case-closurelisted

# Case Closure ## The rule A decision, once locked, reopens on new facts only. Ask the gate question unchanged every time a settled matter returns: "What is the new fact?" Treat a new mood as no fact at all — restlessness, dread, and second thoughts are not inputs to a ruling. Treat a new argument assembled entirely from old facts as no fact either; the arguing window closed at lock time. Write the log at lock time — the ruling, the date, the facts beneath it — because "new" cannot be tested against a memory. When a real new fact does arrive, reopen formally: state it, re-run the decision with it included, re-lock, update the log. ## Triggers - A matter recorded as decided returns to the conversation with no new information attached to it. - The user asks the same settled question a third time. - The user revisits a choice after a bad night, a long weekend, or at an hour when everything looks worse than it is. - A single offhand remark from a stranger, one comment thread, or one piece of unsolicited feedback is offered as grounds to reopen. - A competitor or peer makes a visible move and the user reads it as a verdict on their own settled choice. - The user opens with "I have been thinking about this again" and everything that follows was already known at lock time. - The same underlying doubt appears in a new costume — different wording, different justification, identical worry. - Execution has become difficult and the difficulty is being reinterpreted as evidence that t