# Bounded Cascade Termination

> Terminate the verify-remediate cascade on the completion AND-gate — a clean verdict, or bounded progress where findings strictly decrease within the pass bound — escalating when neither holds.

Record: `algorithms:bounded-cascade-termination`
Kind: algorithm
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/algorithms#algorithms-bounded-cascade-termination
Closure: https://banes-lab.com/json/records/algorithms/bounded-cascade-termination/closure

Listed in [Algorithm contracts](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/algorithms.md), after [Machine Verdict Derivation](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/machine-verdict-derivation.md) and before [Quality-Engine Kernel](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/quality-engine-concern.md).

## Domain

- [Quality engine](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms-domain/quality-engine.md)

## Stage

- [terminate](https://banes-lab.com/records/stage/terminate.md)

## Axis

- [termination](https://banes-lab.com/records/reasoning/axis-termination.md)

## Tier

- [process](https://banes-lab.com/records/vocabulary/domain-tier-process.md)

## Grounds

- [ter-stop](https://banes-lab.com/records/reasoning/node-ter-stop.md)

## Named in the derivation of

- [Quality Governance Loop](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/quality-governance-loop.md)

## Math type

- [Optimization](https://banes-lab.com/records/reasoning/math-type-optimization.md)

## Force

- [Correctness verification](https://banes-lab.com/records/force/correctness-verification.md)
- [Resilience recovery](https://banes-lab.com/records/force/resilience-recovery.md)

## Linked from

- [Quality engine](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/algorithms/algorithms-domain-quality-engine.md)
- [The derivation loop](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/reasoning/reasoning-loop-derivation-loop.md)
- [The axes](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/reasoning/the-axes.md)
- [The nodes](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/reasoning/the-nodes.md)
- [The mathematics](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/reasoning/the-mathematics.md)
- [Domain tiers](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-vocabulary-domain-tier.md)
- [The forces](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-forces.md)