#G.12:3 — Forces

Preface node heading:g-12-3-forces:59817

#Content

• Legality and comparability are contract‑owned. Dashboards must not invent local legality/acceptance/normalization “mini‑specs”; they pin and cite CN‑Spec and CG‑Spec surfaces (routed via G.Core).
• Ordinal discipline is non‑negotiable. The most common dashboard failure mode is illicit arithmetic on ranks/categories; the kit must make “compare‑only” enforceable.
• Set‑returning discipline survives into views. Dashboards must not silently scalarize partial orders or selector portfolios; any scalarization/promotion is an explicit owner policy (routed via G.Core; semantics owned by the relevant pattern/policy).
• Edition‑awareness is the difference between “trend” and “drift”. If the method definition changes, the dashboard must either (i) fork series edition, or (ii) emit telemetry and refresh slices under pinned conditions.
• RSCR must be actionable. Causes are emitted as canonical ids (typed trigger kinds + id‑valued pins), not prose.