review-achieves-verified-fault-tolerance

OUT derived (depth 2)

The review pipeline's scoped mutation-safe operation combined with uniform fail-safe output achieves verified fault tolerance across all failure modes — batch failures, missing antecedent references, and malformed LLM responses.

Summary

The review pipeline handles every kind of failure gracefully because of two properties working together: it only touches derived beliefs and never auto-retracts without explicit permission, and its output parser treats any malformed or incomplete LLM response as a pass rather than crashing. This means batch errors, bad references, or garbage model output all resolve safely without corrupting the belief network.

Justifications

SL — Verified fault tolerance pending completion of fault tolerance audit

Antecedents (all must be IN):

  • review-pipeline-is-scoped-and-mutation-safe — The belief review pipeline restricts evaluation to derived beliefs only (premises excluded) and gates auto-retraction behind the dry-run flag, ensuring review operations are scope-limited and mutation-safe by default.
  • review-output-is-uniform-and-fail-safe — Review response parsing defaults missing fields to passing, accepts only JSON arrays as valid input, and normalizes every result to a guaranteed six-key schema — producing uniform fail-safe structured output regardless of LLM response quality.

Unless (any of these IN defeats this justification):

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