Reliability, Cost, and Compensation v0.1

Reliability, Cost, and Compensation v0.1 defines the functional architecture through which Human Restoration Theory (HRT) treats reliability, cost, and compensation under mechanical and task constraint. Reliability is defined as preservation of a specified functional criterion across repetitions, perturbations, duration, and relevant context changes. Cost is treated as a multidomain burden—including metabolic, neuromuscular, regulatory, temporal, recovery, and experiential domains—rather than a single score. Compensation is defined as a reference-dependent reorganization that preserves a task outcome under an identified constraint; it is not inherently pathological or inefficient. The paper advances the conditional HRT proposition that, at matched task demand and functional reliability, more reliable skeletal load conduction may require less persistent corrective demand and less costly or narrow compensatory dependence. It specifies measurement boundaries, competing explanations, candidate relations, and falsification rules. This document is dependent on: Human Restoration Theory: Core Architecture v1.0Version 1.0 | July 2026 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21392417 Measurement and Falsification Architecture v0.1DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21393511 Mechanics of Load Conduction v0.1DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21393789