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    "required": [
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    ],
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        "type": "array",
        "items": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "description": "High-level points to be expanded"
      },
      "expansions": {
        "type": "object",
        "description": "Map of outline point index to expanded content"
      }
    }
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  "gloss": "Parallel outline-first topology",
  "invariants": [
    "Independence: no point's expansion may depend on another point's expansion.",
    "Single level: the outline is one level of breadth — a point that itself fans out is a {{topology}} of a different shape."
  ],
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    "ring": 2,
    "path": [
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      "Data Structures"
    ],
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    ]
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  "sema_ref": "Skeleton#d950",
  "sema_stub": "d950",
  "dependencies": {
    "references": {
      "topology": "sema:Topology#mh:SHA-256:58ad1ff07863b0fbf1250185232c48d8815752e4ce4f32a971166a56be297467"
    }
  },
  "sema_layer": "Infrastructure",
  "sema_category": "Data Structures",
  "used_by": {
    "references": {
      "SkeletonOfThought": "sema:SkeletonOfThought#mh:SHA-256:546fddc8b06269b0fbc3c38475df6e688242ac0f6d586bd597bf20655413f874"
    }
  }
}