Status: IN
The codebase's forward-only philosophy combines no-regression state ratchets (monotonic cursors, irreversible window finalization) with failure-tolerant pipelines that continue independent branches on failure, ensuring useful progress is never lost and partial failure never triggers backtracking.
State ratchets and forward-progress pipelines are complementary mechanisms — ratchets prevent regression in stateful systems, pipelines prevent regression in dataflow systems
Depends on (SL): state-ratchets-prevent-regression-across-domains, pipeline-processing-maximizes-forward-progress