Remark. Potential depends on the intervention and budget [ftip-005N]

The potential \(\Phi \) describes how evaluation performance varies with the base artifact, admissible information, protocol family, and resource budget. The definition supplies no scaling exponent and no guarantee that a maximizing protocol exists.

Empirical studies provide conditional points or bounds only after their protocol, evaluator, and costs are embedded in this interface. An observed benchmark maximum need not equal a universal ceiling.