as explanation help, must downgrade use, or must reroute because the rendering has stopped being only explanation-facing support.
SoTA-Echoing
SoTA note. This section does not mint an independent second rule layer. It is a load-bearing alignment surface: the Solution, Conformance Checklist, boundary rules, and Relations of this pattern must match the stance stated here or explicitly justify any divergence.
Traditions covered. This profile binds itself to architecture-description governance, explainability and reliability guidance, and faithfulness evaluation for natural-language explanations.
Architecture-description governance tradition. E.17.EFP adopts the rule that reader-helpful renderings stay subordinate to already governed publication material rather than replacing it. Explanation therefore remains on existing faces and is judged against source-bearing claims, pins, and provenance anchors.
Explainability and reliability traditions. E.17.EFP adopts the distinction between source-bound explanation and merely plausible explanation prose. It rejects the still-popular shortcut in which fluent or pedagogically useful language is treated as sufficient evidence of explanation faithfulness.
Local stance. Best-known current practice supports a narrow rule: explanation renderings are admissible only when their class, source anchoring, evidence relation, admissible faces, and forbidden downstream uses remain visible enough that reader help does not become a second semantic rule track.
Relations
- Builds on:
E.17.0,E.17,A.7,E.10.D2,A.6.B,F.9,F.18 - Coordinates with:
ConservativeRetextualization,RepresentationTransduction,A.6.3.CSC Controlled Semantic Coarsening,E.17.ID.CR ComparativeReading,A.6.4,A.15,A.20,A.21 - Primary governing-source relation and main exits: this profile stays governed by
E.17.0 / E.17; any move toward new semantics, coarsened weaker-use rendering, or gate-bearing use exits the profile - Boundary notes: comparative-interpretation cases exit to
E.17.ID.CR ComparativeReading; deliberately weaker explanation-like renderings whose narrower use, forbidden stronger use, and stronger-source reopen are primary route toA.6.3.CSC Controlled Semantic Coarsening; retargeting exits toA.6.4; world/gate-bearing consequences exit toA.15,A.20, orA.21.