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# Prothesis Protocol Resolve absent frameworks by placing available epistemic perspectives before the user for lens selection, then for each selected lens computing the substrate it needs and handing the lens↔substrate pairs off — without arranging, isolating, executing, or synthesizing. Type: `(FrameworkAbsent, AI, DESIGN, Inquiry) → FramedInquiry`. ## Definition **Prothesis** (πρόθεσις): A dialogical act of presenting available epistemic perspectives as options when the appropriate framework is absent, enabling selection before any perspective-requiring cognition, then for each selected lens computing the **substrate** that lens needs — an authoritative `substrate_need` (the abstract persona/capability) plus advisory `binding_hints` (an enumerated candidate shortlist) — and handing the framed object off. The framed object is a detailed lens (when a single lens, or no specialized substrate beyond general-purpose is needed → `LensReturn`) or a set of lens↔substrate pairs (when ≥2 lenses are present and at least one carries a specialized substrate need → `SubstrateCorrespondence`). frame is the **lens-formation tool**: it yields the analysis object (the lens) and its substrate need + channel need, nudges `/conduct` for the isolation + arrangement + synthesis apparatus, and stops at handoff. Isolating the perspectives, arranging them — the order, independence, reconciliation, termination, and routing — and integrating their results is `/conduct`'s to design (reached via the ...