Bounded Nesting Depth

Kind: constraint

Layer: Structural Core

Record: architecture:bounded-nesting-depth

Severity: mandatory

Scope: folder, root

Canonical: Ontology

A rule or precondition that a file sits within a fixed number of folders below its governed root, with each folder taking a later role than the one above it.

Listed in Architecture principles, after Declared Jurisdiction and before Sideways Overflow.

Requires

• Depth Cap
• Ordered Role Sequence

Reinforces

• Placement Predictability

Enables

• Sideways Overflow

Conflicts with

• Downward Nesting

In tension with

• Tree Compactness

Tensions

• Bounded Nesting Depth / Tree Compactness

Contracts

• Path Role Walk

Violated by

• Downward Nesting

Refactored by

• Take the Variant Slot
• Add a Sibling Subject Folder

Severity

• mandatory

Category

• Taxonomy / Classification / Naming

Enforced by

• rules/entrypoints/taxonomy.entrypoint.ts

Enabled by

• Declared Jurisdiction

Linked from

• Placement is a grammar
• The structural domain
• Taxonomy / Classification / Naming
• Taxonomy / Classification / Naming
• Taxonomy
• Severity levels
• The resolutions

in this codebase

• checkPlacement