# configuration/reason/data/invariant.data.json

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Tree: GovLab Context
Language: json
Layer: domain
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/anatomy/context#file-context-configuration-reason-data-invariant-data-json
Source text: https://banes-lab.com/source/context/configuration/reason/data/invariant.data.json.txt

Listed in [configuration/reason/data](https://banes-lab.com/api/source/context/configuration/reason/data.md), after [configuration/reason/data/index.data.json](https://banes-lab.com/source/context/configuration/reason/data/index.data.json.md) and before [configuration/reason/data/layer.data.json](https://banes-lab.com/source/context/configuration/reason/data/layer.data.json.md).

## Contained in

- [configuration/reason/data](https://banes-lab.com/anatomy/context/folder-context-configuration-reason-data.md)

## Source

```json
{
    "check": {
        "by": [
            "the test surfaces that assert the invariant, through the techniques each surface lists",
            "the structured-document validator, for each epistemic invariant the grammar's constructs ground"
        ],
        "population": "every test surface and document construct that names the invariant",
        "freshness": "a verdict stands until the invariant, a surface that asserts it or a construct that grounds it changes",
        "refusal": "the gate fails on a surface that names an unknown invariant, and the document validator fails a gate that omits a grounded clause",
        "observation": "the runtime techniques among the surfaces that assert the invariant, which locate a violation without certifying its absence",
        "evidence": "fires-and-accepts: one suite plants a surface that names an unknown invariant, another plants an invariant record with no clauses, and the bundled data validates clean",
        "authority": "the invariant record, which every surface and document construct that asserts it cites"
    },
    "records": [
        {"id": "correct-outputs",
            "name": "Correct Outputs",
            "statement": "Outputs are correct"},
        {"id": "correct-state-evolution",
            "name": "Correct State Evolution",
            "statement": "State evolves correctly"},
        {
            "id": "valid-state-transitions",
            "name": "Valid State Transitions",
            "statement": "State transitions are valid"
        },
        {
            "id": "correct-interactions",
            "name": "Correct Interactions",
            "statement": "Interactions between components are correct"
        },
        {
            "id": "valid-interfaces-and-contracts",
            "name": "Valid Interfaces and Contracts",
            "statement": "Interfaces and contracts are valid"
        },
        {
            "id": "acceptable-execution-time",
            "name": "Acceptable Execution Time",
            "statement": "Execution time is acceptable"
        },
        {
            "id": "acceptable-resource-consumption",
            "name": "Acceptable Resource Consumption",
            "statement": "Resource consumption is acceptable"
        },
        {
            "id": "safe-concurrent-behavior",
            "name": "Safe Concurrent Behavior",
            "statement": "Concurrent behavior is safe"
        },
        {
            "id": "controlled-memory-usage",
            "name": "Controlled Memory Usage",
            "statement": "Memory usage is controlled"
        },
        {
            "id": "reliability-under-faults",
            "name": "Reliability Under Faults",
            "statement": "The system stays reliable under faults"
        },
        {
            "id": "availability-under-stress",
            "name": "Availability Under Stress",
            "statement": "The system stays available under stress"
        },
        {
            "id": "consistency-across-components",
            "name": "Consistency Across Components",
            "statement": "Components stay consistent with each other"
        },
        {
            "id": "deterministic-behavior-where-required",
            "name": "Required Determinism",
            "statement": "Behavior is deterministic where determinism is required"
        },
        {"id": "numerical-validity",
            "name": "Numerical Validity",
            "statement": "Numerical results are valid"},
        {"id": "security-boundaries",
            "name": "Security Boundaries",
            "statement": "Security boundaries hold"},
        {
            "id": "protocol-compliance",
            "name": "Protocol Compliance",
            "statement": "Communication complies with its protocol"
        },
        {"id": "configuration-validity",
            "name": "Configuration Validity",
            "statement": "Configuration is valid"},
        {
            "id": "accurate-observability",
            "name": "Accurate Observability",
            "statement": "Logs, metrics and traces report the system accurately"
        },
        {
            "id": "epi-reachable-check",
            "name": "Reachable Check",
            "statement": "Every representation in jurisdiction has a computable check"
        },
        {
            "id": "epi-declared-domain",
            "name": "Declared Domain",
            "statement": "A check's domain is explicit and reported beside its verdict"
        },
        {
            "id": "epi-declared-dependency",
            "name": "Declared Dependency",
            "statement": "A dependency is declared by the referent, never inferred from a name"
        },
        {
            "id": "epi-verdict-is-representation",
            "name": "Checked Verdict",
            "statement": "A verdict is itself a representation and has a reachable check of its own"
        },
        {
            "id": "epi-preserved-distinction",
            "name": "Preserved Distinction",
            "statement": "A lowering keeps every distinction a later check needs"
        },
        {
            "id": "epi-fresh-read",
            "name": "Fresh Read",
            "statement": "A check reads a representation derived after the last relevant mutator"
        },
        {
            "id": "epi-one-derivation",
            "name": "One Derivation",
            "statement": "One canonical question has one authoritative derivation"
        },
        {
            "id": "epi-weakest-link",
            "name": "Weakest Link",
            "statement": "A chain is as certain as its least certain link, and a link below the floor is removed from the chain"
        },
        {
            "id": "epi-observation-locates",
            "name": "Observation Scope",
            "statement": "Dynamic observation locates a failure and never certifies absence"
        },
        {
            "id": "epi-terminate-on-three",
            "name": "Three-Condition Stop",
            "statement": "A run stops when saturation, completion and verification all hold, or when it is blocked on something outside it"
        }
    ]
}
```