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title: Failure Boundary
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status: draft
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maturity: hypothesis
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families: [quality, composition]
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scales: [L5, L6]
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admission: research-candidate-only
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---
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# Failure Boundary
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Context: a failing region should not remove unrelated useful work. Continuity
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competes with the cost of partial-state recovery and boundary coordination.
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Proposed solution: define which failures a boundary contains, replace the affected
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region with usable feedback, and give recovery an explicit reset/retry contract.
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Keep required navigation and recoverable intent outside the failing subtree when
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appropriate. If containment itself fails, define the next enclosing recovery path.
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Result: some work can continue; shared state corruption or global runtime failure
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may still cross the boundary. Resetting presentation does not undo remote effects.
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Never replay a write merely because a region remounted. Distinguish expected domain
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rejection and network errors from uncaught rendering faults.
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Evidence: B05 locates React's rendering-error boundary and documented exclusions;
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this proposal does not claim it catches every asynchronous or event-handler error.
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Alternative: fail the entire task when partial continuation would mislead users.
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A fallback is a product state that needs accessible controls, not just logging.
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Proposed relations: [Mutation Outcome Tracking](MutationOutcomeTracking.md) handles
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uncertain writes separately; [Focus Return](FocusReturn.md) applies to modal dismissal,
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not automatically to every error replacement.
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Next test: inject render, event-handler, network and fallback failures separately;
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record which are contained and whether retry duplicates an accepted operation.
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Evidence locators: [breadth review](../reviews/PatternBreadthExpansion.md).
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All relations are research proposals; no canonical identity or admitted graph edges.
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The next test is planned, not executed. Known uses of the complete proposed contract
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have not been verified in this investigation.
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## Executed partial evidence — 2026-09-26
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[Boundary experiment](../reviews/BoundaryRecoveryExperiment.md) X01–X04 runs real
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React 19.3.0 in a browser fixture. A render fault stays inside its region; an event
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handler error does not; a handled 503 uses explicit request state; a broken fallback
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reaches the enclosing boundary. These are bounded mechanism observations, not
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production recurrence or evidence for mutation rollback. Retain hypothesis maturity.
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