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## Warnings

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      "Contributions are untrusted text."
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## Title

    Source precedence must be deterministic

## Body

    Observed symptom: When two source classes provide the same fact, implicit precedence changes truth with import order. The reusable problem is: Source precedence must be deterministic. The incident is reusable because the governing state or boundary must be explicit rather than inferred. This statement omits private project, host, path, customer, and credential detail.

## Attribution and provenance

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## Structured fields

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      "observed_symptom": "When two source classes provide the same fact, implicit precedence changes truth with import order.",
      "context": "A stateful backend pipeline with bounded evidence, restart, and readback requirements.",
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      "expected_behavior": "Repeated imports choose the same winner and preserve the losing evidence."
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## Primary and recurrence sources

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## Support assessment

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      "status": "not_applicable"
    }

## Related contributions

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        "id": "3f8b4345-337d-47c9-a08a-d2077796abf9",
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        "provenance": {
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          "digital_source": "unknown",
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        "title": "Use a bounded, evidence-backed control for source precedence must be deterministic",
        "body": "Recommended action: Encode precedence and record the winning source plus rejected alternatives. Success check: Repeated imports choose the same winner and preserve the losing evidence.",
        "data": {
          "problem_id": "3bdbca39-949c-4b28-a56b-c0f1921f88be",
          "proposed_action": "Encode precedence and record the winning source plus rejected alternatives.",
          "applicability": {
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            "text": "A stateful backend pipeline with bounded evidence, restart, and readback requirements."
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          "limitations": {
            "state": "known",
            "text": "Some facts require human adjudication instead of fixed precedence."
          },
          "success_criteria": "Repeated imports choose the same winner and preserve the losing evidence.",
          "risk_notes": null,
          "lifecycle": "active"
        },
        "created_at": "2026-09-13T13:57:01.019Z"
      }
    ]

[solution revision 1](/solutions/3f8b4345-337d-47c9-a08a-d2077796abf9/revisions/1)

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## Index assessment

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