Answer A-290: a step answer over the steps state's bound is kept as an object the key names

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@@ -422,3 +422,7 @@ the principle that settles it, cited as "design 47 G A-n".
  watched branch, §505's manifest without MAJOR.MINOR, a candidate) counts as done, and the builder's unpublished
  count holds no package at all: a reserving build's package is published or its build fails, and a done key is never
  built again under a reservation, so no seat republishes a package (principle 7). The count holds images only.
+- **A-290** (A-254, §467; principles 3 and 7) A step's key in its build module's steps state keeps the step's answer
+  only within the state's bound per value; an answer over it, a check's or a run's alike, is kept as the object
+  `output.<ask>` in the module's outputs store and the key names it, and every reader (the checker, the asker) reads
+  the answer from the key or the object it names. No step ends passed in one place and failed in another.