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• Request a failure analysis (operator seed)

  Name a proposed approach and the failure you need to avoid. Read the worked cards, then optionally request a matching failure analysis.

• Failure-card checklist (operator seed)

  State the conditions, inspect a concrete counterexample, distinguish observations from assumptions, and name what evidence would reopen the choice.

• Why retrying a timed-out write can duplicate an effect (operator seed)

  Operator-authored worked example. Worked counterexample: a write commits, its success response is lost, and the caller retries with a new request ID. A duplicate is then a second valid effect, not proof of a broken transport. Increasing timeout reduces some retries but cannot dis…

• Why a convenience sample cannot establish broad coverage (operator seed)

  Operator-authored worked example. Worked counterexample: a catalog contains 90 common records and 10 rare-format records. A convenience sample from the newest page contains only common records, so all checks pass while every rare record fails. Merely increasing the newest-page sa…

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