frontend-patterns/research/reviews/PreviewOntology-0.1.md

Ontology review for the 0.1 reference subset

2026-09-27, Codex author-model editorial review. Owner WP-0003 T03. Bounded result: retain with qualifications. M2 remains open. No general proof of minimal responsibilities, independent dimensions or complete pattern recurrence.

Conflict Copy versus Explicit Reconciliation

Retain two research identities for preview retrieval:

• Conflict Copy answers “how do we keep detected competing content available while continuing work?” Its result is preserved divergence, not resolved meaning.
• Explicit Reconciliation answers “how do we decide intended content and record the decision?” It can use a version store without making a separate conflict file.

Preservation may precede manual review, but may also be followed by a justified automatic merge or a deferred decision. Manual comparison can receive alternatives from a revision store. Therefore neither unconditional requires edge is justified. Export one conditional creates-context-for edge from CAND-0001 to CAND-0004 and state the conditions. This is conceptual reasoning, not an observed independent implementation of both complete contracts. Test whether readers can select one without being forced into the other; merge later if that distinction proves unhelpful.

Other decisions

Question	Preview disposition	Limit
Pending Synchronization versus Mutation Outcome Tracking	Retain both: local work may already be accepted while remote propagation is pending; remote write acceptance may instead be unknown	Shared operation-state model may motivate later refactoring; no full recurrence claim
Version precondition versus operation identity	Distinct obligations: stale-base rejection versus recovery of a particular attempt	One does not establish the other; receiver semantics must be checked
Local draft versus locally accepted record	Retain separate; editable intent need not be durable or locally authoritative	Add persistence only under explicit policy/storage requirements
Authority, projection and delivery	Apply the six-question aid; retain the six seeds without new drafts	Separate decisions with compatibility constraints, not universally independent axes
Families versus responsibilities	Keep separate classification fields; quality is a family, reconciliation a responsibility	Provisional direct-mechanism assignments and selected forces are not exhaustive ontology proof
Relations and prerequisites	Export only scoped proposals with rationale; no inverse, symmetric or transitive inference	Proposed links are not canonical graph edges; contextual conditions are not pattern IDs
Scale coverage	Preserve current labels and gaps, including L0/L7	No automatic relabeling to fill empty cells

No M2-CoverageReview pass is claimed: VC-04/05 are absent and VC-03/06 remain provisional. This closes the preview's bounded ontology inspection, not WP-0003 T03. Independent retrieval/usefulness and broader case outcomes may overturn these provisional choices.