agent-cascades-are-isolated-by-namespace
IN premise
Retracting one agent's active premise does not affect other agents' beliefs, because each agent's imported beliefs reference only their own `inactive` node in their outlist
Summary
When one agent withdraws a claim, the retraction ripple only travels through that agent's own belief network. Other agents are shielded because their dependency chains point to their own namespace, not to shared nodes — so one agent changing its mind never accidentally knocks out conclusions that a different agent is relying on.
Dependents
These beliefs depend on this one:
- agent-isolation-through-namespace-and-relay — Agent beliefs are doubly isolated: namespace prefixing prevents ID collisions, while the active/inactive relay pair provides per-agent kill-switch semantics without cross-agent interference
Details
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