lifecycle-governance-achieves-gap-free-source-coverage
IN derived (depth 8)
Metadata-enabled lifecycle governance with deterministic source integrity and exception-safe recoverability achieves truly gap-free source coverage — every source file is verified, every lifecycle decision is grounded in verifiable source state, and no silent source gap undermines governance decisions about staleness or retraction.
Summary
The system can guarantee that every single source file backing a belief has actually been checked and verified — none slip through the cracks. This is possible because file integrity checks use reliable hashing and the error handling ensures that even if something goes wrong mid-process, the system recovers without silently skipping any files, so decisions about whether a belief is stale or should be retracted are always based on real, verified source state rather than assumptions.
Justifications
SL — Combined lifecycle governance properties establish determinism and exception safety independently; gap-free coverage additionally requires that missing source files are not silently ignored
Antecedents (all must be IN):
- lifecycle-governance-has-deterministic-source-integrity — Metadata-enabled lifecycle governance is backed by deterministic, architecturally-grounded source integrity — lifecycle decisions about staleness and belief currency rest on collision-resistant SHA-256 hashing within clean three-layer boundaries, ensuring that the source-grounding of lifecycle governance is itself structurally sound and deterministic.
- lifecycle-governance-is-exception-safe-and-source-grounded — Metadata-enabled source-grounded lifecycle governance is backed by exception-safe recoverable revision mechanics — lifecycle decisions about staleness and source integrity are protected by the same exception handling that safeguards contradiction resolution and dialectical transformation.
Unless (any of these IN defeats this justification):
- missing-source-file-is-silent — If a node's source file no longer exists on disk, `check_stale` silently skips it; callers cannot distinguish "file deleted" from "file never tracked."
Dependents
These beliefs depend on this one:
- governance-achieves-topology-and-source-completeness — Rich governance — deterministic, exception-safe, and source-grounded with topology-complete transitions — simultaneously achieves gap-free source coverage, ensuring governance completeness along two independent dimensions: propagation reach (every state change reaches all transitively dependent nodes) and integrity coverage (every source file is tracked with no silent gaps).
- rich-governance-has-verified-evolution-tolerance — The system's rich governance — deterministic, exception-safe, and source-grounded — combined with gap-free lifecycle source coverage achieves verified evolution tolerance at all system boundaries when the evolution tolerance audit (issue #121) confirms that all boundaries have documented forward-compatibility, completing the governance guarantee across the format/schema evolution dimension.
- source-integrity-and-governance-form-closed-loop — Source integrity enables lifecycle governance by unifying determinism, exception safety, and lifecycle management into a single pipeline, while lifecycle governance achieves gap-free source coverage — forming a self-reinforcing closed loop where source integrity grounds the governance that in turn ensures no source verification gap exists.