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reviewer_premortem

Scope: Reviewer pre-mortem.
Audience: Reviewers and contributors.
Guarantees: Anticipated critiques are explicit.
Non-Goals: Debate.
Why: This doc exists to record its single responsibility for review.

Overview

This doc lists common review critiques.
Architecture context lives in Architecture.
Claim context lives in Falsifiable Claim.

Contracts

Critique: “This is orchestration.” Response: signal scopes and pathway contracts show locality.
Critique: “No intelligence.” Response: regulator proposals are bounded and measured.
Critique: “Biology metaphor.” Response: constrained agents and pathways are explicit.
Critique: “Over-engineered.” Response: invariants and failures are enforced.
Evidence uses tests/regression/test_architecture_invariants.py.

Invariants

Critique list stays visible.
Responses align with Core.
Evidence aligns with tests/regression/test_architecture_invariants.py.

Failure Modes

Missing critiques weakens review readiness.
Response drift breaks Core.
Missing evidence breaks Docs Style.

Extension Points

Updates follow Docs Style.
Extensions align with Experimental.
Evidence updates align with tests/unit/test_docs_contract.py.

Exit Criteria

This doc is obsolete when critiques are encoded.
The replacement is Metrics.
Obsolete docs are removed.

Code refs: tests/regression/test_architecture_invariants.py.