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  "handle": "Conservation",
  "mechanism": "An invariant quantity preserved under the transformations of a closed system — no process within the system creates or destroys the conserved quantity; transformations only redistribute it. Substrate law: energy is conserved in closed physical systems; probability mass is conserved in stochastic systems; in coordination contexts, a token supply or attention budget that is conserved cannot be counterfeited mid-process. The boundary matters: conservation is defined relative to a closure; crossing the boundary violates the invariant within the enclosed system. Conservation is distinct from an authored budget constraint: budgets are engineered ceilings on consumption, while conservation is the substrate property that the sum-over-the-closed-system is invariant under the system's own dynamics.",
  "gloss": "An invariant quantity preserved under a closed system's transformations — a substrate law",
  "invariants": [
    "Invariance: the conserved quantity's total value is unchanged by any transformation confined to the system.",
    "Closure scope: conservation is defined relative to a boundary; the invariant holds strictly within the enclosed system, not across the boundary.",
    "Redistribution only: transformations can move the quantity between parts of the system, never create or destroy it."
  ],
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      "Primitives"
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