PMFA

Canon Index

Cross-reference map of all axioms

I. FOUNDATIONS

001–006: Why systems fail

# Title
001 Why Flexibility Is a Form of Corruption
002 Why ERP Failed: No Law at the Core
003 Determinism Is Trust
004 Configuration Without Authority
005 Audit Without Replay
006 Multi-Tenancy Without RLS

II. FIRST PRINCIPLES

007–010: What the system must be

# Title
007 Configuration Is Not Law
008 State Is a Side Effect
009 Events Are the Only Source of Truth
010 Determinism Is a Legal Requirement

III. INPUT & COMMAND

011–014: How intent becomes action

# Title
011 Intent Is the Only Valid Input
012 Commands Are Not Decisions
013 Projections Are Contracts, Not Storage
014 Schemas Are Legal Boundaries

IV. TIME & SECURITY

015–016: Temporal and access dimensions

# Title
015 Time Is a First-Class Dimension
016 Security Is a Property of Architecture

V. ENFORCEMENT

017–020: How rules execute

# Title
017 Validation Is Law Enforcement
018 Defaults Are Decisions
019 Silence Is a Decision
020 Failure Is a First-Class Outcome

VI. TEMPORAL POLICY

021–024: Time-based decisions

# Title
021 Retries Are Policy Decisions
022 Timeouts Are Legal Boundaries
023 Concurrency Is a Legal Problem
024 Idempotency Is a Contract

VII. SYSTEM DYNAMICS

025–030: Flow and pressure

# Title
025 Backpressure Is Governance
026 Queues Are Courts
027 Schedulers Are Legislators
028 Caches Are Treaties
029 Consistency Is a Promise
030 Availability Is Permission

VIII. FAILURE & RECOVERY

031–034: When things break

# Title
031 Failure Is a Signal
032 Recovery Is a Policy
033 Rollback Is Not Undo
034 Compensation Is Law

IX. ACCOUNTABILITY

035–037: Measurement and commitment

# Title
035 Observability Is Accountability
036 Metrics Are Incentives
037 SLAs Are Public Promises

X. CONCLUSION

038–040: Final axioms

# Title
038 Contracts Are Executable
039 Policy Is the Product
040 The System Is the Law
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