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Sagitta Continuity Engine
Failure doctrine, mode switching, and recovery orchestration.
Sagitta Continuity Engine is the survival authority governing evacuation, substitution, degradation control, and reconstitution under protocol stress or failure.
1. Mandate
The continuity mandate is to preserve depositor protection, solvency discipline, and deterministic settlement across adverse conditions.
Survival is treated as a first-class system function.
2. Continuity Philosophy
Sagitta assumes component failure is possible and designs doctrine for controlled degradation instead of catastrophic breakage.
Continuity decisions follow predefined sequencing, not emergency improvisation.
3. Role Substitution Architecture
- Critical dependencies are abstracted as roles with replacement procedures.
- Failure in one implementation can trigger substitution without systemic redesign.
- Authority boundaries remain intact during substitution.
4. Chain and Infrastructure Agnosticism
Continuity doctrine supports migration across chains, assets, venues, and governance pathways when needed.
Replaceability is constrained by invariant compliance and settlement integrity.
5. Failure Classification and Triggers
- Market and reserve stress thresholds.
- Execution/counterparty breakdown signals.
- Governance compromise indicators.
- Infrastructure and oracle disruption alerts.
6. Continuity States
- Normal operation.
- Protective contraction.
- Evacuation and substitution mode.
- Stabilization and staged reconstitution.
7. Evacuation Doctrine
Evacuation routes capital and authority flows away from compromised components while protecting accounting truth.
Emergency routing preserves reserve supremacy and settlement determinism.
8. Substitution and Migration
- Asset role substitution under impairment.
- Venue migration under execution failure.
- Chain and service substitution under infrastructure disruption.
9. Degradation and Reconstitution
Continuity may intentionally reduce throughput and risk capacity to preserve solvency.
Restoration occurs in stages once explicit recovery thresholds are met.
10. Governance and Doctrine Integrity
- Governance cannot bypass continuity invariants.
- Mode transitions are auditable and rule-bound.
- Recovery expansion remains subordinate to protection constraints.
11. Summary
Sagitta Continuity Engine is the protocol survival framework.
It ensures the system can absorb failure, preserve protection, and recover without abandoning fiduciary doctrine.
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