Only sign-bound varga_style questions may omit a concrete period. Remaining-layer existence and quality probes now drop as yearless_ungrounded_contrast instead of scoring by group order.
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Decision and question ranking now share contrast option completion, so a
missing style card cannot deadlock the interview with a dead-end reply.
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Ask-holdout now requires a renderable choice frame. Scoring uses the same effective contrast kind as rendering, because the engine-varga.d9/d10 fork was live. varga_style weak_yes counts as a strong conflict; existence weak_yes still does not.
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