{"cases":[{"alternative_route_blocks":[],"case_id":"E14A009__DIRECT","case_type":"DIRECT_POSITIVE","domain":"Automated food-packaging inspection","intended_route_id":"B1","omitted_condition_id":null,"remedy_leakage_audit":"The statement reports operating conditions and failure behavior without proposing cleaning, redesign, replacement, or any other intervention.","route_evidence":[{"condition_id":"b035_a15_c1","intended_status":"SATISFIED","scenario_evidence":"The inspection camera requires an unobstructed protective window to produce usable images."},{"condition_id":"b035_a15_c2","intended_status":"SATISFIED","scenario_evidence":"Airborne starch, oil mist, and seasoning dust settle on the window despite playing no role in inspection."},{"condition_id":"b035_a15_c3","intended_status":"SATISFIED","scenario_evidence":"Light dust is tolerated, but a modest additional film causes a steep increase in rejected images."},{"condition_id":"b035_a15_c4","intended_status":"SATISFIED","scenario_evidence":"Vibration and airflow dislodge material more slowly than new material accumulates."}],"scenario_text":"A high-speed snack-packaging line uses an overhead camera to verify seal alignment and read date codes before cartons are closed. The camera sits behind a transparent protective window above an open transfer belt. Airborne starch, seasoning dust, and fine oil droplets from nearby processing equipment continually settle on the window even though none of that material contributes to the inspection task. The vision system works normally with a light, scattered coating, and operators initially see little change in accuracy. Once the deposits form a more continuous film, however, contrast and edge detection deteriorate abruptly; date codes blur, reflective packages produce glare, and false rejects rise severalfold over a short interval. Belt vibration and the enclosure’s normal airflow knock off some loose grains, but they remove material more slowly than fresh residue arrives. Production records show that image quality consistently worsens during long runs even when camera electronics, lighting output, package placement, and software settings remain stable.","scenario_title":"Inspection Images Deteriorate During Long Packaging Runs","vocabulary_separation_audit":"This case uses physical manufacturing vocabulary—camera window, starch, oil droplets, glare, and packaging—distinct from the computing vocabulary of the transfer cases."},{"alternative_route_blocks":[],"case_id":"E14A009__TRANSFER","case_type":"TRANSFER_POSITIVE","domain":"Cloud API request processing","intended_route_id":"B1","omitted_condition_id":null,"remedy_leakage_audit":"The statement identifies observed resource occupation and nonlinear service degradation but recommends no configuration, software, or operational change.","route_evidence":[{"condition_id":"b035_a15_c1","intended_status":"SATISFIED","scenario_evidence":"The gateway requires available worker slots to admit and process new customer calls."},{"condition_id":"b035_a15_c2","intended_status":"SATISFIED","scenario_evidence":"Abandoned sessions and orphaned sockets retain slots although they no longer correspond to useful requests."},{"condition_id":"b035_a15_c3","intended_status":"SATISFIED","scenario_evidence":"Low stale occupancy has little effect, while latency and failures rise abruptly beyond roughly three-quarters occupancy."},{"condition_id":"b035_a15_c4","intended_status":"SATISFIED","scenario_evidence":"Stale claims form faster than ordinary timeouts and background reaping release them."}],"scenario_text":"A regional payment platform routes merchant API calls through gateway instances, each with a fixed pool of worker slots. New calls can be admitted only while some slots remain available. Logs show that interrupted mobile sessions, clients that vanish during network handoffs, and orphaned sockets sometimes retain a slot after useful processing has ended. These lingering claims are not carrying merchant transactions, but they accumulate throughout the business day. A few have no measurable effect. When total occupancy passes roughly three quarters of the pool, queueing delay climbs abruptly, retry traffic increases, and otherwise healthy requests begin timing out. The gateway’s normal session expiration and background reaper eventually release many abandoned claims, yet during peak periods they clear them more slowly than new ones are created. The pool therefore approaches exhaustion even though processor load, database response time, and the rate of completed legitimate payments remain within their usual ranges. Restarts temporarily restore availability, but the same progression returns as traffic continues.","scenario_title":"Gateway Capacity Vanishes Despite Normal Transaction Load","vocabulary_separation_audit":"The transfer case recasts the route in cloud-service terms—worker pools, sockets, sessions, retries, and timeouts—with no manufacturing materials or optical-inspection language."},{"alternative_route_blocks":[],"case_id":"E14A009__NEAR_MISS","case_type":"ONE_LITERAL_NEAR_MISS","domain":"Cloud API request processing","intended_route_id":"B1","omitted_condition_id":"b035_a15_c2","remedy_leakage_audit":"The statement supplies diagnostic observations only and does not recommend scaling, throttling, queue changes, or any other remedy.","route_evidence":[{"condition_id":"b035_a15_c1","intended_status":"SATISFIED","scenario_evidence":"Free worker slots are necessary for the service to accept additional requests."},{"condition_id":"b035_a15_c2","intended_status":"CONTRADICTED","scenario_evidence":"Tracing explicitly establishes that every occupied slot belongs to a live, authenticated request performing requested work, with no stale or extraneous claims."},{"condition_id":"b035_a15_c3","intended_status":"SATISFIED","scenario_evidence":"Moderate occupancy is harmless, but delay and timeout rates increase sharply near pool saturation."},{"condition_id":"b035_a15_c4","intended_status":"SATISFIED","scenario_evidence":"Legitimate requests acquire slots faster than completed requests release them during the surge."}],"scenario_text":"A regional payment platform routes merchant API calls through gateway instances, each with a fixed pool of worker slots. New calls can enter only while slots remain available. During a promotional sale, occupancy rises steadily and eventually approaches the pool limit. Moderate occupancy produces normal response times, but beyond roughly three quarters of capacity, queueing delay increases sharply, clients retry, and timeout rates accelerate. Detailed tracing rules out abandoned sessions, orphaned sockets, duplicate internal tasks, health-check traffic, and expired claims. Every occupied slot is tied to a live, authenticated merchant request that is still executing requested payment work; no non-work or obsolete claim is present. The requests are simply arriving faster than completed transactions release their slots, so ordinary successful processing cannot reduce occupancy as quickly as new calls raise it. Processor utilization and database latency also increase consistently with the active workload. The service becomes unavailable near saturation even though slot accounting is accurate and all retained work remains legitimate.","scenario_title":"Sale Traffic Saturates a Gateway With Only Live Requests","vocabulary_separation_audit":"The near miss retains the transfer case’s cloud vocabulary and operational difficulty while explicitly excluding stale, abandoned, duplicate, and other non-work occupants."}],"experiment_id":"eoa_inverse_innovation_exp14_applicability_retrieval40_20260813","sample_id":"E14A009","schema_version":1}