Weak operational

Recovery Path

guide users back from error, drift, or interrupted state

Running the actual pattern live via applyPattern() — switch the substrate, stack overlays, watch the signals, or reverse the dynamics. Not a mock.

"Recovery Path" — guide users back from error, drift, or interrupted state. It has a memory layer (a decaying trail / hysteresis), a morph layer (assemble matter into a mark/shape (never words, §11)), a link layer (ropes / cloth between neighbours), a fieldflow layer (solar prominences, aurora, plasma streams, guided matter), and a gravity layer (universal attraction toward mass). Matter follows the field geometry because of fieldflow, not the field-owning force itself. The active render stack is field-lines, streamlines, links, particles.

When a process fails or interrupts, memory holds the last coherent path while gravity pulls the user back toward it and fieldflow carries them along the guided return, morphing the broken state back into a stable one.

Runtime tokens: memory a decaying trail / hysteresismorph assemble matter into a mark/shape (never words, §11)link ropes / cloth between neighboursfieldflow solar prominences, aurora, plasma streams, guided mattergravity universal attraction toward mass
Metrics: recovery a semantic lane — drive it with data-field-<metric> (or a domain model); without that its --field-<metric> stays inertmemory computed every frame by the platform (proximity · engagement · relationships · age)last-stable a semantic lane — drive it with data-field-<metric> (or a domain model); without that its --field-<metric> stays inertconfidence written only when the host supplies it — the engine never invents confidence/risk recovery, last-stable are host-supplied lanes — drive them with data-field-<metric> (or a domain model); without that, their --field-* stays inert.
Diagnostics: heatmap prediction causality
Conditions: stale
Render: field-lines · streamlines · links · particles
Reduced motion: a recovery checklist with a last-good-state marker and a restore path
Without motion: the last coherent state is marked and recovery is an ordered checklist back to it, not a generic error screen

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<field-root></field-root>
  <div data-body="memory" data-strength="1" data-range="320" data-feedback></div>
  <div data-body="morph" data-strength="0.6" data-range="240"></div>
  <div data-body="link" data-strength="0.6" data-range="300"></div>
  <div data-body="fieldflow" data-strength="0.7" data-range="0"></div>
  <div data-body="gravity" data-strength="0.6" data-range="360"></div>

<script type="module">
  import '@fundamental-engine/elements';
</script>

<field-root></field-root>
  <div data-body="memory" data-strength="1" data-range="320" data-feedback></div>
  <div data-body="morph" data-strength="0.6" data-range="240"></div>
  <div data-body="link" data-strength="0.6" data-range="300"></div>
  <div data-body="fieldflow" data-strength="0.7" data-range="0"></div>
  <div data-body="gravity" data-strength="0.6" data-range="360"></div>

import { FieldField } from '@fundamental-engine/react';

export default function RecoveryPath() {
  return (
    <FieldField>
      <div data-body="memory" data-strength="1" data-range="320" data-feedback />
      <div data-body="morph" data-strength="0.6" data-range="240" />
      <div data-body="link" data-strength="0.6" data-range="300" />
      <div data-body="fieldflow" data-strength="0.7" data-range="0" />
      <div data-body="gravity" data-strength="0.6" data-range="360" />
    </FieldField>
  );
}

{
  "id": "recovery-path",
  "name": "Recovery Path",
  "intent": "guide users back from error, drift, or interrupted state",
  "naturalField": "weak",
  "primitives": [
    "memory",
    "morph",
    "link",
    "fieldflow",
    "gravity"
  ],
  "bodies": [
    {
      "body": "memory",
      "strength": 1,
      "range": 320,
      "feedback": true
    },
    {
      "body": "morph",
      "strength": 0.6,
      "range": 240
    },
    {
      "body": "link",
      "strength": 0.6,
      "range": 300
    },
    {
      "body": "fieldflow",
      "strength": 0.7,
      "range": 0
    },
    {
      "body": "gravity",
      "strength": 0.6,
      "range": 360
    }
  ],
  "relationships": [
    {
      "from": "state",
      "to": "last-stable",
      "type": "restores-to",
      "strength": 0.7
    }
  ],
  "render": [
    "field-lines",
    "streamlines",
    "links",
    "particles"
  ],
  "metrics": [
    "recovery",
    "memory",
    "last-stable",
    "confidence"
  ],
  "diagnostics": [
    "heatmap",
    "prediction",
    "causality"
  ],
  "accessibility": {
    "reducedMotion": "a recovery checklist with a last-good-state marker and a restore path",
    "meaningWithoutMotion": "the last coherent state is marked and recovery is an ordered checklist back to it, not a generic error screen"
  },
  "notes": "When a process fails or interrupts, memory holds the last coherent path while gravity pulls the user back toward it and fieldflow carries them along the guided return, morphing the broken state back into a stable one.",
  "tier": "operational",
  "status": "shipped",
  "conditions": [
    "stale"
  ]
}

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