Forensic Reconstruction Instrument — User Guide Split
One instrument, two primary operating envelopes. The machinery is common; the discipline, burden, and permitted use differ by user class.
Primary User Class
Target User Guides
For the person reconstructing a lived evidential sequence. These guides prioritise preservation, temporal ordering, corpus assembly, authoring discipline, and release control.
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Primary User Class
State User Guides
For institutional readers, reviewers, oversight actors, and governance users. These guides prioritise lawful engagement, provenance testing, limits of the instrument, and prevention of misuse.
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Target user operating envelope
The target user is close to the events. The guide set therefore suppresses premature accusation and forces the work back into sequence, source, date, document, and controlled release.
- Build the chronology before interpretation.
- Separate evidence, appendix reasoning, claims, and release checks.
- Use the validator as a grammar safeguard, not as a truth engine.
State user operating envelope
The state user is remote from the events but carries institutional power. The guide set therefore restricts over-reading, demands provenance testing, and prevents diagnostic structure being treated as adjudication.
- Read the grammar before drawing conclusions.
- Test the corpus, not merely the visible surface node.
- Do not convert structural visibility into findings beyond the evidential register.