Mind · Strategy
MintWhenFriction
Mint only after use creates recorded friction
Definition
Mechanism
A decision procedure that permits minting only in response to recorded friction from actual use or coordination. The caller declares what observations count as friction and the sufficiency rule before evaluation. Invoke PatternDiscovery to gate prior art, evaluate the evidence under that rule, then invoke Gate to return a proceed or halt Decision. Anticipated future usefulness alone does not qualify.
Preconditions
- Proposed pattern mechanism and boundary, registry scope, and discovery method available.
- Recorded friction evidence, evidence type, and sufficiency rule available.
Postconditions
- Minting Decision and evaluated evidence returned.
Invariants
- Prior Art: PatternDiscovery must yield proceed before this gate yields proceed.
- Grounded Demand: Every approval cites friction observed before the proposal.
- Declared Rule: The evidence type and sufficiency rule are fixed before the minting decision.
Risks
Failure modes
Speculative Mint
Approval relies on anticipated usefulness rather than recorded friction.
Registry Bloat
Flooding the namespace with low-value patterns makes discovery harder.
Definition Drift
Minting a concept before it has stabilized leads to frequent version churning.
Relationships
Builds on
Composes with
Infrastructure
Filter payload if the target condition is not met
Prior-art gate for adding patterns
Yields
Infrastructure
Irrevocable selection from a set of options
Nothing in this library builds on this pattern yet.