# User-Visible Ordering Guarantees

> The ability to guarantee that users never observe an effect before its cause.

Record: `lex:user-visible-ordering-guarantees`
Kind: capability
Layer: [Causality Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/causality-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lex-user-visible-ordering-guarantees

## category

- [Causality / Ordering / Distributed Time](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex-category/causality-ordering-distributed-time.md)

## referenced-by

- [Causal Consistency](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/causal-consistency.md)