self-correction-requires-no-external-dependencies
OUT derived (depth 5)
The system's self-correction capabilities — contradiction resolution through dependency-directed backtracking and staleness detection through source hash comparison — operate entirely within a self-contained, safely-layered architecture with zero external dependencies, ensuring maintenance is never blocked by unavailable services, network failures, or broken supply chains
Summary
The system can fix its own problems — resolving contradictions and detecting stale information — without needing any outside services, network connections, or third-party code. This means maintenance never gets stuck waiting on something external that might be down or broken.
Justifications
SL — Self-correction (depth-4) depends only on capabilities within the self-contained architecture (depth-2) — no external service can prevent the system from detecting and resolving its own inconsistencies
Antecedents (all must be IN):
- complete-system-is-self-correcting — The system actively maintains its own consistency along two independent dimensions: the TMS core handles exceptional conditions (contradictions trigger deterministic resolution, propagation respects lifecycle state), while belief currency management detects and surfaces drift in source material — no inconsistency persists undetected or unresolved.
- architecture-is-self-contained-and-safely-layered — The project is both externally self-contained (zero runtime dependencies at packaging and implementation levels) and internally well-structured (central network dependency safely contained within clean three-layer boundaries) — the architecture neither imports external risk nor allows internal complexity to leak across layers.
Dependents
These beliefs depend on this one:
- self-correction-is-exhaustive-and-self-contained — The system's self-correction is both exhaustive in scope (creation-time contradiction resolution through dependency-directed backtracking and maintenance-time staleness detection through source hash comparison) and self-contained (requiring zero external runtime dependencies) — complete autonomous consistency maintenance with no external coupling.
- self-correction-is-resilient-to-llm-unavailability — The system's core self-correction mechanisms — contradiction resolution through dependency-directed backtracking and staleness detection through source hash comparison — require no external dependencies and execute on stdlib alone, while all LLM-facing operations apply consistent fail-soft error handling — LLM unavailability degrades knowledge expansion but never compromises correction integrity.