/identify-critical-chain

name: identify-critical-chain
description: "Identify the longest/limiting dependency path while accounting for resource contention and convergence points."

identify-critical-chain

Purpose

Identify the longest/limiting dependency path while accounting for resource contention and convergence points.

Input contract

required: [dependency_graph, resource_constraints, convergence_points]
optional: [evidence, assumptions, prior_results]
constraints: [use named scientific objects; retain provenance and missingness; $\alpha$ = 0.05 and power = 0.8 where applicable]

Procedure

1. Validate the typed inputs and state the decision this operation must support. 2. Apply the declared operation to the named object; record intermediate values that affect interpretation. 3. Check boundary conditions and counterexamples, then emit the result with uncertainty and source links.

Output contract

produces: [identify_critical_chain_result, evidence_trace, uncertainties]
delta_fields: [evidence_updates, uncertainties]

Quality gates

• Inputs are named scientific objects with compatible schemas.
• Every material result has a derivation or source reference.
• Fixed statistical criteria remain exact where applicable: $\alpha$ 0.05 and power 0.8.

Failure and counterexamples

Return a failed operation with the violated precondition when inputs are incomplete, assumptions are unsupported, or a counterexample defeats the result.

Provenance map

• intermediate: experiment-execution/critical-chain-identification