# Existing Solution Conflict

> Search existing centralized locations for the same or overlapping pattern, classify whether to reuse, extend, create a distinct target, or cancel, and require the developer's decision when conflict resolution is not mechanically safe.

Record: `algorithms:existing-solution-conflict`
Kind: algorithm
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/algorithms#algorithms-existing-solution-conflict
Closure: https://banes-lab.com/json/records/algorithms/existing-solution-conflict/closure

Listed in [Algorithm contracts](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/algorithms.md), after [Architecture Compliance Targeting](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/architecture-compliance-targeting.md) and before [Migration Action Mapping](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/migration-action-mapping.md).

## Domain

- [Centralization](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms-domain/centralization.md)

## Stage

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

## Axis

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

## Tier

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

## Math type

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

## Force

- [Semantic consistency](https://banes-lab.com/records/force/semantic-consistency.md)

## Linked from

- [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 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)