Fragility, Failure & Continuity Risk

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Essential function is vulnerable to disruption, common-mode failure, or recovery that is too slow, incomplete, or uncertain after a fault or shock.

This problem family contains 29 solution archetypes and 205 mechanisms. Choose a more specific problem pattern below; each subfamily page drills into the mechanisms inherited from its archetypes. Click a column header to sort.

Problem subfamily	Mechanisms	Archetypes	Description
Dependency Concentration & Common-Mode Loss	48	6	Nominally plural providers, paths, backups, or pooled exposures share enough concentration or correlation that one cause can remove them together.
Failure Anticipation & Surprise Readiness	38	5	Hidden failure paths and unmodeled disruptions remain untested because preparation is tied too narrowly to ordinary variance and named scenarios.
Fault Containment & Bounded Service Loss	42	9	A local fault or partner failure can eliminate the whole function because failure domains, alternate activation, and essential degraded service are absent.
Operating Margin, Slack & Stress Absorption	49	5	Ordinary variation, shock, or required fabrication exhausts reserve or load-bearing capacity because operation, resources, or physical form sit too close to a failure boundary.
Rollback, Reentry & Recovery Trajectory	28	4	After change or disruption, the system lacks a safe prior state, staged return, repair path, or trajectory to durable restored function.