{
  "handle": "Feedback",
  "mechanism": "Information returned to a system about the effects of its actions, used to adjust future behavior. It closes the loop between output and input, enabling learning and error correction. The feedback {{signal}} contains a {{result}} and a {{metric_reading}} indicating deviation ({{incongruity}}) from the expected outcome.",
  "gloss": "Error correction signal",
  "failure_modes": [
    "Signal Noise: Feedback is too noisy to extract actionable information.",
    "Delayed Feedback: Signal arrives too late to correct the error.",
    "Misattribution: Feedback is routed to the wrong solver."
  ],
  "invariants": [
    "Directionality: indicates the direction of error, not just magnitude.",
    "Attribution: traceable to a specific action.",
    "Names what should change: feedback that identifies an error without indicating an adjustment is a report."
  ],
  "_meta": {
    "tier": 1,
    "ring": 0,
    "supersedes": [
      "sema:Feedback#mh:SHA-256:9b5c7eee86ff79389e6fc9a4cd4e318296ff3e74e3e67514f8193a45be917e15",
      "sema:Feedback#mh:SHA-256:5e6d456e19d4b57377c23d33584271b255557c076b2611c23d23afd1e542eb37",
      "sema:Feedback#mh:SHA-256:af70f56a4143af711facdbbe5f5c75387a45b522708609c988de2ceba4bf4cae"
    ],
    "path": [
      "Infrastructure",
      "Primitives"
    ],
    "related": [
      "Correctionwelcome#25e5",
      "Doubleloop#23ac"
    ]
  },
  "signature": [
    "Signal(Incongruity)"
  ],
  "sema_id": "sema:Feedback#mh:SHA-256:8821fbee51f9b6e495277b161e874a5ba2995bf7ce4fc6e9bc9801798a983c3d",
  "sema_ref": "Feedback#8821",
  "sema_stub": "8821",
  "dependencies": {
    "composes_with": {
      "signal": "sema:Signal#mh:SHA-256:6eaff8a06e08e75279670bc09d88175d130815240fdfb3a21252c0364769c1fc"
    },
    "references": {
      "incongruity": "sema:Incongruity#mh:SHA-256:479ed6c65501ca52ea6149d3e47638291f40158f4e73d8a5c2d71869da4006dc",
      "metric_reading": "sema:MetricReading#mh:SHA-256:56a9f18faad70147312f12c1cdb1bcea9cb5d1d61042831d1fe6bfa11414ab26",
      "result": "sema:Result#mh:SHA-256:c02a8d6817c2f0e14d5a9360824240f135905e8be25fd659feb76d1f44e274c6"
    }
  },
  "sema_layer": "Infrastructure",
  "sema_category": "Primitives",
  "used_by": {
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      "Doubleloop": "sema:Doubleloop#mh:SHA-256:23acb8047086c489b2a8e7eb97c2468278f75b36eb62be16f9bc0844e5ac93c5",
      "FeedbackSignal": "sema:FeedbackSignal#mh:SHA-256:69647a84ed114fda3cc3c10c14161dac2adee6010792b293d20b9c36ec1c6a18",
      "PerformanceSignal": "sema:PerformanceSignal#mh:SHA-256:9dfb41dd2ac3f271ca5d4a3ab67219a5a18aa8dbd970cdb410e7c9c1ec85488c",
      "StructuralCoaching": "sema:StructuralCoaching#mh:SHA-256:4552c90190484bb0ec782a05f03f6259c37610dca851ba165a9ab4074f0ede51"
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    "composes_with": {
      "RigorousSolver": "sema:RigorousSolver#mh:SHA-256:2203568438553dc7e6331a7336e2bf488fc99de0a39c601ca3f63ba3e8849038"
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}