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14.6 Canonical compositions

Different problems call for different registered workflow graphs.

Composition	Use	Characteristic risk
\(C\to O\to R\)	Begin from an admitted mechanism, construct an operation, then deploy it	Causal relevance need not imply decision value
\(R\to C\to O\to R\)	Let persistent policy failure request causal experiments and a new skill	Reward failure may be mislocalized as a causal defect
\(O\to R\to C\)	Explore with newly composed skills, then explain the resulting regime differences	Tool-induced artifacts may masquerade as world mechanisms
\(C\otimes R\to O\)	Jointly use mechanistic and decision evidence to specify a skill	Conflicting evidence may be prematurely collapsed
\((C\to O\to R)^{\circlearrowleft }\)	Iterative scientific action and theory revision	Feedback can amplify an early false accommodation

Table 14.1 Registered compositions of the three creativity workflows. The ordering is an empirical choice, not a universal law.

The system should be able to abstain not only on a domain proposal but also on workflow selection. When two orderings are observationally indistinguishable, the appropriate output may be an equivalence class of workflow graphs or a request for a discriminating meta-experiment.