Required inputs
Shared celestial state
Tropical convention
Named sidereal convention
Rule namespace
Comparison question
Ordered execution
Work the protocol
- 1
Verify the shared body and instant.
- 2
Separate coordinate transformation from interpretation.
- 3
Compare numerical longitude before sign labels.
- 4
Apply each tradition’s own rule namespace.
- 5
Refuse a winner without prospective evaluation.
Outputs
- Shared-fact table
- Frame-specific outputs
- Allowed and prohibited comparisons
Done only when
- Agreement and disagreement are both explicit.
- No blended chart is emitted.
- Empirical status remains separate.
Fail closed
Refusal conditions
- Sidereal convention is unnamed.
- Rules cross namespaces.
- A sign disagreement is called different sky.