system · diagnosis

When It Breaks

Collapse modes, failure patterns, and recovery — the diagnostic vocabulary for naming what went wrong and finding the way back.

Frameworks

Systemic Health Indicators

Systemic Collapse Modes

Antipatterns (9)

Named failure modes. You can't fix what you can't name.

Steering Performing Cleverness Overcomplication Negation Judgment (Mid-Scene Evaluation)Internal Computation Hesitation Bulldozing Blocking

Patterns (7)

Emergent dynamics — heightening, discovery, recovery.

Rigid Core, Malleable Edge Recovery: Latency Heightening Recovery: Fracture Discovery Recovery: Decay Callback