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Write a ceiling into every scheduled instruction

CategorysafetyManual3.9Evidencedocumented

ProblemThe realistic failure is not a Bot doing something forbidden. It is a Bot doing something permitted four hundred times because an upstream page changed shape overnight and every item now matches the filter.

TechniqueCap volume, cap spend, and state what to do when the world looks strange, in the instruction itself.

Why it worksA boundary constrains category; a ceiling constrains quantity, and quantity is what actually goes wrong.

When to useEvery routine and every trigger.

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