ihabkhaled Livelock Recovery
Core principle
Stop repeated activity, identify the unchanged outcome, change strategy materially, and reduce the search space.
Procedure
- Freeze the repeating action.
- Compare recent actions semantically.
- Name the outcome that did not change.
- Remove speculative branches and invalid assumptions.
- Choose a new hypothesis, evidence source, isolation, or layer.
- Reduce scope, retry once, then escalate or block if still unchanged.
Required output
Repeated cycle, unchanged metric, new strategy, reduced scope, and retry result.
Limits
Reset after 4 stalled cycles or 3 same-strategy attempts.
Common mistakes
Do not make recovery generate more hypotheses or perform a fourth equivalent attempt.
Stop condition
Stop when measurable progress resumes or an exact blocker is proven.