Infrastructure · Primitives
TriGate
Generic Red/Yellow/Green flow control
Definition
Mechanism
A generic Gate traffic-light enforcement primitive. Wraps a Judge or Condition that returns a trinary status (Red/Yellow/Green) and yields a Decision: Red -> CLOSE (halt execution). Yellow -> DEBT (proceed with the obligation recorded to Ledger). Green -> OPEN (proceed).
Invariants
- Fail-Closed: Red triggers immediate halt.
- Yellow appends a remediation item and records the obligation to Ledger. An unrecorded Yellow is a Green.
Risks
Failure modes
Yellow read as Green
both states proceed, so the obligation exists only in the Ledger.
Debt accumulating unread
the obligation is recorded and nothing consumes it.
Relationships
Builds on
Composes with
Immutable transactional history
References
Yields
Irrevocable selection from a set of options
Used by
References
Mind
Atomic fusion of two unrelated concepts into a novel third
Composes with
Society
Multi-stage filter of increasing strictness: wide high-entropy input to narrow certain output