Geltungs-Pruefkunde: Assessing Additional Contributions in Emerging Research Programmes

This conceptual methods companion develops Geltungs-Pruefkunde as a focused module for comparing contribution claims with specified existing work. It complements MG3 (coherence) and MG4 (legitimacy) in Meta-Sciences of Disciplinary Formation. Seven revisable commitments, six record types, seven relations, three invented cases and three research questions distinguish originality, usefulness, evidential support and social field formation. The paper revises historical graded-maturity and independent-field formulations without presenting them as one validated procedure. New predictions, unfamiliar terminology and empty taxonomy positions are not treated as automatic evidence of a new discipline. The proposed module has no demonstrated effectiveness, universal acceptance criterion or validated quality score. Historical operational details and private materials are excluded. English paper with German abstract, conceptual JSON model, README and SHA-256 manifest. Sources were consulted selectively, not through an exhaustive novelty review. Drafting and editorial checks were AI-assisted; no external peer review or personal sentence-by-sentence author review is asserted. This is a new open edition; previous archive records remain unchanged.