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    <description>Eight essays on specification, reasoning, evidence, authority, history, and learning: from a desired outcome to a promise others can rely on.</description>
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      <title>Parse the Proposal, Then Assess It</title>
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      <description>A structural contract makes model output usable without confusing format, evidence, and authority.</description>
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      <title>Ask the Solver What It Can Establish</title>
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      <description>Feasibility, optimality, unresolved search, and model errors support different conclusions.</description>
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      <title>Let Models Reason Without Granting Them Authority</title>
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      <description>Models can develop proposals; a binding undertaking requires an explicit mandate.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Organize Alternative Attempts</title>
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      <description>Formations make room for different approaches, disagreement, and unsuccessful results.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Describe What Should Be True</title>
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      <description>A specification gives people and systems a shared outcome to work toward.</description>
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      <title>Explain Why the Attempt Stopped</title>
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      <description>Useful observations connect outcomes to the conditions that produced them.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Keep the History When the Answer Changes</title>
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      <description>A current view can change without erasing the proposal or promise that came before it.</description>
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      <title>Make Authority Explicit</title>
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      <description>Identity, evidence, selection, and permission to bind the organization are separate checks.</description>
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