# User-Visible Ordering Guarantees

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

Record: `lexicon: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#lexicon-user-visible-ordering-guarantees

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Latency/Availability](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/latency-availability.md) and before [Causal Reasoning](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/causal-reasoning.md).

## Category

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

## Enabled by

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

## Linked from

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