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📖 Carolopedia › RefusalGuide page
📖What it means
Work that came back declined — by a model, a guard or a rule. A refusal must FAIL its run: returning it as a normal value tells the monitor the work happened, which is how a job reported success for weeks while doing nothing.
⚖️What it is NOT
The neighbours this word is most often confused with, and the line between them.
Not: Failure
A refusal is a deliberate 'no'; a failure is something going wrong.
Not: Fallback
A refusal stops; a fallback continues by another route.
🗣️Also called
declinedrejected callblocked call