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  "handle": "PatternEmergence",
  "mechanism": "Before proposing a pattern top-down, the {{agent}} analyzes records of practice for recurring behavior that has emerged bottom-up. It records each evidence-backed recurring structure, its contexts, supporting instances, and counterexamples as a candidate for later evaluation and codification; if none is found, it records that result.",
  "gloss": "Recognizing implicit patterns in existing practice",
  "failure_modes": [
    "Bad-Habit Candidate: Recurrence is treated as reusable structure even though it is only a workaround for a broken {{system}}.",
    "Apophenia: Perceiving a pattern in random {{noise}} or one-off coincidences.",
    "Over-fitting: The candidate is so specific to past events that it cannot {{generalize}} to future ones."
  ],
  "invariants": [
    "Descriptive Priority: Each candidate records what is observed, not what should happen.",
    "Existence Proof: Each candidate records observed instances before it is named."
  ],
  "preconditions": [
    "Records of practice available."
  ],
  "postconditions": [
    "Evidence-backed candidate pattern(s), or a recorded no-recurrence-found result, returned."
  ],
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    "ring": 2,
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    "path": [
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      "Reasoning"
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