PROPOSED ruling

The status a fork ruling takes when nobody can be asked: an unattended or scheduled run records the fork, both readings with their numbers, and the provisional reading it chose, then publishes behind a visible flag. A ruling converts to active only when a named human ratifies it with their own timestamp.

Principle 10 · A metric without its definition is not a number

Where does PROPOSED ruling come from?

Principle 10 of the Kymira doctrine, A metric without its definition is not a number. PROPOSED ruling is the name the doctrine gives to what that principle requires in practice.

What failure is PROPOSED ruling named after?

Two honest headlines from one file. "Latest complete period" at quarter grain or month grain yields figures five times apart from the same rows; both builders were being reasonable.

What does it look like on a real file?

An overnight run picks the month grain reading, publishes it flagged PROPOSED, and leaves the owner unassigned until a person signs it.

Not for

Not attributable to a person. A PROPOSED ruling has no owner until a named human ratifies it with their own timestamp.

Nearest terms

RulingA recorded answer to a metric fork: durable, attributed to a named person, reviewable, and...The forkA point where one metric name covers several defensible definitions in live use: four...What-if branchA labelled figure computed by code under each open reading of a flagged value, one branch per...

Last updated 2026-09-02 · Dylan, founder · one of 40 terms in the Kymira glossary, each one named after something we watched go wrong in a real build or in our own audits.

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