DISTILL Prior-Authority Reconciliation
Run before authoring or binding an acceptance oracle.
- Read the value seed and only the durable product authorities it names: vision, job, journey and KPI identities.
- Read the relevant architecture brief/ADRs, including reuse, route, prefactoring, paradigm, targets, ports/boundaries, cross-layer laws, residual stress decisions and test substrate.
- Read platform/environment authorities only when the delivery has an operational obligation.
- Reconcile contradictions by their durable owner. A contradiction blocks and is returned to the durable authority that owns the fact; do not write an upstream-issues file or copy the dispute into a second document.
- Missing design required for an executable oracle blocks with WHAT/WHY/HOW.
A genuinely unaffected optional lens is
NOT_APPLICABLE, not a fabricated section. - Record semantic decisions only in their durable authority. No wave log, handover, delta or progress ledger.
The output is the minimum verified semantic input needed by nw-distill:
product intent, durable design decisions, oracle choice, boundaries,
obligations and applicability. Software derives execution details.