What does an observer select?
Distinguish a situated account from a claim that every account is equally defensible.
Observation, boundaries, and the authority to act
This release follows a practical difficulty: recognising different accounts of a situation does not decide whose judgement governs, who can act, or how an intervention should change when its assumptions fail.
Whose account can change the decision?
Keep affected people, boundary judgements, and unresolved disagreement visible.
Who can act, and on what terms?
Follow structure, agency, method transitions, and the difference between self-production and operational discretion.
What changed
6 profiles deepened or qualified; 4 connections added and 2 revised. Three existing practice labs gain six worked rounds and four checks. The autonomy comparison retains its saved identifier but now distinguishes biological self-production from operational discretion.
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Limits
Source exposition and editorial comparison retain their distinct research status. Worked cases and counterexamples are explicitly invented for testing an inference. They are not evidence that an intervention worked in an actual organisation. Publication does not record a named curator’s acceptance, historical influence, or independent teaching review.