0-3-5-understand-a009

name	0.3.5-understand-a009
description	["0.3.5"]
Asymmetric agreement	one class of processes (e.g., primary) must agree while another class (e.g., backups) ma

understand-a009

CALL NUMBER: deep_raft.a009 : distributed_consensus_and_replication_protocols(3) DEFINITION: Asymmetric agreement: one class of processes (e.g., primary) must agree while another class (e.g., backups) may reach different decisions, used in primary-backup protocols.

Invoke this skill to understand a009 down to its primitives. The RELATIVE ROOT below is the least-fixed-point closure of everything it bundles from — the full import cone, grouped by the lib each prim comes from. Projected from a prover-typed KB (MAP/SWI-Prolog consistency gate): every reference below resolves.

THE RELATIVE ROOT (the import cone, by lib)

from ?

• agreement (d2): The property that a set of distributed processes reach the same decision outcome on a given value. Uniform agreement requires all processes including those that later crash to decide identically; asymmetric agreement permits different decision classes for different process roles such as primary versus backup.

from deep_raft

• a007 (d2): Quorum in agreement: a subset of processes sufficient to guarantee agreement can be reached, typically intersecting any valid quorum to ensure overlap.
• a008 (d2): Threshold in agreement: the minimum number of correct processes required to guarantee safety and liveness under given failure assumptions.
• a002 (d3): Validity in agreement: the decided value must have been proposed by some process in the system, guaranteeing agreements are grounded in actual proposals.
• a005 (d4): Uniform agreement: all processes including those that later fail must decide on the same value, stricter than ordinary agreement which only binds correct processes.
• a004 (d4): Termination in agreement: every correct process eventually decides some value, ensuring the protocol makes progress and does not stall indefinitely.

from distributed_consensus_and_replication_protocols

• consensus (d1): Agreement on a single value among a set of distributed processes; the core problem consensus protocols solve.
• fault_tolerance (d2): System's ability to continue operating correctly despite component failures.
• replicated_log (d3): Ordered log of commands maintained across replicas; foundation of state machine replication.

CONSUMERS (what needs this)

a007, a008, a010

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Projected from the distributed consensus and replication protocols KB (196 concepts / 187 relations) — consistency-typed by MAP; the facet list after the colon IS the cross-lib dependency web.

(leaf — this is an actual skill.)