{
  "handle": "Break",
  "data_schema": {
    "type": "object",
    "required": [
      "break_id",
      "severity",
      "reason",
      "recoverable"
    ],
    "properties": {
      "break_id": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "Unique identifier for this break event"
      },
      "severity": {
        "type": "string",
        "enum": [
          "transient",
          "permanent",
          "catastrophic"
        ],
        "description": "How serious is the failure"
      },
      "reason": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "Human-readable explanation of the break cause"
      },
      "timestamp": {
        "type": "string",
        "format": "date-time",
        "description": "When the break occurred"
      },
      "recoverable": {
        "type": "boolean",
        "description": "Whether coordination can resume, or must terminate."
      }
    }
  },
  "mechanism": "{{protocol}} for announcing coordination failure. Failing {{agent}} broadcasts BREAK: {severity, reason, recoverable}. Partners must ACK. Coordination across the {{system}} terminates or pauses based on severity. Unacknowledged BREAK escalates to FAILED. It coordinates with retry logic to distinguish transient from permanent failures, optionally triggering ejection seat in catastrophic scenarios.",
  "gloss": "Failure-announcement signal {severity, reason, recoverable}, ACK-required",
  "failure_modes": [
    "BREAK {{message}} itself fails to deliver ({{meta}}-failure).",
    "Partners disagree on recovery action.",
    "Cascading BREAKs overwhelm system.",
    "Inaccurate completed_state leads to wrong compensation.",
    "Timeout too short/long for ACK collection."
  ],
  "invariants": [
    "Partners must ACK the BREAK; an unacknowledged announcement is not delivered coordination state.",
    "Escalates when an ACK does not arrive within `recovery_timeout`, rather than assuming receipt."
  ],
  "preconditions": [
    "Interrupt signal",
    "Running process"
  ],
  "postconditions": [
    "Process halted",
    "Resumption point saved"
  ],
  "parameters": [
    {
      "name": "break_signal",
      "type": "Enum",
      "range": "{Silent, Loud, Cascade}",
      "description": "How break propagates"
    },
    {
      "name": "failure_threshold",
      "type": "Integer",
      "range": "[3, 10]",
      "description": "Consecutive failures before breaking"
    },
    {
      "name": "recovery_timeout",
      "type": "Duration",
      "range": "[10s, 5min]",
      "description": "Cool-off before reconnection attempt"
    }
  ],
  "_meta": {
    "tier": 1,
    "ring": 0,
    "related": [
      "EjectionSeat",
      "Retry"
    ],
    "supersedes": [
      "sema:Break#mh:SHA-256:1a63164e5ff06e60927f3e585fc003abab80eeb4002ccf075e3b53747318fa95",
      "sema:Break#mh:SHA-256:3c370fec3d297e00ea2321826e420a429f65fc5f5da5ac61b844c821aef41018",
      "sema:Break#mh:SHA-256:c4d3f005992445b2307564e2fc00d684500c2b4239a9f06d4a17e302c8b039ff"
    ],
    "path": [
      "Infrastructure",
      "Data Structures"
    ]
  },
  "sema_id": "sema:Break#mh:SHA-256:5003e128ac02e7835d2094d72dc929ce4c96819b56ef167c2ca8da9f16aa402a",
  "sema_ref": "Break#5003",
  "sema_stub": "5003",
  "dependencies": {
    "references": {
      "agent": "sema:Agent#mh:SHA-256:e127459069739fffc96a71d54ef6e8c97ca53471d5349c16aa72a092a33756cd",
      "message": "sema:Message#mh:SHA-256:bf6d3d4643c881a8c245617c3603b13ffef26026304fc7e7c384a80cf25fd237",
      "meta": "sema:Meta#mh:SHA-256:f277723b905f6c94549f27f7eb58597096f3052165f5ad90af8b273188cee079",
      "protocol": "sema:Protocol#mh:SHA-256:f583ad96f598ecf0c9068f5c1390bdf247d2eb67bd7a14c7ce615c357b957b46",
      "system": "sema:System#mh:SHA-256:f8eb318a1113a10fead02fbf14ae433767ac1a69c9579cdb584cc622068e90b3"
    }
  },
  "sema_layer": "Infrastructure",
  "sema_category": "Data Structures",
  "used_by": {
    "references": {
      "Compensate": "sema:Compensate#mh:SHA-256:4b87623f38564fcc95b87d2cbf5df2f5ff41ef27e617ccafd76c7b7896b144e7",
      "Jester": "sema:Jester#mh:SHA-256:1becc880f882693433654cc3572a4bf812d375000f0ae21640e5775a86b74005",
      "RegimeSense": "sema:RegimeSense#mh:SHA-256:50396d316674bf65b204938ee8cecc48cf294223cdb90c9789d6a72bb542cb07",
      "Retry": "sema:Retry#mh:SHA-256:4f9fdfc5b1dafd31221e9426d62c02af80c6356ef5b446eddd3f50da961d1aa2",
      "Vote": "sema:Vote#mh:SHA-256:84935dbc846bcd8fe2da01e9e04401f190769e87d0354e00c0986e43e414f300"
    },
    "composes_with": {
      "Delegate": "sema:Delegate#mh:SHA-256:00fabbb5e33ec9b95dce20eb8c03e6dd3578e59b041dcf0d6a28b8908763ca45",
      "Rollout": "sema:Rollout#mh:SHA-256:ea8c8bdf3303e53d240d6393a776de33ff7c0980a269539d6eb22a8b35e430b4"
    }
  }
}