# Validation Gate

> After each critical stage, evaluate declared success criteria, block downstream progression when critical criteria fail, and carry warning-state forward when noncritical criteria fail.

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

Listed in [Algorithm contracts](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/algorithms.md), after [Evidence-Gated Claim Verification](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/evidence-gated-claim-verification.md) and before [File Modification Recovery](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/file-modification-recovery.md).

## Domain

- [Context verification](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms-domain/context-verification.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)

## Composed by

- [<Workflow Orchestration Concern>](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/workflow-orchestration-concern.md)
- [Contract-Based Verification Kernel](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/contract-based-verification-kernel.md)
- [<Context Verification Concern>](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/context-verification-concern.md)
- [Phase Close Gate](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/phase-close-gate.md)

## Grounds

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

## Named in the derivation of

- [Contract-Based Verification Kernel](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/contract-based-verification-kernel.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)

## Linked from

- [Agent workflow](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/algorithms/algorithms-domain-agent-workflow.md)
- [Context verification](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/algorithms/algorithms-domain-context-verification.md)
- [Governed plan loop](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/algorithms/algorithms-domain-governed-plan-loop.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)