frontend-patterns/research/evaluations/language-replication-03/raw/r06/answer.md
tegwick 211f8fc4b2 Retain replication-03 execution outputs: 12/12 completed (FEP-WP-0009-T02)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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  • Operation and Visible State: The system must atomically commit the chosen revision c, the new operation Q, and the non-retryable status of P within a single recoverable transaction. This ensures that P is not reactivated after a restart if the process dies between transactions.

  • Information and Policy Boundaries: The scenario highlights a missing contract regarding the receiver's version and ancestry enforcement. Without this, the system cannot guarantee that an already transmitted P will be correctly handled by the receiver, even if marked non-retryable locally.

  • Recovery Action and Rejected Alternative: The proposed correction prevents P from becoming active again locally after a crash, addressing the risk of re-transmitting a superseded operation. The alternative of marking P non-retryable in a separate transaction is rejected due to the vulnerability to process death.

  • Missing Contract: The absence of a documented contract for the receiver's version/ancestry enforcement means the system cannot rely on the receiver to correctly handle P if it arrives after Q or c, or if it's a stale version. This requires external reconciliation or a defined receiver policy.