# Canonical Variation Selection

> Compare all detected variations by frequency, completeness, architectural fitness, and semantic coverage, then select the canonical implementation from evidence rather than preference.

Record: `algorithms:canonical-variation-selection`
Kind: algorithm
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/algorithms#algorithms-canonical-variation-selection
Closure: https://banes-lab.com/json/records/algorithms/canonical-variation-selection/closure

Listed in [Algorithm contracts](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/algorithms.md), after [Detection Registry](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/detection-registry.md) and before [Architecture Compliance Targeting](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/architecture-compliance-targeting.md).

## Domain

- [Centralization](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms-domain/centralization.md)

## Stage

- [intent](https://banes-lab.com/records/stage/intent.md)

## Axis

- [teleology](https://banes-lab.com/records/reasoning/axis-teleology.md)

## Tier

- [process](https://banes-lab.com/records/vocabulary/domain-tier-process.md)

## Composes

- [Detection Registry](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/detection-registry.md)

## Named in the derivation of

- [Centralization Kernel](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/centralization-kernel.md)

## Math type

- [Optimization](https://banes-lab.com/records/reasoning/math-type-optimization.md)

## Force

- [Semantic consistency](https://banes-lab.com/records/force/semantic-consistency.md)

## Linked from

- [Centralization](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/algorithms/algorithms-domain-centralization.md)
- [The derivation loop](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/reasoning/reasoning-loop-derivation-loop.md)
- [The axes](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/reasoning/the-axes.md)
- [The mathematics](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/reasoning/the-mathematics.md)
- [Domain tiers](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-vocabulary-domain-tier.md)
- [The forces](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-forces.md)