📖What it means

The safety trip that halts a lane when it detects it is doing damage — looping, burning budget, or repeating a failure. A tripped breaker is the machine protecting itself, not a fault to be cleared without understanding why it fired. A breaker counts the work its lane OWNS, not the work its agent merely performs: a failed ladder rescue trips the PLANNER breaker, never the breaker of the bypass lane that carried it out.

📖Easily confused with

[{"term": "Master switch", "distinction": "The breaker trips itself automatically; the master switch is the operator's deliberate stop."}, {"term": "Watchdog", "distinction": "A breaker STOPS things; a watchdog only alerts."}, {"term": "Kill switch", "distinction": "A kill switch is a file the operator drops to stop one lane by hand, with the reason written in it. A breaker is automatic and clears when its condition clears."}]

📖Nuance

Counting work the lane merely performed is cross-lane interference: it let one failed planner rescue stop Albus's own urgent and wish work. Lane attribution now comes from the claim record, not from whose droid ran.

📖Also called

- lane breaker
- the trip
- andon cord

📖Filed under

Category: execution.

Service: Build Initiatives.