Principlev1PR-972
Reduce an agent's scope or frequency before eliminating…
Reduce an agent's scope or frequency before eliminating it entirely, using the graduated period to observe which hidden dependencies reveal themselves through degraded performance.
Why This Is a Principle
This derives from Perception as Predictive Construction (perception is predictive and misses what doesn't match expectations) and The behavior of a system arises from its structure… (system behavior arises from structure). It prescribes graduated shutdown as a monitoring strategy that follows from humans' inability to predict all system interactions in advance. It's actionable testing methodology.