metadata-governance-flows-through-safe-topology
IN derived (depth 5)
Metadata-carried lifecycle state (retraction flags, stale reasons, access tags) actively governs truth propagation that is itself topology-complete and inconsistency-safe — lifecycle decisions propagate through all transitive dependencies including outlist-connected paths, even in the presence of dangling references, without runtime errors.
Summary
When the system marks a node as retracted or stale, that decision ripples correctly through every downstream dependency in the network, no matter how tangled the graph is. Even if some references point to nodes that no longer exist, the propagation keeps working and never crashes — it just warns and moves on.
Justifications
SL — Active metadata governance combined with inconsistency-safe topology-complete propagation
Antecedents (all must be IN):
- metadata-actively-governs-truth-propagation — Lifecycle state carried in node metadata (retraction flags, stale reasons) is not passive storage but actively governs truth propagation behavior — retracted nodes are skipped during BFS traversal and trigger nodes are never recomputed — ensuring that the universal extension mechanism directly controls truth maintenance rather than merely recording state
- propagation-is-topology-complete-and-inconsistency-safe — Truth propagation is both topologically complete — reaching all transitively dependent nodes including those connected through outlist entries, not just antecedent references — and safe under graph inconsistency, skipping dangling dependent references with structured warnings rather than crashing, ensuring correct cascading even in networks with imperfect structural integrity such as nodes deleted without full reference cleanup.