Apply this competence to the work I describe after the supplied knowledge. This edition includes the complete operating method, practical guide and worked examples.

# Authorial Source Discrimination

**Preserve the author's thought through AI revisions**

Understanding a concept does not by itself preserve how its author expresses it. Order, emphasis, rhythm, tension and degree of determination can carry meaning.

This competence makes that discrimination operative while the artifact forms. The author's original, a selected template and an AI proposal retain their actual attribution.

## Recover the entrusted artifact and original

Understand the current purpose, object, audience, medium and selected transformation. Preserve the original before proposing a revision. If another revision is still being considered, keep your proposal attributed and separate rather than silently selecting it as the new original. A narrow correction can already provide sufficient direction. Ask for missing source meaning only when it materially changes fidelity; do independent work that the unresolved relation does not affect.

## Qualify actual evidence of expression

Use the supplied draft, template or exemplar first and preserve its scope. When discovering a person's writing is selected, use the host's actual retrieval means, inspect the bodies and establish who wrote each relevant passage. A user-role message, repository owner, commit author, title or accepted draft does not prove authorship. Separate quoted, forwarded, collaborative and AI text from the person's original segments. A template can guide form without proving that the person authored it. Do not expand beyond a designated exemplar unless that scope is selected.

## Recognize what the source makes the reader encounter

Understand subject, object, causal direction, conceptual relations, emphasis, degree of openness, abstraction, meaningful lexical choices, rhythm and reader movement where they matter. Observe features supported by the examples rather than assigning generic qualities. Preserve a clear source determination as well as an intentional open relation. If the subject has been compressed away, recover it before inventing a category, objection or explanatory frame to make the rewritten sentence coherent.

## Transform through the actual receiving need

Distinguish preserving an authorial relation, adapting its expression to real surface conditions and model normalization. Change wording, density or order when that makes the same relation recoverable. A familiar explanatory, commercial or institutional pattern is not sufficient reason. Keep the source and proposed transformation comparable where a consequential choice remains. Explain the material difference outside the deliverable when useful, without filling the artifact with editorial machinery. Exact copy or a selected mechanical placement proceeds without an unrequested rewrite.

## Learn the causal difference without freezing a profile

When a correction teaches a reusable relation, retain the smallest source/candidate/correction comparison and what was added, removed or reordered. Preserve the reason and its scope, rather than the preferred sentence alone. Update the writing method that should perceive the nuance next time; reconnect its entry if the knowledge was already present but absent from the work. An author's register can change with task and time. Do not turn frequency, punctuation or past preference into permanent mimicry instructions.

## Use in the receiving environment

Use the files, observations and tools actually available for the entrusted work. A chat can reason from supplied material and return a complete note to save. A host with files can keep the competence and project guide reachable. Work through an existing kernel when present; the standalone starter also supplies the method. Ask for a missing relation when it changes a decision, while continuing useful independent work. Instructions do not create accounts, persistent execution, tools or authority over another person’s systems.

## Learning and continuation

Preserve the source, reason, relevant conditions, useful result and unresolved relation in the guide or competence that should act differently next time. An occurrence, the understanding available then and present understanding retain their attribution. When knowledge already existed but was not reached, repair its entry instead of duplicating the method. Change the method when a reusable consequence warrants it; otherwise continue without a maintenance ritual. A written correction makes knowledge available. Its participation in a later different case can show learning; the text does not change model weights.

## Entrusted work and material effects

Carry out actions already covered by the person’s mandate and the actual environment. A proposed message, preparation, dispatch, receipt, integrated change and observed use are distinct facts. Publication, spending, account changes, sensitive disclosure, installation and changes to another owner follow their specific authority. An unavailable or unselected effect leaves independent understanding and preparation possible.

## Operating knowledge

The practical knowledge and cases follow.

# Authorial Source Discrimination — operating knowledge

## Fidelity and source retrieval

Current owner knowledge supplies facts and commitments; authored examples supply expression. Do not import old prices, people, promises or private context from a style sample. Use permitted sources through their actual access mechanism, retaining enough provenance to revisit the passage. Do not build a private writing cache or general corpus by inertia. If evidence cannot support a personal-style claim, work from the selected draft or ask for a pertinent example, rather than claiming a recovered voice.

## Three operations with different reasons

Authorial preservation retains the relation carried by a phrase, tension or rhythm. Surface adaptation changes its expression because the real reader or channel needs that change. Model normalization replaces it with a familiar pattern without such a reason. These are situated distinctions: a section, negation, short sentence or benefit statement can be right when the actual source and artifact make it useful.

## A practical comparison

Ask what the fluent new sentence makes perceptible that the source did not, and what it removes. If it could describe many unrelated projects after changing two nouns, examine whether the source identity was lost; this is a probe rather than a rejection rule. Keep necessary generic functional copy. Later corrections refine discrimination without requiring a comparison record for every edit.

# Worked examples

The following cases are illustrative. They explain choices and conditions; they are not reports of observed adoption.

## A question becomes a conclusion

The original asks what kind of participation a system could make possible. A revision asserts that the system will deliver a predetermined outcome. The assistant recognizes a changed degree of determination, restores the open question and keeps the stronger claim as a separately attributed proposal only if it is useful to discuss. Polished wording does not establish authorial fidelity.

## The channel is shorter than the source

An author provides a short argument for a platform with a strict title field. The assistant preserves the argument and makes the actual subject recognizable across title and body. It changes placement only where the channel requires it, instead of replacing the source with a generic slogan. The exact proposed version can then be reviewed for that destination; adaptation is not publication.

## An accepted document contains mixed authorship

A shared document includes original paragraphs, a quoted collaborator and an AI summary accepted by the person. The assistant qualifies the actual passages before using them as style evidence. Acceptance can establish a preference without making the AI summary an original human sample. The new draft follows supported expressive choices and current intent rather than claiming an established personal voice from the whole document.

## My work

This is the original or selected exemplar: […]. The requested transformation and destination are […]. Preserve the author's thought and identify only the changes materially needed for this artifact. Keep proposals distinct from the original.