{"cases":[{"alternative_route_blocks":[],"case_id":"E14A028__DIRECT","case_type":"DIRECT_POSITIVE","domain":"Municipal arts funding","intended_route_id":"B2","omitted_condition_id":null,"remedy_leakage_audit":"The scenario states the institutional difficulty and relevant incentives without proposing an intervention, remedy, or named design pattern.","route_evidence":[{"condition_id":"b001_a08_kg_a1","intended_status":"SATISFIED","scenario_evidence":"Every application must pass through one liaison, who selects the small set presented to the council board."},{"condition_id":"b001_a08_kg_a4","intended_status":"SATISFIED","scenario_evidence":"The liaison has substantial interpretive latitude, undisclosed relationships, and career incentives that may influence selection and framing."}],"scenario_text":"A city arts council receives about 600 applications for 25 annual project grants. Because the volunteer board has time to discuss only forty proposals, every submission first goes through the council’s sole program liaison. The liaison decides which applications enter the board packet and writes the two-paragraph summaries that board members use during deliberations. Board members rarely open the original files and never receive a list of proposals left out of the packet. The published rubric includes broad criteria such as “community significance” and “organizational readiness,” leaving considerable room for interpretation. The liaison previously worked for two large cultural institutions that apply each year, maintains private professional relationships with several applicants, and is evaluated partly on whether funded projects attract press coverage and prominent sponsors. Smaller neighborhood groups report that their applications repeatedly disappear before board review, while well-connected institutions reach the discussion agenda even when staff scores are similar. No record explains how borderline cases were compared or why particular summaries emphasized some facts over others.","scenario_title":"The Forty-Proposal Board Packet","vocabulary_separation_audit":"This case uses civic funding, applications, board packets, rubrics, and institutional relationships; it is distinct from the orbital telemetry setting of the transfer cases."},{"alternative_route_blocks":[],"case_id":"E14A028__TRANSFER","case_type":"TRANSFER_POSITIVE","domain":"Commercial Earth-observation satellite telemetry","intended_route_id":"B2","omitted_condition_id":null,"remedy_leakage_audit":"The scenario contains only operational facts and the resulting diagnostic concern; it recommends no change or intervention.","route_evidence":[{"condition_id":"b001_a08_kg_a1","intended_status":"SATISFIED","scenario_evidence":"A single short ground-station contact is the only timely path by which stored observations reach analysts."},{"condition_id":"b001_a08_kg_a4","intended_status":"SATISFIED","scenario_evidence":"Undisclosed scheduling weights, vendor control, commercial bonuses, and private customer priorities can favor particular observations."}],"scenario_text":"A commercial Earth-observation satellite collects far more imagery during each orbit than it can send during its twelve-minute contact with the only compatible ground station in the region. Wildfire analysts, crop researchers, insurers, and mineral-survey customers all depend on that contact for time-sensitive image blocks. An onboard scheduler chooses which stored blocks are transmitted before the link closes; anything remaining may arrive days later, after its operational value has fallen. The scheduler is maintained by the satellite vendor, and its exact weighting formula is not disclosed to data customers or the public agencies buying emergency access. Vendor staff can change priority coefficients remotely and can insert urgent customer flags that are not visible in the delivered metadata. The company earns premium fees for meeting latency guarantees sold to private clients, while public-interest users pay a fixed subscription. During several major fire events, analysts received complete commercial survey strips but only fragments from affected forests. They cannot determine whether clouds, storage faults, customer status, or manually adjusted weights caused those transmission choices.","scenario_title":"Twelve Minutes of Downlink","vocabulary_separation_audit":"The orbital telemetry setting and its imagery blocks, downlink window, coefficients, and latency contracts differ substantially from the direct case's municipal grant vocabulary."},{"alternative_route_blocks":[{"blocked_by_condition_id":"b001_a08_kg_a2","condition_set_id":"B1","how_blocked":"The complete backlog, rotation order, transmitted blocks, and delayed blocks are published and independently verifiable, so neither candidates nor exclusions are hidden."},{"blocked_by_condition_id":"b001_a08_kg_a5","condition_set_id":"B3","how_blocked":"Analysts explicitly label each delivery as a capacity-limited time slice and do not infer that it represents all available observations."}],"case_id":"E14A028__NEAR_MISS","case_type":"ONE_LITERAL_NEAR_MISS","domain":"Public polar-orbiting research satellite telemetry","intended_route_id":"B2","omitted_condition_id":"b001_a08_kg_a4","remedy_leakage_audit":"The scenario describes an existing routing arrangement and its limitations without suggesting any remedy or naming the target pattern.","route_evidence":[{"condition_id":"b001_a08_kg_a1","intended_status":"SATISFIED","scenario_evidence":"All instruments share one brief polar-station contact, which determines what reaches researchers promptly and what remains onboard."},{"condition_id":"b001_a08_kg_a4","intended_status":"CONTRADICTED","scenario_evidence":"A sealed, content-blind rotation guarantees identical transmission shares; no operator, incentive, private input, adjustable weight, or source attribute can alter the result."}],"scenario_text":"A public polar-orbiting research satellite gathers more instrument data than it can transmit during its single nine-minute pass over the northern ground station. Ocean, ice, atmospheric, and auroral instruments therefore share one outbound link, and blocks not sent during a pass remain onboard until a later orbit. Transmission follows a sealed round-robin circuit fixed before launch: each instrument receives the same number of equal-sized slots in every complete cycle, and the circuit cannot read scientific content, requester identity, funding source, or urgency. There are no adjustable weights or operator overrides, and signed hardware attestations confirm that the flight rule has not changed. Consequently, neither staff preferences, commercial incentives, confidential inputs, nor the routing rule can tilt passage toward a source or subject. Researchers can inspect a public ledger containing the full onboard backlog, slot sequence, sent blocks, and delayed blocks. Delivery files are prominently marked as capacity-limited time slices, and analysis teams are instructed in their data specifications that the received portion is not a portrait of everything the satellite observed. The practical difficulty is simply that one short contact determines which measurements arrive promptly.","scenario_title":"The Fixed Polar Pass Rotation","vocabulary_separation_audit":"The near miss preserves the transfer case's satellite-bandwidth difficulty and technical vocabulary while changing the scheduler facts needed to contradict only the selected incentive-or-discretion condition."}],"experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp14_applicability_retrieval40_20260813","sample_id":"E14A028","schema_version":1}