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    "schema_version": 1,
    "case_id": "SC-9fd1b020d3db4283b0e19a5619cb7b87",
    "kind": "sanitised-teaching-case",
    "title": "Make no action a legitimate decision",
    "audience_role": "Service managers choosing whether to respond to an incoming request",
    "meaning": {
      "communication_job": "Make action conditional on a useful contribution.",
      "audience_question": "Do we have something useful to contribute before choosing a response?",
      "point": "Checking contribution before selecting a response prevents activity from becoming an end in itself.",
      "reasoning_relation": "Monitor or receive, assess contribution, act conditionally or take no action.",
      "reader_before": "The reader assumes every incoming opportunity needs a response.",
      "reader_after": "The reader can distinguish a qualifying opportunity from one that should receive no action.",
      "intended_contribution": "Make the threshold and both outcomes explicit; response methods are alternatives after the gate.",
      "required_evidence": [
        "A stated definition of useful contribution.",
        "An accountable person or team to make the judgment.",
        "The available response methods and the limits of each."
      ],
      "invariants": [
        "The gate precedes the choice of response.",
        "No action is a valid explicit outcome.",
        "Alternative response methods are not cumulative commitments.",
        "The existence of a monitoring concept does not prove an installed system."
      ],
      "poor_fits": [
        "Mandatory reporting or emergency procedures where silence is not allowed.",
        "A checkbox score that disguises a judgment call.",
        "Guaranteed service promises without capacity or ownership."
      ]
    },
    "narrative": {
      "before": "Define the purpose of the service and the requests within its remit.",
      "after": "For a qualifying request, choose one appropriate response and assign responsibility.",
      "illustrative_flow": [
        "Receive request",
        "Assess useful contribution",
        "Respond or take no action",
        "Choose response method if proceeding"
      ],
      "conditional_branch": "If the gate is not satisfied, stop the response path. Reassess only when materially new information changes the contribution."
    },
    "layout": {
      "code": "S58",
      "option": "response-gate",
      "relationship": "existing-arrangement",
      "basis": "Conditional-table variation of S58: a single governing criterion and explicit No/Yes outcome columns. It is not the default package comparison or a reproduction of source geometry.",
      "editable_pptx": "unverified"
    },
    "slots": [
      {
        "name": "eyebrow",
        "purpose": "Identify this as fictional teaching material.",
        "member_count": 1
      },
      {
        "name": "headline",
        "purpose": "State the communication point and its relevance.",
        "member_count": 1
      },
      {
        "name": "closing",
        "purpose": "Land the implication or prepare the next unit.",
        "member_count": 1
      },
      {
        "name": "qualification",
        "purpose": "Keep evidence status and material limitations visible.",
        "member_count": 1
      },
      {
        "name": "test",
        "purpose": "The criterion that must be judged before any response.",
        "member_count": 1
      },
      {
        "name": "outcomes",
        "purpose": "Explicit No and Yes outcomes; response methods occur only after Yes.",
        "member_count": 2
      },
      {
        "name": "methods",
        "purpose": "Alternative methods available only after the gate is met.",
        "member_count": 3
      }
    ],
    "worked_example": {
      "fictional": true,
      "scenario": "A fictional volunteer craft desk receives requests for project advice. It proposes responding only when it can add a relevant, reliable suggestion within its agreed remit.",
      "decision": "Adopt a contribution check before choosing a short note, worked example or scheduled conversation.",
      "slot_fills": [
        {
          "slot": "eyebrow",
          "units": [
            {
              "label": "Status",
              "fields": [
                {
                  "label": "text",
                  "text": "Fictional teaching example / Response gate"
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "slot": "headline",
          "units": [
            {
              "label": "Point",
              "fields": [
                {
                  "label": "text",
                  "text": "Respond when the contribution is useful."
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "slot": "closing",
          "units": [
            {
              "label": "Next",
              "fields": [
                {
                  "label": "text",
                  "text": "No useful contribution means no response."
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "slot": "qualification",
          "units": [
            {
              "label": "Limits",
              "fields": [
                {
                  "label": "text",
                  "text": "Fictional teaching scenario, not observed results or an approved operating plan. This is not an emergency or mandatory-response service. No system, staffing assignment or service-level agreement is represented as operating."
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "slot": "test",
          "units": [
            {
              "label": "Gate",
              "fields": [
                {
                  "label": "text",
                  "text": "Can the desk add a relevant, reliable suggestion within its remit?"
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "slot": "outcomes",
          "units": [
            {
              "label": "No",
              "fields": [
                {
                  "label": "text",
                  "text": "Take no action on this request."
                },
                {
                  "label": "condition",
                  "text": "Reassess only when materially new information changes the contribution."
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "label": "Yes",
              "fields": [
                {
                  "label": "text",
                  "text": "Choose one appropriate response."
                },
                {
                  "label": "condition",
                  "text": "An accountable owner checks relevance, reliability and remit."
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        },
        {
          "slot": "methods",
          "units": [
            {
              "label": "Short note",
              "fields": [
                {
                  "label": "text",
                  "text": "Short note"
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "label": "Worked example",
              "fields": [
                {
                  "label": "text",
                  "text": "Worked example"
                }
              ]
            },
            {
              "label": "Scheduled conversation",
              "fields": [
                {
                  "label": "text",
                  "text": "Scheduled conversation"
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "why_it_works": "The instruction evaluates value before format, and makes doing nothing visibly part of the process rather than an accidental omission.",
      "qualification": "Fictional teaching scenario, not observed results or an approved operating plan. This is not an emergency or mandatory-response service. No system, staffing assignment or service-level agreement is represented as operating."
    },
    "sanitisation": {
      "method": "semantic-abstraction-and-fictional-reconstruction",
      "replaced": [
        "Organisation, people, sector, setting and activities independently reconstructed.",
        "No original names, quotations, figures, dates, screenshots, logos, native notes or links retained.",
        "No persistent client aliases or proportional price transformations used."
      ],
      "preserved": [
        "The gate precedes the choice of response.",
        "No action is a valid explicit outcome.",
        "Alternative response methods are not cumulative commitments.",
        "The existence of a monitoring concept does not prove an installed system."
      ],
      "losses": [
        "A complete conditional table compresses a branching process; labels preserve the stop condition and the downstream choice.",
        "Specific systems, markets and outreach channels are excluded."
      ],
      "residual_risk": "Local review found no retained identifying combination in this independently authored example. A generic reasoning relationship may recur elsewhere; this is not formal anonymity or publication clearance.",
      "linkage_boundary": "restricted-bridge-outside-reuse-package"
    }
  },
  "reviews": {
    "privacy": {
      "status": "reviewed",
      "reviewer": "Tessel / production adaptation review",
      "date": "2026-10-14",
      "basis": [
        "Reviewed the complete independently fictional payload and its combinations. No client assets, identifiers, source paths, source hashes or correspondence included.",
        "Adapted copy and new-count scenario reviewed; no claim of formal anonymity."
      ],
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    },
    "semantic": {
      "status": "reviewed",
      "reviewer": "Tessel / production adaptation review",
      "date": "2026-10-14",
      "basis": [
        "Compared the adaptation with the reviewed fictional preparation: audience change, reasoning, conditions, evidence status and neighbouring dependencies preserved.",
        "Reviewed the exact slot fills and count; separate render and interaction evidence is recorded in batch-02-review.json. Intended contribution is not measured persuasion."
      ],
      "payload_sha256": "436d34f9708f340544d2d6200406964bdfd6d3136d8b145d9648293e01b4c0e3"
    }
  }
}