{
  "example_kind": "original synthetic manual planning case",
  "slug": "priority-feasibility-before-score",
  "title": "Apply hard eligibility before priority scores",
  "scenario": "Synthetic planning case: Two proposed work routes receive local preference scores of ninety and seventy. Route A takes five model days; B takes two. The required receiving window is three days.",
  "layout": "allocation",
  "dataset": {
    "heading": "Inspect the invented case records",
    "headers": [
      "Route",
      "Preference points",
      "Model days",
      "Three-day eligibility"
    ],
    "rows": [
      [
        "A",
        "90",
        "5",
        "Fails"
      ],
      [
        "B",
        "70",
        "2",
        "Passes"
      ]
    ]
  },
  "derivation": "Eligibility is duration≤3 before score comparison. Five exceeds three; two does not. A preference score is not permission to relax the requirement.",
  "result": "Route A is ineligible under the declared three-day requirement despite its higher score. Compare preferences only among eligible routes; B fits this supplied timing rule.",
  "boundary": "This separates a binary eligibility gate from preference ranking.",
  "limitations": "Scores and durations are invented inputs. The requirement may be reconsidered explicitly, but never silently waived by arithmetic.",
  "sources": [
    "original"
  ],
  "tasks": [
    [
      "Confirm the hard requirement",
      "Receiving owner",
      "The three-day receiving window is explicit and still governs."
    ],
    [
      "Separate eligibility and preference",
      "Planner",
      "A is excluded by timing before comparing ninety with seventy."
    ],
    [
      "Review the eligible route",
      "Decision owner",
      "B’s other required inputs and acceptance evidence are checked separately."
    ]
  ],
  "faqs": [
    [
      "Can a high score override the deadline?",
      "Only an authorized requirement change can do that; the score itself cannot."
    ],
    [
      "Does B’s timing fit prove overall readiness?",
      "No. This exercise tests one declared constraint, not every delivery condition."
    ]
  ],
  "method_references": [
    {
      "id": "original",
      "title": "Original worked-case definitions",
      "scope": "Definitions, policy choices, records and calculations are authored for this worksheet. No external standard, statistical validation or live product measurement is claimed."
    }
  ]
}