SYSTEM STATE
LearningHuman ReviewedFounder Controlled
RECOVERY CONTROL
The system should not simply come back online. It should come back wiser.
Resilience Recovery Gate prevents TheoB from restarting broken flows blindly. Recovery must preserve context, use fallback paths, require review, and reactivate slowly.
Review Required · signal
Source Failure83% recovery readinessRestore only after health score, activation gate, and source review pass.
✓ Failure DefinedSource Failure
✓ Risk DefinedSignal gaps, false confidence, stale dashboards, or bad downstream decisions.
✓ Fallback PathPause source, use mock/safe fallback, mark stale, route to source health review.
✓ Recovery PathRestore only after health score, activation gate, and source review pass.
✓ Categorysignal
• Human Reviewrequired before full reactivation
Review Required · automation
Agent Error83% recovery readinessRestore scope only after reputation/trust review and handoff audit.
✓ Failure DefinedAgent Error
✓ Risk DefinedBad actions, trust damage, authority creep, or memory pollution.
✓ Fallback PathReduce agent to draft-only mode, require human review, log incident.
✓ Recovery PathRestore scope only after reputation/trust review and handoff audit.
✓ Categoryautomation
• Human Reviewrequired before full reactivation
Review Required · capacity
Overload83% recovery readinessIncrease capacity gradually after cost, queue, and quality checks.
✓ Failure DefinedOverload
✓ Risk DefinedSystem confusion, cost spikes, degraded UX, missed review, or rushed decisions.
✓ Fallback PathSlow polling, pause ingestion, shrink scope, reduce UI complexity.
✓ Recovery PathIncrease capacity gradually after cost, queue, and quality checks.
✓ Categorycapacity
• Human Reviewrequired before full reactivation
Review Required · knowledge
Contradiction83% recovery readinessResolve through source proximity, review, correction history, and confidence scoring.
✓ Failure DefinedContradiction
✓ Risk DefinedFalse certainty, public confusion, corrupted memory, or biased conclusions.
✓ Fallback PathLabel uncertainty, route to comparison, block durable memory.
✓ Recovery PathResolve through source proximity, review, correction history, and confidence scoring.
✓ Categoryknowledge
• Human Reviewrequired before full reactivation
Review Required · incentive
Economic Pressure83% recovery readinessResume only if economic integrity gate and founder review pass.
✓ Failure DefinedEconomic Pressure
✓ Risk DefinedCapture, corruption, public trust loss, or sacred value extraction.
✓ Fallback PathFreeze influence pathway, separate money from conclusion, require integrity review.
✓ Recovery PathResume only if economic integrity gate and founder review pass.
✓ Categoryincentive
• Human Reviewrequired before full reactivation
Review Required · memory
Memory Pollution83% recovery readinessRestore only with preservation gate, source linkage, and correction trail.
✓ Failure DefinedMemory Pollution
✓ Risk DefinedBad future reasoning, privacy issues, historical distortion, or agent confusion.
✓ Fallback PathDemote memory, quarantine record, flag for correction, reduce persistence.
✓ Recovery PathRestore only with preservation gate, source linkage, and correction trail.
✓ Categorymemory
• Human Reviewrequired before full reactivation
RECOVERY RULES
Recovery is not reset. Recovery is learning under control.
Recovery requires fallback, review, and a clear reactivation condition.
Failed systems should restart slower than they failed.
Contradictions recover through confidence, not force.
Agent recovery requires scope reduction before scope expansion.
Economic-pressure recovery requires integrity review.
Memory-pollution recovery requires correction, demotion, or deletion.