{
  "handle": "Disputelift",
  "gloss": "A disagreement that leaves the parties disagreeing better, whether or not it is resolved",
  "mechanism": "When a disagreement ends or pauses, the parties record what changed in the {{protocol}} they disagree under: a test both now accept, a term both now define the same way, a question both agree would settle the matter, or a move both agree not to make. The disagreement is a disputelift when every party adopts at least one such change. The original issue is recorded as resolved or as open, and either outcome is allowed.",
  "invariants": [
    "Every party adopts the recorded change, not only the party that proposed it.",
    "The change concerns how the parties disagree, not which side of the issue is right.",
    "The original issue is recorded as resolved or open."
  ],
  "failure_modes": [
    "Concession dressed as method: one side giving way on the issue is recorded as a change in how they disagree.",
    "Procedural theatre: the recorded change is not used the next time the parties disagree.",
    "Issue abandonment: improving the method becomes a way to stop engaging with the issue."
  ],
  "_meta": {
    "path": [
      "Society",
      "Protocols"
    ],
    "ring": 2,
    "tier": 2,
    "related": [
      "DissentSeek#cbe1",
      "SteelmanCheck#b004",
      "Consensus#b9a5"
    ],
    "minted": "2026-10-05T20:03:20+02:00"
  },
  "sema_id": "sema:Disputelift#mh:SHA-256:b5151ae3762b5071110d6ae827728e84549e8ce5bbd77740cf5d34d792ea2aef",
  "sema_ref": "Disputelift#b515",
  "sema_stub": "b515",
  "dependencies": {
    "references": {
      "protocol": "sema:Protocol#mh:SHA-256:f583ad96f598ecf0c9068f5c1390bdf247d2eb67bd7a14c7ce615c357b957b46"
    }
  },
  "sema_layer": "Society",
  "sema_category": "Protocols",
  "used_by": {}
}