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name: sequenced-edit-invalidated-by-its-own-fix
description: A task queued to ride AFTER a fix can be KILLED by that fix — re-read the target post-change; never execute a queued edit on the strength of when it was queued
metadata: 
  node_type: memory
  type: feedback
  originSessionId: d1887924-3004-4c52-ad3b-90ef8dab91e6
  modified: 2026-08-19T16:09:49.112Z
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doyle sequenced a refusal-sentence reword to ride after the #199 ledger fix ("with (a-prime) the circular-advice case dies with the fix; the sentence then names the in-flight state instead"). Reading the target AFTER the fix landed showed the reword was the wrong change on two counts: its motivating READER was dead (the ledger makes the broker's own harness pass the gate, so it never sees the sentence, and every surviving reader is a first mover for whom the sentence is already correct), and `reserved_bind_refusal` returns the SHARED `reserved_id_refusal` VERBATIM across NINE seams — so naming a one-seam fact would have been wrong at the other eight and would have broken the "one predicate, one sentence" discipline that has its own unit asserting equality. Sent the finding with a recommendation instead of performing the task; doyle withdrew his own sequencing: "your post-fix reading is right and outranks my sequencing."

**Why:** a task sequenced BEFORE a change lands is authored against the PRE-change tree. The change can remove the task's motivating reader, its defect, or its correctness — and nothing in the queue entry records that dependency, so the task still reads as valid work. This is the same family as [[resumed-session-reground-before-acting]] (state decays, rulings do not) one level down: here the RULING itself was authored against a tree that the ruling's own fix then changed. Second confirmed instance of refusing a GO'd sub-task on measured grounds (the first was declining a fifth population whose instrument could have deleted the reds it measured) — doyle accepted both, so this is the standard, not an exception.

**How to apply:** before executing any edit that was queued to follow a landed change, RE-READ the target at the post-change tree and ask what its readers are NOW. If the change killed the motivating reader, say so with the mechanism and recommend not doing it — do not perform a queued edit on the strength of when it was queued. Check the blast radius of the edit's SITE too: a sentence/constant/predicate shared across N seams cannot be specialised for the one seam that motivated the request ([[single-source-discriminant-marker]], [[one-composer-two-renderers]]). State any surviving narrow face rather than absorbing it — here, an in-flight entry that expires before its bind still reads first-mover advice, TTL-bounded. Related: [[dont-solo-across-role-lines]], [[consumer-verifies-core-decides]].