C.26.3:4.3 - Metric-induced distortion
Name sensors, probes, dashboards, alerts, metrics, disturbances, and candidate interventions in the envelope claim when they matter. They participate only in world-side relations defined by their direct patterns; C.26.3 does not infer a generic viability relation from their appearance in the same card. A probe or dashboard may still affect behavior, but that effect needs its own grounded claim.
| Anti-pattern | What goes wrong | Repair |
|---|---|---|
| Metric-as-envelope | A proxy is treated as the whole envelope. | Recover the exact object filling the local viability-bearer position and the pattern used to identify it, protected promise, full envelope, unmeasured dimensions, and admissible use. |
| Goodharted viability | Actors optimize measured slots while damaging unmeasured survivor relations or future adaptability. | Use C.26.1 when the probe changes represented state but its output is used as a passive read for the decision; add evidence for unmeasured envelope dimensions. |
| Intervention overfit | A proposed or enacted move preserves one parameter while pushing another cost, latency, boundary relation, or promise outside bounds. | Add the trade-off condition, authority, latency, adaptation cost, and failure mode; recover any Method, description, plan, Work, change, setting, or relation under its subject pattern. |