The Principia Machina/Diagrams/02 Container lifecycle

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Structural diagram 2 of 12. Part of the TPM hub.

• KIND: process
• LANGUAGE: Mermaid
• GENERATED FROM: per-UWC manifest state; TPS 5.5, 5.6, 5.11.6, 3.4
• STATUS: hand-authored at TPS 0.1.0; superseded by TPX at its first build
• SOURCE SHA-256: 55920209132686549c1a56c6736fcb04573125e4b95b9487dcd14db514d89dd1

Rendered live from the source, which is the text equivalent and is shown under the drawing. The key to the shapes is in the panel.

Source (the text equivalent; Mermaid)

%% 02 Container lifecycle. process/Mermaid state. Generated from: per-container manifest state; TPS 5.5, 5.6, 5.11.6, 3.4.
stateDiagram-v2
  [*] --> Draft : DRAFT UWC page (5.5.1)
  Draft --> Draft : rejected component returned (5.5.2)
  Draft --> Certified : H-DECL lands the certificate (5.5.4)
  Certified --> Working : lock acquired (5.7)
  Working --> Certified : release after push (5.10.1)
  Working --> Halted : digest-gate failure (2.5.5)
  Halted --> Certified : RESTORE declared (2.5.7)
  Halted --> Forked : FORK declared (2.5.7)
  Certified --> Forked : change request, COPY-FORWARD (5.5.6, 3.4)
  Forked --> [*] : successor takes a new UUID and prefix
  Certified --> Retired : H-DECL declares RETIRED (5.6.5)
  Retired --> [*] : pages read-only, index entry kept (5.11.6)

Text equivalent

A container begins as a DRAFT UWC page; a rejected component returns it to its author (5.5.1, 5.5.2). It becomes CERTIFIED when H-DECL lands the certificate (5.5.4). Work alternates between the lock held and released after a push (5.7, 5.10.1). A digest-gate failure halts writes until a human declares RESTORE or FORK (2.5.5, 2.5.7). A change request forks it by COPY-FORWARD into a successor with a new UUID and prefix (5.5.6, 3.4). RETIRED, declared by H-DECL, leaves the pages read-only and the index entry in place (5.6.5, 5.11.6).