livelock-recoverylisted

# Livelock Recovery ## Core principle Stop repeated activity, identify the unchanged outcome, change strategy materially, and reduce the search space. ## Procedure 1. Freeze the repeating action. 2. Compare recent actions semantically. 3. Name the outcome that did not change. 4. Remove speculative branches and invalid assumptions. 5. Choose a new hypothesis, evidence source, isolation, or layer. 6. Reduce scope, retry once, then escalate or block if still unchanged. ## Required output Repeated cycle, unchanged metric, new strategy, reduced scope, and retry result. ## Limits Reset after 4 stalled cycles or 3 same-strategy attempts. ## Common mistakes Do not make recovery generate more hypotheses or perform a fourth equivalent attempt. ## Stop condition Stop when measurable progress resumes or an exact blocker is proven.