all-information-flow-is-fault-tolerant-and-governed
OUT derived (depth 5)
Every information flow path through the system is simultaneously fault-tolerant (graceful degradation on FTS5 index failures, LLM timeouts, and missing source files) and governed (pure deterministic functions with fixed priority ordering, access-tag authorization gating, and token-budget constraints) — no information retrieval can fail catastrophically, and no information output can bypass authorization or exceed bounds.
Summary
This is the strongest overall safety claim the system can make: that every path information takes — from retrieval through to output — is both resilient to failures and controlled by authorization and resource limits. Because it is currently retracted, at least one of its supporting claims has been invalidated, meaning the system cannot currently guarantee that all information flows are simultaneously safe and governed.
Justifications
SL — Fault tolerance ensures availability under adverse conditions, while governance ensures confidentiality and bounded output — together they establish that information flow is both reliable and controlled.
Antecedents (all must be IN):
- all-information-retrieval-is-fault-tolerant — Every information retrieval path — structured reads (FTS search with index self-healing, staleness checking with deterministic output, compact with pure bounded distillation) and LLM-synthesized queries (ask with bounded tool loops and raw search fallback) — degrades gracefully rather than failing, ensuring the system always returns useful results
- all-output-is-deterministic-authorized-and-resilient — All information leaving the belief network is simultaneously deterministic (pure functions with fixed priority ordering), authorized (access-tag subset-gated), budget-constrained (token limits enforced), and resilient to environmental variation (self-healing indexes, exception-free operation) — every output path enforces all four properties.
Dependents
These beliefs depend on this one:
- user-interface-is-verified-and-fault-tolerant — The complete user-facing stack is both structurally verified (pure delegation with hermetic integration tests ensuring no business logic leaks into the CLI) and operationally resilient (every information flow path is fault-tolerant with graceful degradation and governed output) — users never encounter unverified logic or ungoverned failure modes.