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Bounded guidance template

A Playbook lesson or recipe that moves Gate → Check → Next Move → Evidence Return.

Pattern ID

bounded-guidance

Implementation

Contract-only template

Live examples

Where this page type is used and why

Use when the reader needs to perform one governed action while preserving stop, recovery and review authority.

Prepare two linked human-owned decisions and return evidence to a later choice.

Choose where and why to commit, route how and who should act, and learn without surrendering authority.

Proof signal: A cold reader recovers the choice, reasons, work, method, performer, authority, alternatives, gauges, and review trigger.

Carry a Decision Trace into a human-accepted mandate for one job.

Agree one bounded job without expanding the human's authority.

Proof signal: The exact trace revision, permissions, acceptance evidence, stop, and recovery survive the handoff.

Append evidence to the accepted trace and return a human-owned next decision.

Compare prediction with consequence without inventing beneficiary benefit.

Proof signal: The original prediction remains intact, unknown effects stay unknown, and the human owns the next decision.

Put the gate before the checklist; do not let action start before authority is clear.
Name stop and recovery where the move can cost time, trust, money, privacy, safety or agency.
End with evidence return, not a generic next article.

Use when the reader still needs to choose which job applies.

Use when the primary job is framing a human-owned choice rather than executing the method.