{
  "handle": "Brakegrow",
  "gloss": "Progress that also sharpens the signs that going further in the same direction would do harm",
  "mechanism": "Each step of progress in a direction also records what it revealed about that direction's limits: an observable sign that further steps would do harm, kept as a {{risk}} trigger. A direction counts as brakegrow progress only while each step adds or sharpens such a sign, and it is reviewed when any recorded sign appears.",
  "invariants": [
    "Each step adds a harm sign for the direction or sharpens an existing one.",
    "Every recorded sign is observable during the work.",
    "When a recorded sign appears, the direction is reviewed before the next step."
  ],
  "failure_modes": [
    "Momentum blindness: steps continue while no harm sign is recorded.",
    "Alarm inflation: vague signs are recorded that could never fire."
  ],
  "_meta": {
    "path": [
      "Mind",
      "Strategy"
    ],
    "ring": 2,
    "tier": 2,
    "related": [
      "MarginalValueRule#3499",
      "OptimalStop#975a"
    ],
    "minted": "2026-10-05T21:30:54+02:00"
  },
  "sema_id": "sema:Brakegrow#mh:SHA-256:2b56da17a8f8cc38a9a2f80c45c71acd6a38ea9f35745c1a1e14fedc37c4e876",
  "sema_ref": "Brakegrow#2b56",
  "sema_stub": "2b56",
  "dependencies": {
    "references": {
      "risk": "sema:Risk#mh:SHA-256:e7f601ff0058d606ea87ab5f196f78f469a3133f8324617ff8a25d8072422e91"
    }
  },
  "sema_layer": "Mind",
  "sema_category": "Strategy",
  "used_by": {}
}