issue-126-reference-validation-audit
IN premise
Issue #126: Audit all node ID reference boundaries for validation — three specific boundaries do not establish coverage of every boundary
Summary
The audit of node ID reference validation found gaps — three specific boundaries in the system lack proper validation coverage. This means there are places where invalid or malformed node references could slip through unchecked, potentially causing silent data corruption or unexpected behavior in the truth maintenance network.
Dependents
These beliefs depend on this one:
- governance-and-dialectics-have-verified-references — Complete governance across topology, source, and traceability with dually-grounded dialectical operations achieves verified reference integrity at all node ID boundaries — governance completeness and dialectical assurance are not only independently established but reference-verified.
- governance-topology-is-reference-verified — Rich governance's topology-complete transitions and metadata-governed bidirectional modifications have fully verified reference integrity at all system boundaries — no node ID reference bypasses validation at any boundary — when the reference validation audit confirms coverage at the three identified boundary gaps (issue #126).
- reference-validation-is-defense-in-depth — Every system boundary that accepts node ID references validates them against the actual network: import normalization drops unknown antecedent/outlist refs, nogood recording skips invalid node IDs, and LLM-returned negative-list IDs are filtered against existing nodes.
- verified-revision-completeness-at-all-reference-boundaries — The deterministic lifecycle-complete architecture achieves verified uniform revision completeness — every belief case handled uniformly within predictable monitored state trajectories AND every node ID reference crossing a system boundary validated against the actual network — eliminating the possibility of revision operations acting on phantom references.