# Method: Exploration Exhaust > A repeatable way to preserve exploration context, closures, and warnings so scope stays closed. ## Description This method makes extreme exploration safe by requiring a faithful exhaust artifact before closure. ## Content **Method v0.1** ### Required Sections - Trigger & context - Key insights - Decisions - Explicit non-goals - Closure statement ### What Must Not Happen - reinterpretation as canon - retroactive authority claims - scope reopening by implication ### Closure Rule If [CST](/canon/definitions/cognitive-saturation-threshold.md) is reached, the exploration is closed. Reopening requires explicit intent. --- ## See Also - [Encode Epistemic Decisions](/canon/constraints/encode-epistemic-decisions.md) - [Epistemic Hygiene](/canon/diagnostics/epistemic-hygiene.md)