configuration/algorithm/data/architecture.layer.data.json
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{
"category": "Architectural Clusters",
"tier": "exempt",
"check": {
"by": ["the layer and tension join, which places every principle in a cluster and resolves every tension between clusters"],
"population": "every architecture and lexicon record the membership map places in the cluster",
"freshness": "a verdict stands until the membership map, the topology or a member record changes",
"refusal": "the gate fails on a tension with no resolution, or an override that matches no live edge",
"observation": "none: a cluster is a grouping of principles",
"evidence": "fires-and-accepts: a suite plants a tension between two principles no layer places, and the bundled tensions resolve with no dead override",
"authority": "the membership map and the topology, which a tension's resolution is derived from"
},
"records": [
{
"id": "structural-core",
"principleRef": "single-source-of-truth",
"title": "Structural Core",
"intent": "The architectural rules that preserve structural integrity — a single authoritative source, no shortcuts, no fallbacks, no duplication, no orphaned artifacts.",
"invariant": "Structure stays sound only when every element has one authoritative home and no debt-incurring escape hatch exists.",
"flow": [
"SingleSource",
"NoShortcut",
"NoFallback",
"NoOrphan"
],
"productions": [],
"composes": [],
"force": [],
"meta": true
},
{
"id": "correctness-core",
"principleRef": "fail-fast",
"title": "Correctness Core",
"intent": "The rules ensuring behavioral correctness and validity — no silent failures, no hidden invalidity, feedback acted on, results observed.",
"invariant": "Correctness holds only when every failure is surfaced and every invalid state is unrepresentable.",
"flow": [
"SurfaceFailure",
"RejectInvalid",
"ActOnFeedback"
],
"productions": [],
"composes": [],
"force": [],
"meta": true
},
{
"id": "evolution-principles",
"principleRef": "evolutionary-architecture",
"title": "Evolution Principles",
"intent": "The rules governing how a system changes over time — no backward-compat cruft, no deprecation debt, no legacy retention, no 'for now'.",
"invariant": "The system evolves cleanly only by deleting the superseded rather than accreting compatibility layers.",
"flow": [
"Supersede",
"Delete",
"NoLegacy"
],
"productions": [],
"composes": [],
"force": [],
"meta": true
},
{
"id": "resource-core",
"principleRef": "state-isolation",
"title": "Resource Core",
"intent": "The rules governing resource lifecycle and ownership — bounded lifetime, single ownership, no leaks, no implicit retention.",
"invariant": "Every resource has one owner and a bounded lifetime; nothing is retained implicitly.",
"flow": [
"Acquire",
"Own",
"Bound",
"Release"
],
"productions": [],
"composes": [],
"force": [],
"meta": true
},
{
"id": "execution-core",
"principleRef": "controlled-side-effects",
"title": "Execution Core",
"intent": "The rules governing execution flow — a single observable path, no deferring, no dual-path branching, nothing unobserved.",
"invariant": "Execution follows one observable path; nothing runs unobserved or deferred indefinitely.",
"flow": [
"SinglePath",
"Observe",
"NoDefer"
],
"productions": [],
"composes": [],
"force": [],
"meta": true
},
{
"id": "computation-core",
"principleRef": "determinism",
"title": "Computation Core",
"intent": "The rules governing computation determinism and purity — no mutable shared state, no hidden nondeterminism, reproducible results.",
"invariant": "A computation is reproducible only when it has no hidden mutable or nondeterministic input.",
"flow": [
"Immutable",
"Deterministic",
"Reproducible"
],
"productions": [],
"composes": [],
"force": [],
"meta": true
},
{
"id": "security-core",
"principleRef": "security-by-design",
"title": "Security Core",
"intent": "The rules governing security posture — no hardcoded secrets, validated input, least privilege, no insecure fallbacks.",
"invariant": "The system is secure only when every input is validated and every privilege is least and explicit.",
"flow": [
"ValidateInput",
"LeastPrivilege",
"NoSecretLeak"
],
"productions": [],
"composes": [],
"force": [],
"meta": true
},
{
"id": "performance-core",
"principleRef": "performance-engineering",
"title": "Performance Core",
"intent": "The rules governing performance discipline — measured optimization, planned capacity, no guesswork.",
"invariant": "Performance is improved only by measuring first; no optimization is applied unmeasured.",
"flow": [
"Measure",
"Optimize",
"Verify"
],
"productions": [],
"composes": [],
"force": [],
"meta": true
},
{
"id": "contracts-core",
"principleRef": "explicit-contracts",
"title": "Contracts Core",
"intent": "The rules governing interfaces and contracts — explicit typed boundaries, versioned change, no implicit or breaking contracts.",
"invariant": "A boundary is safe only when its contract is explicit, typed, and versioned.",
"flow": [
"ExplicitContract",
"TypedBoundary",
"VersionChange"
],
"productions": [],
"composes": [],
"force": [],
"meta": true
},
{
"id": "causality-core",
"principleRef": "causality",
"title": "Causality Core",
"intent": "The rules governing causal ordering and time — logical ordering, retractable state, no wall-clock dependence.",
"invariant": "Order is well-defined only through logical causality, never wall-clock assumptions.",
"flow": [
"LogicalOrder",
"Retract",
"NoWallClock"
],
"productions": [],
"composes": [],
"force": [],
"meta": true
},
{
"id": "declarative-core",
"principleRef": "declarative-configuration",
"title": "Declarative Core",
"intent": "The rules favoring declarative over imperative — declared configuration, separated concerns, no imperative wiring.",
"invariant": "Behavior is declared as data, not encoded imperatively.",
"flow": [
"Declare",
"Separate",
"NoImperativeConfig"
],
"productions": [],
"composes": [],
"force": [],
"meta": true
},
{
"id": "extensibility-core",
"principleRef": "open-closed",
"title": "Extensibility Core",
"intent": "The rules governing extension — declarative discovered wiring over hardcoded, no imperative hardcoded registration.",
"invariant": "The system extends without modification only when wiring is declarative and discovered, not hardcoded.",
"flow": [
"DeclareWiring",
"Discover",
"Extend"
],
"productions": [],
"composes": [],
"force": [],
"meta": true
},
{
"id": "observability",
"principleRef": "observability",
"title": "Observability",
"intent": "The rules ensuring a system is observable — emitted metrics and signals, no unobserved execution, no opaque runtime.",
"invariant": "A system is operable only when its behavior is observable through emitted signals.",
"flow": [
"Emit",
"Trace",
"NoOpaque"
],
"productions": [],
"composes": [],
"force": [],
"meta": true
},
{
"id": "enforcement-core",
"principleRef": "fitness-functions",
"title": "Enforcement Core",
"intent": "The rules ensuring discipline is enforced programmatically — automated gates over convention, no discipline-only reliance.",
"invariant": "A rule holds only when a gate enforces it; a rule kept by convention alone drifts.",
"flow": [
"Gate",
"Automate",
"NoConventionOnly"
],
"productions": [],
"composes": [],
"force": [],
"meta": true
},
{
"id": "atomic-boundary",
"principleRef": "atomicity",
"canon": ["atomic-boundary"],
"title": "Atomic Boundary",
"intent": "The rules governing atomicity — a transactional boundary that fully commits or fully rolls back, no partial commit, no deferring within.",
"invariant": "A boundary either fully commits or fully rolls back; no partial state escapes.",
"flow": [
"Begin",
"AllOrNothing",
"Commit"
],
"productions": [],
"composes": [],
"force": [],
"meta": true
},
{
"id": "human-factors",
"principleRef": "principle-of-least-surprise",
"title": "Human Factors",
"intent": "The rules governing human ergonomics — bounded cognitive complexity, acted-on feedback, explicit approval, no unlimited options.",
"invariant": "A system is usable only when its cognitive load is bounded and its decisions are approved and reversible.",
"flow": [
"BoundComplexity",
"Approve",
"ActOnFeedback"
],
"productions": [],
"composes": [],
"force": [],
"meta": true
},
{
"id": "domain-modeling",
"principleRef": "bounded-context",
"title": "Domain Modeling",
"intent": "The rules governing domain boundaries — bounded contexts, ubiquitous language, no leaky context.",
"invariant": "A domain model stays coherent only when its context boundaries do not leak.",
"flow": [
"BoundContext",
"NoLeak",
"UbiquitousLanguage"
],
"productions": [],
"composes": [],
"force": [],
"meta": true
},
{
"id": "design-patterns-core",
"principleRef": "first-principles-design",
"title": "Design Patterns Core",
"intent": "The rules governing design-pattern use — patterns applied only to demonstrated recurrence, no speculative pattern application.",
"invariant": "A pattern is warranted only by demonstrated recurrence, never speculation.",
"flow": [
"ObserveRecurrence",
"ApplyPattern",
"NoSpeculation"
],
"productions": [],
"composes": [],
"force": [],
"meta": true
},
{
"id": "state-pattern",
"title": "State Pattern",
"principleRef": "state-pattern",
"exemplar": {
"before": "State-dependent behavior scattered as if/else conditionals on a status flag.",
"after": "define state objects → delegate behavior to the current-state object → transition replaces the conditional branching",
"lang": "flow",
"medium": "composite"
},
"intent": "The State design pattern — encapsulate state-dependent behavior in distinct state objects so transitions replace conditional branching.",
"invariant": "State-dependent behavior is expressed by delegating to a current-state object, not by scattered conditionals.",
"flow": [
"DefineStates",
"DelegateBehavior",
"Transition"
],
"productions": [],
"composes": [],
"force": [],
"meta": false
},
{
"id": "separation-of-concerns",
"canon": ["separation-of-concerns"],
"title": "Separation of Concerns",
"exemplar": {
"before": "One module mixes parsing, persistence, and rendering — a change in one ripples through all.",
"after": "identify concerns → separate each into one place → each concern changes independently",
"lang": "flow",
"medium": "composite"
},
"intent": "The principle of separating a system into distinct concerns so each is addressed and changed independently.",
"invariant": "Each concern is localized to one place and changes independently of the others.",
"flow": [
"IdentifyConcerns",
"Separate",
"IsolateChange"
],
"productions": [],
"composes": [],
"force": [],
"meta": false
},
{
"id": "concurrency-correctness",
"title": "Concurrency Correctness",
"exemplar": {
"before": "Concurrent access with a data race; some interleaving violates the invariant.",
"after": "model interleavings → prevent races → verify every interleaving preserves the invariants",
"lang": "flow",
"medium": "composite"
},
"intent": "The rules ensuring correct concurrent behavior — no data races, well-defined interleavings, verified with models such as Petri nets.",
"invariant": "Concurrent correctness holds only when every interleaving preserves the invariants.",
"flow": [
"ModelInterleavings",
"PreventRaces",
"Verify"
],
"productions": [],
"composes": [],
"force": [],
"meta": false
},
{
"id": "capacity-planning",
"title": "Capacity Planning",
"exemplar": {
"before": "Capacity guessed, then saturates under production load.",
"after": "model load → forecast demand → provision from measured/modeled load, not a guess",
"lang": "flow",
"medium": "composite"
},
"intent": "The activity of forecasting resource demand and provisioning capacity to meet it, informed by queuing theory.",
"invariant": "Capacity meets demand only when provisioning is derived from measured or modeled load, not guessed.",
"flow": [
"ModelLoad",
"Forecast",
"Provision"
],
"productions": [],
"composes": [],
"force": [],
"meta": false
}
]
}