Who answers a question under a policy Diagram

Adopt: accept a proposal, including case edits, conflicts and policy changes. Map: decide what to do with a test with no case. Failure: explain a failed or disputed result. Finding: decide what to do with a finding. Signoff: decide whether to close a run.

The first clause of this kind whose conditions all hold wins. Conditions can include the author, a conflict, a policy change, the result’s scope or an answer being offered. Mainworthy matches again when someone answers.
The clause names a rule, a member with the right to answer, an admin, or the proposal’s author. It also says whether an agent’s answer counts, is advice, or is refused; whether a reason is required; and whether the evidence’s producer may decide.
Answers must use current evidence. A counted answer still needs the right permissions and must be applicable. Advice is recorded and shown without settling the question. A refused answer is not recorded.

Ordinary edits are accepted by rule. Tests without cases are tracked by rule, without creating a case. Passed runs are approved by rule. Other signoff answers need a person.
Failures and findings ask a member; agents advise. For a finding, an agent with the right to answer may count when answering “duplicate”.

A person’s ordinary edits are accepted by rule. An agent’s edits wait for a person; the agent cannot answer that adoption question. Tests without cases ask a member or an agent with the right to answer.
Failures and findings ask a member; agents advise. A disputed result needs a person who did not produce the evidence, and agents are refused. Passed runs are approved by rule; other signoff answers need a person.

Ordinary edits, tests without cases, failures, findings and run signoff all ask a person for a reason. Agents’ answers are refused. A failure also excludes whoever produced its evidence.
The shared clauses still apply: a policy change asks a human admin; a conflict asks its author if a person, or a human admin. Neither requires a reason. An agent author may withdraw its own conflicting proposal.

A rule’s answer enters the same decision record as a person’s, with the signer, policy version, clause, answer, evidence basis and time. Only then is the decided effect applied. Advice and refusal have no decided effect.
A rejection or “track without a case” may leave current state unchanged. A rule that cannot apply its answer leaves the question open. A withdrawn or overruled rule answer leaves a person to decide rather than silently applying the rule again.