Remedial work begins only after Conservation, Registration, and Provenance have reviewed the case together and agreed that intervention is necessary and proportionate. The default position is restraint: damage is often evidence, and the institution does not restore an object toward a preferred story.

Treatments are reversible wherever the material allows, and every step is recorded — even where the record must be kept in a separate room from the object, because some accessions do not tolerate being described in their own presence. Where ordinary repair materials fail, compatible substrates are tested in quarantine before they are allowed to touch the original.

A treatment is not considered complete until its documentation is lodged, its materials are logged against the Meridian Standard, and the object has been returned to a storage condition that will not require the same intervention again.