complete-operational-uniformity-across-all-sources

OUT derived (depth 6)

All mutation sources produce fully correct persisted network state — operationally safe, semantically uniform, and consistent across all graph configurations — only when propagation handles dangling dependents without crashing and the derive pipeline's agent-count bug does not skew budget allocation.

Summary

This claim asserts that every way of changing the network — whether a human challenges a premise, an LLM derives something new, or an external agent imports beliefs — ultimately produces the same correct, consistent result. However, it qualifies that guarantee on two known issues being non-factors: propagation must not crash when it encounters orphaned dependencies, and a bug in how the derive pipeline counts agents must not distort how processing budget gets divided up. Because this belief is currently retracted, at least one of those conditions or upstream assumptions does not hold, meaning the system cannot yet guarantee uniform correctness across all mutation sources.

Justifications

SL — The combined safety+uniformity guarantee is defeated by either a propagation crash from dangling dependents or incorrect LLM budget allocation from the agent count bug

Antecedents (all must be IN):

  • all-belief-modification-paths-are-operationally-safe — Both human-initiated belief modifications (dialectical challenge/defend with irreversible premise transformation) and machine-generated belief modifications (LLM derivation with fail-soft validation, agent import with namespace containment) are operationally safe through independent but compositionally compatible safety mechanisms.
  • multi-agent-revision-is-semantically-uniform — Multi-agent operation does not carve out exceptions to the universal revision semantics — agent beliefs undergo the same uniform revision (outlist defeat, contradiction backtracking, edge-case handling) as local beliefs because agent namespacing and relay pairs operate above the evaluation layer, not within it.

Unless (any of these IN defeats this justification):

  • propagate-assumes-dependents-exist — Every ID in `node.dependents` is accessed via `self.nodes[dep_id]` without a membership check; a dangling dependent reference will raise `KeyError` — this is intentional (broken invariant = bug)
  • derive-agent-count-bug — `_build_beliefs_section` has a bug: `count += len(belief_ids)` is inside the per-belief loop instead of outside it, inflating the count and shrinking the non-agent budget below intended size

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