{"id":"path-dependent-composition","title":"Composing operations with obligations inherited from the route","regions":["computation","representation"],"question":"How can a small model compose large programs by navigating compatible operations?","formulation":"A small model is proposed to select prepared operations by intent, entering local subspaces that inherit compatibility requirements from the route used to reach them. Extending simple-code experiments to more general reasoning remains open.","representations":[{"name":"Prepared operations with named interfaces","affords":"Reduces repeated code construction.","loses":"A name does not establish compatibility or reveal all effects.","epistemic_kind":"reconstruction"},{"name":"A context carrying inherited constraints","affords":"Makes route-dependent obligations explicit.","loses":"Compatible local steps may still produce a globally invalid program.","epistemic_kind":"reconstruction"}],"tension":"Standardized composition may reduce effort while producing bulky code and needing revision when standards change.","challenge":"How does the interface know which obligations from earlier operations still apply?","development":"active","epistemic_kind":"reconstruction","evidence":["basis-path-dependent-composition"],"next_move":{"text":"Compare two identical local calls reached through different contexts and test whether incompatible continuations are rejected.","epistemic_kind":"model_proposed"},"open_questions":["How can a small model compose large programs by navigating compatible operations?","How does the interface know which obligations from earlier operations still apply?"],"formal_status":"open_problem","version":1,"content_hash":"a9b651db7fbabeea50c9d04fe5a65bbe31e81f9206ea439ef2ec930cbf74158f"}