What’s new · Interactive explanation

Change One Fact. Follow Everything It Changes.

A new interactive Course Echo scenario shows how one capacity revision changes a plan, exposes stale views, tests authored alternatives, and stops visibly at human authority.

August 24, 20261 minute readinteractive
Release
FYI-2026-08-24-02
Availability
Public

What became possible

Visitors can now change one source fact in a compact planning scenario and watch its consequences move through the modeled decision.

Course Echo begins with six transports and six required movements. The plan completes in one wave with five minutes of margin. An updated logistics revision reduces available transport to five. That one-unit change forces a second wave, moves completion outside the decision window, and makes the original plan infeasible.

What the lab makes visible

  • The identity, time, and revision of the changed fact
  • The dependency path from capacity to plan feasibility
  • The difference between a current source and stale operational views
  • Why two authored alternatives fail
  • Why the remaining branch is only conditionally feasible
  • Where computation must stop and accountable authority must begin

Boundaries

The fixture is fictional and deterministic. Its alternatives are predefined, and its timings are not performance claims. It demonstrates how to reason about a changing modeled decision without implying a live deployment, global optimization, or operational authorization.

Open the change-one-fact lab.

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