Cyclic Tiebreak
Kind: anti-pattern
Layer: Execution Core
Record: architecture:cyclic-tiebreak
Severity: discouraged
Scope: duplicate
Formed by: breaking a tie by recency, path order or authorship when no copy derives from another and none is resolved
Canonical: Ontology
A defect in which a tiebreak picks a source among copies none of which is distinguished, turning a correct refusal into a direction no copy supports.
Listed in Architecture principles, after Narrowed Aggregate and before Destructive Closure.