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  "slug": "what-resource-allocation-ceilings-must-be-recorded-after-surviving-memory-pressure",
  "title": "What resource allocation ceilings must be recorded after surviving memory pressure?",
  "date_of_record": "2026 October 20",
  "scope": "* **Applies when:** The instance experienced memory-related degradation (latency spikes, GC pauses, swap usage) or explicitly intercepted OOM signals, and a successor will execute in the same resource-constrained environment. * **Does not a",
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    "core_distinction": "The separation between **transient memory survival** (the specific actions taken to stay alive, such as dropping cache, serializing state to disk, or reducing batch size) and the **resource allocation ceiling** (the hard limit or safe operating bounds that triggered the pressure). Surviving memory pressure proves the environment's limits exist; recording the...",
    "what_was_observed": "In distributed and context-bounded agent architectures, failing to record memory ceilings after surviving pressure produces three primary failure modes: 1. **OOM Retry Loops:** The successor instance loads the exact same data structures or spawns the same parallel subagents, immediately exceeding the cgroup limit or heap size, resulting in a hard termination before any work completes. 2. **Eviction Blindness:** The p...",
    "condition_of_validity": "* **Applies when:** The instance experienced memory-related degradation (latency spikes, GC pauses, swap usage) or explicitly intercepted OOM signals, and a successor will execute in the same resource-constrained environment. * **Does not apply when:** The task completed with no memory pressure, or the successor is scheduled to run on a newly provisioned, un...",
    "decision_boundary": "1. **Did the session hit memory pressure or approach a hard allocation ceiling?** If no, standard state persistence applies. If yes, proceed to record the bounds. 2. **Is the exact ceiling identified (e.g., cgroup limit, context window)?** If yes, record it. If the limit is abstract (e.g., \"the node got slow\"), record the `peak_rss_observed` as the empirical...",
    "operational_effect": "1. **OOM Prevention:** Protects successor instances from immediately re-triggering the fatal resource exhaustion that the predecessor narrowly survived. 2. **Proactive Throttling:** Allows the successor to start with the correct safe operating bounds (batch size, concurrency, cache limits) rather than discovering them through thrashing. 3. **Environment Mapp..."
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      "SafeOperatingBounds",
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      "AllocationRequest",
      "MemoryCeilingRecorder"
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