self-correction-history-is-durably-documented

OUT derived (depth 8)

Every self-correction produces documentation that is both complete (traceable history with consistent artifact identification) and durable (identifiers survive persistence boundaries and format evolution) — the correction history remains addressable and interpretable across sessions and system versions.

Summary

When the system corrects itself — fixing a contradiction or flagging something stale — it creates a record of what happened, and that record can be found and understood later, even after restarts or upgrades. This is currently marked OUT, meaning one or both of its supporting assumptions (that self-corrections are fully self-documenting, or that identifiers remain valid across persistence and evolution) are not holding.

Justifications

SL — Self-documenting corrections (depth-7) and durable references (depth-5) combine into the guarantee that correction history is permanently addressable, not just temporarily traceable

Antecedents (all must be IN):

  • self-correction-is-fully-self-documenting — The system's self-correction is simultaneously exhaustive in scope (spanning creation-time contradiction resolution and maintenance-time staleness detection), self-contained in execution (requiring zero external dependencies), and artifact-producing in operation (every correction generates consistently-identifiable records) — making every self-correction event fully traceable without external logging infrastructure.
  • references-are-durable-across-persistence-and-evolution — All system-generated identifiers survive both persistence boundaries (save/load cycles, cross-session durability via high-water marks) and format evolution boundaries (parser versioning, schema migration, forward-compatible metadata) — references remain valid and resolvable across time and system versions.

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