A reframe occasioned by a reading is a committed pointer to an event whose content stays local, and the frame it fingerprints is the framing as it presently stands, which adr-55 enumerates as three committed surfaces

Context

The cold-reading design lists where an accepted detection may land. Every landing exists but one: the frame. The design's landing table keeps two landings apart, the construal section rewritten by delivery (an Iteration 1 landing) and a frame-level revision record (Iteration 2), "without which a reframe occasioned by a reading cannot be recorded as a reframe". The closing run's purpose-durability and convergence readings need to tell a tension answered by a reframe from one answered by a build.

adr-55 rules that the framing as it presently stands is committed record and that declined construals, superseded terms and the reasoning that settled a dispute stay on the local side and are read by nothing automated. It enumerates that framing as three committed surfaces: The construal section's statement, the glossary's committed terms, and the committed scope. A frame-level record therefore cannot carry any prior text, and it cannot fingerprint fewer than the three surfaces without calling something narrower than the frame "the frame".

Decision

A reframe occasioned by a reading is one record in the working tier, beside the other reading families, carrying what occasioned it (a reading item, a disposition or a surprise), the content fingerprint of each of the three frame surfaces before and after the change, and the grounds. It carries no construal text, no term text and no scope text. It is warm, excluded from every reading by positive inclusion, and written only by a verb that reads the three surfaces' committed content itself and refuses a before-fingerprint it cannot find in their history.

The frame is the framing as it presently stands, which adr-55 enumerates as three committed surfaces: The construal section of the framing chapter, the committed glossary terms, and the committed scope. A reframe may touch any of the three, and the record shows which changed. A construal-only rewrite is one instance, not the definition.

Only a reframe a reading occasioned carries a record. A researcher may rewrite any of the three surfaces on their own account, and adr-55's rule that the construal is rewritten by delivery like any other brief passage stands for that case. This decision adds a pointer for the reading-occasioned case and no rule over every edit to the frame.

The join to the occasion is operator-asserted, with one check: the occasion predates the rewrite.

Alternatives Considered

1. Fingerprint the construal section alone. Simpler, and narrower than both the design's frame and adr-55's framing: a reading-occasioned change to the glossary or the scope would go unrecorded as a reframe. Rejected.
2. Require a reframe record on every frame edit, with a lint. Makes reframes countable at the cost of a rule on every edit to three brief surfaces and a lint that reads history, and the design asks only for the reading-occasioned case. Rejected for now; adoptable later without changing this record's shape.
3. Carry the prior text in the record. Breaches adr-55: the abandoned framing is exactly what stays local. Rejected.

Consequences

• The three frame surfaces carry no marker and no history; the join lives in the record.
• The record dispatcher gains the reframe family, and the scribe's derived allow list and the comparative position's derived exclusion rows pick the family up from the ledger's directory list without a further change.
• adr-55 is refined, not superseded: its rule about what is committed and what stays local is untouched, and its enumeration of the framing's committed surfaces is the one this record fingerprints.

Status note

Accepted by the maintainer on 2026-09-02, at the planning interview for the Iteration 2 intents, in the three-surface form because the single-section form contradicted the design's landing table and adr-55's enumeration of the framing's surfaces. Drafted as proposed and held there until that interview, because it refines an adopted decision, which is not an agent's act.