{"schema_version":1,"experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp03_full320_20260801","cell_id":"layer_decay_and_expiration_management__agricultural_science","trajectory_id":"R","attempt_index":0,"archetype_slug":"layer_decay_and_expiration_management","domain_slug":"agricultural_science","decision":"CANDIDATE","problem_id":"stale_precision_agriculture_decision_layers","causal_lever_id":"governed_lifecycle_for_field_decision_layers","proposal":{"problem":"Precision-agriculture programs accumulate season-specific yield maps, soil-test surfaces, scouting layers, imagery-derived classifications, and input-prescription maps. When lifecycle state, supersession, dependencies, and retention duties are unclear, obsolete layers may remain selectable as current evidence or prescriptions, while indiscriminate deletion can destroy longitudinal research, regulatory evidence, and reproducibility.","actors_substrate":["farm operators and crop advisers","agronomists and agricultural researchers","precision-agriculture platform administrators","field-season geospatial datasets and derived prescription layers","landowners, workers, neighboring farms, and downstream environmental interests"],"observable_state":"A field or management zone has multiple dated source and derived layers, some lacking visible validity periods, current-season status, owners, dependency links, or recorded disposition; users can select superseded layers alongside current ones.","consequence":"Stale evidence can influence seeding, fertilizer, irrigation, or crop-protection decisions; unresolved accumulation also raises search, maintenance, and storage burden, whereas unsafe cleanup can break prior-season reconstruction and research lineage.","affected_objective":"Improve the correctness and interpretability of agronomic decisions while bounding data-management burden and preserving required longitudinal, evidentiary, and reproducibility value.","structural_mapping":[{"archetype_element":"sequential deposits","domain_realization":"Field observations, analytical surfaces, and prescriptions are deposited across seasons and processing runs.","claim_kind":"INFERENCE"},{"archetype_element":"stale layers remain active","domain_realization":"Superseded field layers can remain selectable without an unmistakable validity or successor marker.","claim_kind":"HYPOTHESIS"},{"archetype_element":"retention versus deletion tension","domain_realization":"Removing old layers may save attention and storage but erase longitudinal comparisons, regulatory evidence, or derivation lineage.","claim_kind":"INFERENCE"},{"archetype_element":"managed lifecycle","domain_realization":"Each layer receives an identity, validity state, retention class, dependency record, disposition path, and review date.","claim_kind":"HYPOTHESIS"}],"component_map":[{"component":"layer_inventory_and_identity_map","status":"direct","domain_realization":"Canonical registry of field, season, source, processing version, and spatial extent."},{"component":"deposition_order_and_age_index","status":"direct","domain_realization":"Acquisition date, crop season, processing date, and version sequence."},{"component":"retention_policy_matrix","status":"adapted","domain_realization":"Rules by raw observation, derived analysis, prescription, research record, and regulated application record."},{"component":"decay_function_or_aging_rule","status":"adapted","domain_realization":"Class-specific decline in current-decision authority, not presumed decline in historical value."},{"component":"expiration_trigger_definition","status":"adapted","domain_realization":"Season close, replacement by validated data, exceeded validity interval, or contextual change triggers review or demotion."},{"component":"layer_value_and_risk_score","status":"adapted","domain_realization":"Ranks candidates using current use, provenance, reproducibility value, misuse risk, and recreation cost."},{"component":"dependency_and_reconstruction_check","status":"direct","domain_realization":"Trace prescriptions and published results back to source layers and transformations before removal."},{"component":"pruning_or_archival_pathway","status":"direct","domain_realization":"Refresh, deactivate, archive, compact, quarantine, or destroy."},{"component":"preservation_exception_register","status":"direct","domain_realization":"Named research, dispute, historical, safety, and evidentiary exceptions with owners."},{"component":"deletion_audit_and_rollback_window","status":"direct","domain_realization":"Reasoned deletion record plus time-limited recoverable quarantine."},{"component":"resource_budget_and_storage_tier","status":"direct","domain_realization":"Budgets for active geospatial service, nearline storage, and archive."},{"component":"review_cadence_and_revalidation_loop","status":"direct","domain_realization":"Pre-season review and periodic archive-recovery exercises."},{"component":"legal_hold_or_compliance_override","status":"adapted","domain_realization":"Suspend disposition for investigations, contracts, regulated-use records, or litigation holds."},{"component":"hot_warm_cold_access_state","status":"direct","domain_realization":"Current operational, recent-season, longitudinal, and deep-archive access states."},{"component":"orphan_layer_detection","status":"direct","domain_realization":"Identify layers with no live derivations, citations, prescriptions, or mandated retention."},{"component":"supersession_marker","status":"direct","domain_realization":"Visible inactive status and pointer to the validated successor."},{"component":"layer_compaction_candidate_flag","status":"adapted","domain_realization":"Flag redundant intermediate rasters or tiles for lossless packaging while preserving provenance."},{"component":"rehydration_or_restore_procedure","status":"direct","domain_realization":"Documented retrieval, decoding, coordinate validation, and reconnection procedure."},{"component":"deletion_impact_estimate","status":"direct","domain_realization":"Estimate affected decisions, derivations, records, and recovery difficulty."},{"component":"stale_context_detector","status":"adapted","domain_realization":"Detect mismatch in season, crop, boundary, calibration, units, method, or source validity."}],"mechanism_dispositions":[{"slug":"age_weighted_value_score","disposition":"selected_supporting","contribution_type":"OPERATIONAL","adaptation_or_rejection":"Use only to prioritize human review; separate current-decision authority from historical value and let holds veto the score.","counterfactual_removal":"Review becomes less scalable, but lifecycle gating still works."},{"slug":"archive_restore_test","disposition":"selected_load_bearing","contribution_type":"SAFETY_GUARDRAIL","adaptation_or_rejection":"Exercise representative raster, vector, sensor, and prescription restores across age and format bands.","counterfactual_removal":"Archival cannot credibly substitute for active retention because recoverability remains unproved."},{"slug":"cache_eviction_rule","disposition":"considered_rejected","contribution_type":"NONE","adaptation_or_rejection":"Fast-tier access optimization does not establish agronomic validity or safe disposition.","counterfactual_removal":"No material change to the proposed causal chain."},{"slug":"dependency_safe_delete_check","disposition":"selected_load_bearing","contribution_type":"SAFETY_GUARDRAIL","adaptation_or_rejection":"Trace datasets, analyses, prescriptions, reports, and external references; incomplete visibility blocks destruction.","counterfactual_removal":"Cleanup could silently break reproducibility and operational dependencies."},{"slug":"lifecycle_storage_tiering_policy","disposition":"selected_supporting","contribution_type":"OPERATIONAL","adaptation_or_rejection":"Demote infrequently accessed layers without treating demotion as loss of scientific value.","counterfactual_removal":"The system can still expire layers, but affordable preservation and active-tier boundedness weaken."},{"slug":"log_rotation_and_cleanup_job","disposition":"considered_rejected","contribution_type":"NONE","adaptation_or_rejection":"Blind generational rotation is unsuitable because rare old seasons may remain scientifically or legally important.","counterfactual_removal":"No material change; disposition remains content-, dependency-, and obligation-sensitive."},{"slug":"retention_schedule","disposition":"selected_load_bearing","contribution_type":"CORE_CAUSAL","adaptation_or_rejection":"Define minimums, maximums, actions, exception owners, and holds by agricultural record class.","counterfactual_removal":"There is no authoritative basis for consistent preservation or disposal."},{"slug":"soft_delete_quarantine_window","disposition":"selected_load_bearing","contribution_type":"SAFETY_GUARDRAIL","adaptation_or_rejection":"Deactivate first, retain recoverably for an impact-scaled period, then require authorized destruction.","counterfactual_removal":"A classification or operator error can become immediately irreversible."},{"slug":"stale_layer_detection_dashboard","disposition":"selected_load_bearing","contribution_type":"CORE_CAUSAL","adaptation_or_rejection":"Surface identity-resolved layers with validity mismatches, owners, successors, and confidence-qualified alerts.","counterfactual_removal":"Stale active layers remain difficult to find and users lack a review worklist."},{"slug":"time_to_live_ttl_policy","disposition":"considered_rejected","contribution_type":"NONE","adaptation_or_rejection":"A blind self-executing clock is unsafe for heterogeneous scientific and regulated records; use expiry-to-review triggers instead.","counterfactual_removal":"No material loss because class-specific review triggers supply boundedness without automatic destruction."},{"slug":"tombstone_or_deletion_marker","disposition":"selected_load_bearing","contribution_type":"CORE_CAUSAL","adaptation_or_rejection":"Retain identity, deletion or supersession state, reason, date, and successor without retaining sensitive content unnecessarily.","counterfactual_removal":"Old references become ambiguous and deleted layers may be mistaken for missing imports or silently recreated."}],"causal_chain":["Inventory and context checks expose stale or superseded decision layers.","Retention rules and holds determine which layers may enter review.","Value ranking prioritizes work but does not authorize deletion.","Dependency and impact gates select refresh, deactivation, archive, compaction, or quarantine.","Markers prevent inactive layers from masquerading as current and preserve reference meaning.","Restore drills and review cycles preserve recoverability while active search space stays bounded."],"baseline":"Keep most layers indefinitely in the operational catalog, using filenames, folders, dates, and individual memory to choose among them; conduct occasional storage-driven manual cleanup.","nearest_rival":"A current-season-only catalog that hides all older layers from normal users while retaining every original unchanged in a separate archive.","authority_safety":{"affected_parties":["farm operators and advisers relying on prescriptions","researchers relying on longitudinal records","workers and neighbors exposed to input decisions","record owners, landowners, and regulators"],"decision_authority":"The agricultural data steward may classify and archive under an approved schedule; agronomic owners validate supersession, compliance or legal officers control holds, and only designated custodians authorize irreversible destruction.","authorized_first_step":"On one consenting research farm, inventory two completed seasons plus the current season, label suspected stale layers in a sandboxed duplicate catalog, and test search and decision tasks without deleting sources or changing field operations.","excluded_actions":["automatic hard deletion","changing live prescriptions without agronomist approval","treating age alone as invalidity","removing held or dependency-uncertain records","using the pilot to direct chemical, fertilizer, irrigation, or seeding operations"],"halt_rollback":"Halt on any missing lineage, incorrect stale label affecting a task, unauthorized exposure, failed restore, or unresolved hold; restore the prior catalog view and leave source data intact."}},"negative_tests":{"strongest_counterevidence":"A representative audit could show that platforms already enforce explicit season, version, and supersession states; users rarely select obsolete layers; storage and search burden are negligible; and reconstruction is already reliable.","analogy_break":"Agricultural layers are not uniformly decaying deposits: an old drought, disease, or treatment season may become more valuable for longitudinal inference, and interacting spatial layers may have meaning only as a preserved set.","failure_condition":"The proposal fails if lifecycle metadata cannot distinguish current-decision validity from historical scientific value, or if external dependencies and retention duties cannot be inspected well enough to gate destruction.","problem_falsifier":"Across representative farms and workflows, obsolete layers are neither confused with current inputs nor materially responsible for decision errors, search effort, maintenance burden, or unsafe cleanup delay.","intervention_falsifier":"In the bounded test, lifecycle labels and filtered views do not reduce stale-layer selections or task time relative to baseline, or they produce false deactivations, broken lineage, or failed restores above the predeclared tolerance.","risks":["False staleness classifications may hide valid agronomic evidence.","Age-weighted scoring may encode contested priorities with false precision.","Archive formats, coordinate systems, or credentials may become unrecoverable.","Lifecycle metadata may expose commercially or personally sensitive farm information.","Tombstones and quarantine copies may conflict with destruction or privacy duties.","Over-tiering may delay access during a time-sensitive agronomic event."]},"null_rationale":null,"classification":{"candidate_kind":"DOMAIN_TRANSFER","prior_art_status":"UNSEARCHED","evidence_maturity":"HYPOTHESIS"},"revision_change_log":{"revision_kind":"ORIGINAL","prior_problem_id":null,"prior_causal_lever_id":null,"problem_changed":false,"causal_lever_changed":false,"conceptual_changes":[],"operational_changes":[],"repairs_addressed":[]},"confidence":0.83,"generator_notes":"Closed-book structural inference from the supplied packet; target-domain prevalence and effect sizes are unverified."}