FLUID-WP-0006 T01, T02, T04, T07. The lifecycle graph is explicit
because the states carry meaning a reader relies on: a hypothesis that
jumped from DRAFT to ACCEPTED would claim evidence it never gathered and
the audit trail would show nothing wrong. Drafting stays cheap and
completeness is checked at READY, which is the claim that an idea is
worth someone's time.
Competition membership is symmetric, so a reader looking at one
hypothesis cannot miss that a rival exists. Losing a competition
supersedes rather than rejects: rejection says the explanation was
wrong, superseded says a better one won, and the distinction matters
when the winner is later refuted.
The experiment controller never touches traffic. Start returns a routing
policy for the router to consume and Stop returns one with no rules, so
interrupting an experiment is a document replacement rather than an
unwind. Allocation must sum to one, or matching traffic would fall
through to the default and quietly contaminate the control arm.
Promotion consults the gate and never bypasses it. A human may promote
against an inconclusive verdict, but only with an acknowledged override
that is recorded as one; outcomes that reduce exposure need no gate at
all, since requiring permission to stop would point a safety property
the wrong way.
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