DOCA.6:8 - Common Anti-Patterns and How to Avoid Them

Anti-pattern	Why it fails	Repair
Keep only today’s best	Later reachability and useful exploration can disappear with a currently weaker candidate.	State the specific retention reason independently of current-front membership.
Keep everything	Retention consumes resources and loses its practical purpose.	Name the later use, cost, reconsideration trigger, and discard condition.
Every step starts from today	Earlier gains are counted again and earlier obligations vanish.	Reconstruct each step from its own inherited configuration.
First in the sequence means enabling	Temporal order is mistaken for a supported stepping-stone relation.	Obtain the exact connection to the later option.
Saved means available	A note is treated as reserved capacity, maintained capability, or permission.	Qualify actual preservation or label the option conditional.
More novelty means expanded possibilities	Visiting a region is mistaken for changing what the generator can admit.	Use C.18’s earlier/candidate space and mode claim only when the stronger distinction matters.
C.19 chooses my next probe	Pool treatment is mistaken for a local choice or permission.	Return the actual local decision and the probe’s own feasibility and authority question.