Infrastructure · Primitives

StateTransition

Explicit finite-state machine governance

Definition

Mechanism

Finite State Machine. A Transition is defined as T: S x Event -> S. Only valid transitions allowed. Current State determines available actions.

Only declared transitions are permitted; an event with no transition from the current State is refused, not improvised.
The available actions are a function of the current State alone.

Risks

Undeclared event
an event arrives that the machine has no transition for, and a caller treats the refusal as a failure of the event rather than of the model.
Unreachable state
a state is declared with no transition leading to it.

Relationships

References

System condition at time T

State change

References

Society

Geometric neighbor consensus

Verifying system state after an operation

Composes with

Formal state machine governing task progression

Reference

Ref

StateTransition#bdc0

Sema ID

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Ring

Tier

Updated

2026-11-11

Supersedes

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