---
slug: "FabricSharding"
name: "FabricSharding"
type: "Protocols"
layer: "Society"
ref: "FabricSharding#96e1"
sema_id: "sema:FabricSharding#mh:SHA-256:96e1a90c65365b0297a3090f67f2fc88422596a6efb4ecb2ad980c3d365d4216"
tags: ["Society","Protocols"]
updated: 2026-11-11
mindscape: "bootstrap"
index_url: https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap.json
url: https://mindscape.world/bootstrap/FabricSharding/
related: ["Parallelize","Shard","State","HolographicShard"]
---

# FabricSharding

Interlocking state threads

Layer: Society · Category: Protocols

## Mechanism

Applies [Shard](https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap/Shard.md) across orthogonal dimensions (e.g., Spatial, Temporal, Semantic). Agents subscribe only to dimensions relevant to their function ('Slices'). It enables massive [Parallelize](https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap/Parallelize.md) by decoupling [State](https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap/State.md) into orthogonal dimensions.

## Invariants

- The dimensions sharded across are orthogonal: a key in one does not determine a key in another.
- An agent subscribes only to the dimensions its function needs.
- Each dimension's domain is orderable or partitionable.

## Failure modes

- Cross-thread coordination latency grows with the number of dimensions a read spans.
- False orthogonality: two dimensions correlate, so partitioning by both buys no parallelism.

## Parameters

- `consistency_level` (Enum, {Eventual, Strong, Causal}): Cross-shard guarantees
- `partition_count` (Integer, [2, 256]): Number of fabric partitions
- `rebalance_threshold` (Float, [0.1, 0.5]): Imbalance triggering reshard

## Builds on

- [Parallelize](https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap/Parallelize.md) (Mind; References)
- [Shard](https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap/Shard.md) (Infrastructure; References)
- [State](https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap/State.md) (Infrastructure; References)

## Used by

- [HolographicShard](https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap/HolographicShard.md) (Mind; References)

## Identity

- Sema ID: `sema:FabricSharding#mh:SHA-256:96e1a90c65365b0297a3090f67f2fc88422596a6efb4ecb2ad980c3d365d4216`
- Ref: `FabricSharding#96e1`
- Supersedes:
  - `sema:FabricSharding#mh:SHA-256:7399195af56d8e2d611c2e3b004b990de8c838788156755bfeba1397080b125b`
  - `sema:FabricSharding#mh:SHA-256:25d27106d786155e3fda6f31260d2a56bd2e936df771d7e5d755a65676f12248`
  - `sema:FabricSharding#mh:SHA-256:c05779de54bf98bf74d926045c5bf864af5002a00aea3012b15553e345c5e9b3`

## Links

- [Pattern page](https://mindscape.world/bootstrap/FabricSharding/)
- [View in the interactive graph](https://mindscape.world/bootstrap/#FabricSharding)
- [JSON](https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap/FabricSharding.json)
- [Index of all patterns](https://mindscape.world/scapes/bootstrap.json)