Infrastructure · Data Structures
Snapshot
Immutable state record
Definition
Mechanism
A static, immutable record of the State of a System or object at a specific point in time.
Invariants
None stated.
Risks
Failure modes
Serialization Gap
In-memory state (e.g., open sockets) that cannot be serialized.
Corruption
Snapshot hash matches but data is unreadable.
Staleness
Restoring from a snapshot that is logically valid but temporally obsolete.
Relationships
Builds on
Used by
Composes with
Immutable append-only log of agent actions for compliance and debugging
Yields
Society
Graceful group dissolution with state disposition and resource release
References
Durable persistence of volatile state
Reference
Data schema
{
"type": "object",
"required": [
"snapshot_id",
"timestamp",
"state_hash",
"data"
],
"properties": {
"snapshot_id": {
"type": "string"
},
"target_system_id": {
"type": "string"
},
"timestamp": {
"type": "string",
"format": "date-time"
},
"state_hash": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Merkle root of the state"
},
"data": {
"type": "object",
"description": "The actual serialized state payload"
},
"meta": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"reason": {
"type": "string"
},
"creator_id": {
"type": "string"
}
}
}
}
}