Status: IN
Forward-only design and unconditional state monotonicity jointly bound read-path risk through complementary mechanisms: forward-only prevents temporal regression from creating new convergence obligations, while monotonic growth ensures the read path's active convergence always targets a larger consistent state — together limiting the unbounded verification burden that would otherwise grow with system complexity.
two independent structural guarantees (no regression + only growth) jointly close the read path's open-ended risk
Depends on (SL): forward-only-compensates-for-read-path-verification-gap, state-growth-is-unconditionally-monotonic