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Feedback may revise a modelled estimate of a viable-action set; a typed direction may propose within it; separate current choice and authority govern any effect. 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It does not choose K, permit pointwise or clairvoyant policies, assume stationary uncertainty sets, prove real-world feasibility, establish goodness, or promise indefinite survival."],"source_refs":["src-aubin"],"declared_inputs":["post-observation I_0","compatible-state set B(I_0)","F_s","h_s","K","H","nonanticipatory policy class","time-indexed future uncertainty sets Xi_s for pairs (w_s,nu_{s+1})","information filtration"],"not_supplied":["legitimacy of K","rights compatibility","future observations","authority to apply policy"]}, {"id":"present-viable-action-key-set","result_kind":"FORMAL_DEFINITION","expression":"Key_H(I_t)={u_t in U(I_t) | exists one continuation pi_plus with u_s=pi_s(I_s) before xi_s for s>t, for all x_t in B(I_t), for all xi_{t:t+H-1} in Π_{s=t}^{t+H-1} Xi_s: for all s in {t,...,t+H}, x_s in K}, H>=1","model_scope":"Author-synthesized present action set after observing I_t, using one shared observation-compatible continuation for every x_t compatible with that realized history and every future pair xi_s=(w_s,nu_{s+1}).","assumptions":["H is an integer with H>=1","I_t is post-observation and B(I_t) contains modeled x_t compatible with that realized history","u_t is measurable with respect to I_t and is selected before xi_t","U(I_t), time-indexed Xi_s, F_s, h_s, and K are declared over s=t,...,t+H-1","one shared continuation pi_plus uses later post-observation I_s before xi_s and cannot select different policies for observationally indistinguishable histories"],"conclusion":"A key is a present post-observation-compatible modeled action for which one shared nonanticipatory continuation preserves modeled viability through t+H across compatible states and every declared future (w_s,nu_{s+1}) sequence.","limitations":["Aubin anchors viability vocabulary; this exact information-compatible shared-continuation Key_H is an author extension. Pointwise successor membership with a different continuation per hidden state is insufficient. A key is not a cryptographic key, credential, capability, permission, consent, choice, execution, guarantee, or moral authorization."],"source_refs":["src-aubin","pred-freedom"],"declared_inputs":["post-observation I_t","compatible-state set B(I_t)","U(I_t)","time-indexed Xi_s for future pairs (w_s,nu_{s+1})","F_s","h_s","K","H>=1","information filtration"],"not_supplied":["permission","consent","selection","execution","worth"]}, {"id":"reach-avoid-safe-terminal-handoff","result_kind":"FORMAL_DEFINITION","expression":"ReachAvoid_H^rob(K,T)={I_0 | exists one policy pi with u_s=pi_s(I_s) before xi_s, exists one stopping functional tau adapted to post-observation I_s, for all x_0 in B(I_0), for all xi_{0:H-1} in Π_{s=0}^{H-1} Xi_s: tau_pi(x_0,xi)<=H, (for all s