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proof(verisimdb): close V5 (Octad transaction atomicity) with TLA+/TLC
OctadAtomicity.tla models a VeriSimDB transaction's lifecycle (PENDING -> COMMITTED | ABORTED) across all 8 modalities (graph/vector/tensor/semantic/document/temporal/provenance/spatial) with an adversary that can inject crashes during PENDING. Safety invariants proven (bounded model, TLC): * Atomicity -- COMMITTED => all 8 modalities updated; ABORTED => no modalities updated. The central all-or-nothing claim. * NoObservablePartial -- any terminal transaction's update set is {} or the full 8. * StatusMonotone -- no committed-then-empty states reachable (complements Atomicity against any future rollback-after-commit action). Liveness: EveryTxnResolves -- every transaction eventually reaches COMMITTED or ABORTED under WF(Commit \/ Abort). Abort is always enabled while PENDING, so the disjunction is continuously enabled. Config: Txns = {t1, t2}, MaxCrashes = 2. Model-check: 134,160 distinct states at depth 19, 18s wall-clock on an 8-core laptop via eclipse-temurin:21-jre (podman-ephemeral). Wiring: * `just verify-tlaplus` (new recipe in verisimdb Justfile) -- matches the pattern landed in hypatia earlier today; uses host Java when present, otherwise ephemeral container. Fetches tla2tools.jar on first run. * verification/proofs/tlaplus/{README.adoc, .gitignore} -- parallel to the hypatia tlaplus dir. Closes V5 in proof-debt-plan.md. V9 (normalizer determinism) and V10 (transaction serializability) remain TLA+-shaped follow-ups. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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build-ffi:
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cd ffi/zig && zig build
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# Model-check TLA+ specifications (e.g. V5 Octad transaction atomicity)
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verify-tlaplus:
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
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# Uses host Java if available, otherwise an ephemeral eclipse-temurin:21-jre
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# container. Honours $TLA2TOOLS_JAR for a pre-fetched jar location.
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set -euo pipefail
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SPEC_DIR="verification/proofs/tlaplus"
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TLA2TOOLS_JAR="${TLA2TOOLS_JAR:-$HOME/.local/share/tla2tools.jar}"
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if [ ! -f "$TLA2TOOLS_JAR" ]; then
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mkdir -p "$(dirname "$TLA2TOOLS_JAR")"
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echo "Fetching tla2tools.jar -> $TLA2TOOLS_JAR"
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curl -sSL -o "$TLA2TOOLS_JAR" \
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https://github.com/tlaplus/tlaplus/releases/latest/download/tla2tools.jar
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fi
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run_tlc() {
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local spec="$1" cfg="$2"
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echo "== TLC on $spec ($cfg)"
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if command -v java >/dev/null 2>&1; then
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(cd "$SPEC_DIR" && java -XX:+UseParallelGC -cp "$TLA2TOOLS_JAR" tlc2.TLC \
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-workers auto -config "$cfg" "$spec")
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else
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podman run --rm \
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-v "$PWD/$SPEC_DIR:/work:Z" \
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-v "$TLA2TOOLS_JAR:/tla2tools.jar:ro,Z" \
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-w /work docker.io/library/eclipse-temurin:21-jre \
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java -XX:+UseParallelGC -cp /tla2tools.jar tlc2.TLC \
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-workers auto -config "$cfg" "$spec"
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fi
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}
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run_tlc OctadAtomicity.tla OctadAtomicity.cfg
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# ── Test ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
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# Run Rust tests
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# SPDX-License-Identifier: PMPL-1.0-or-later
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# TLC model-checker scratch output.
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states/
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tlc.log
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\* SPDX-License-Identifier: PMPL-1.0-or-later
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\* TLC configuration for OctadAtomicity.tla (V5).
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\*
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\* Bounded instance: 2 transactions, up to 2 crashes per run. With 8 modalities
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\* and 3 status values, state space is bounded by
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\* (3 * 2^8)^2 * 3 ~ 1.8M states upper bound; in practice < 100k reachable.
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\*
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\* Run with:
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\* java -cp tla2tools.jar tlc2.TLC -config OctadAtomicity.cfg OctadAtomicity.tla
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\* or via the repo `just verify-tlaplus` recipe (see verisimdb Justfile).
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SPECIFICATION Spec
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CONSTANTS
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Txns = {"t1", "t2"}
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MaxCrashes = 2
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INVARIANTS
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OctadSafe
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PROPERTIES
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EveryTxnResolves
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CHECK_DEADLOCK FALSE
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------------------------------ MODULE OctadAtomicity ------------------------------
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\* SPDX-License-Identifier: PMPL-1.0-or-later
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\* Copyright (c) 2026 Jonathan D.A. Jewell (hyperpolymath) <j.d.a.jewell@open.ac.uk>
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\*
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\* V5: Transaction atomicity across the 8 modalities of a VeriSimDB octad.
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\* Corresponds to rust-core/verisim-octad/src/transaction.rs.
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\*
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\* A VeriSimDB octad is a record with 8 per-modality projections. A transaction
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\* touches a subset of the 8 modality projections and must be either fully
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\* committed (all 8 projections updated) or fully aborted (none visible). No
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\* PARTIAL state is ever observable outside a transaction's own PENDING scope.
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\*
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\* This spec models the transaction lifecycle (PENDING -> COMMITTED | ABORTED)
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\* together with fault injection (crashes during a PENDING transaction) and
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\* proves the Atomicity invariant under an adversary that can interleave
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\* multiple concurrent transactions and crashes.
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EXTENDS Naturals, FiniteSets, TLC
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CONSTANTS
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Txns, \* finite set of transaction identifiers
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MaxCrashes \* bound on the number of crash events per run
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ASSUME Cardinality(Txns) >= 1
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ASSUME MaxCrashes \in Nat
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\* The 8 modalities of a VeriSimDB octad.
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Modalities == {"graph", "vector", "tensor", "semantic",
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"document", "temporal", "provenance", "spatial"}
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Status == {"PENDING", "COMMITTED", "ABORTED"}
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VARIABLES
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txnStatus, \* [Txns -> Status] - each transaction's lifecycle stage
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modalityUpdates, \* [Txns -> SUBSET Modalities] - modalities already applied
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crashes \* Nat - bounded counter for fault-injection events
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vars == <<txnStatus, modalityUpdates, crashes>>
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TypeOK ==
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/\ txnStatus \in [Txns -> Status]
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/\ modalityUpdates \in [Txns -> SUBSET Modalities]
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/\ crashes \in 0..MaxCrashes
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Init ==
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/\ txnStatus = [t \in Txns |-> "PENDING"]
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/\ modalityUpdates = [t \in Txns |-> {}]
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/\ crashes = 0
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\* Incremental per-modality application during a PENDING transaction.
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\* Each modality can be applied at most once per transaction (enforced by the
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\* set-union: \cup already-applied is idempotent, but we also disallow reapply
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\* via the `m \notin` guard so TLC bounds the state space by 2^|Modalities|).
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ApplyModality(t, m) ==
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/\ txnStatus[t] = "PENDING"
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/\ m \notin modalityUpdates[t]
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/\ modalityUpdates' = [modalityUpdates EXCEPT ![t] = @ \cup {m}]
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/\ UNCHANGED <<txnStatus, crashes>>
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\* Commit: only allowed once all 8 modalities have been applied. The commit
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\* is itself atomic in the spec (single state transition); the Rust source is
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\* expected to implement this via a 2-phase commit or equivalent mechanism.
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Commit(t) ==
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/\ txnStatus[t] = "PENDING"
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/\ modalityUpdates[t] = Modalities
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/\ txnStatus' = [txnStatus EXCEPT ![t] = "COMMITTED"]
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/\ UNCHANGED <<modalityUpdates, crashes>>
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\* ABORTED. Can fire at any time during PENDING.
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/\ txnStatus[t] = "PENDING"
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/\ txnStatus' = [txnStatus EXCEPT ![t] = "ABORTED"]
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/\ modalityUpdates' = [modalityUpdates EXCEPT ![t] = {}]
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/\ UNCHANGED crashes
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\* Crash during PENDING. Recovery must act as an abort: rollback applied
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\* updates, transition to ABORTED. This is the adversarial event that the
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\* Atomicity invariant is designed to defeat: without the rollback, a crash
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/\ crashes < MaxCrashes
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/\ txnStatus[t] = "PENDING"
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/\ txnStatus' = [txnStatus EXCEPT ![t] = "ABORTED"]
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/\ modalityUpdates' = [modalityUpdates EXCEPT ![t] = {}]
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/\ crashes' = crashes + 1
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\/ \E t \in Txns, m \in Modalities: ApplyModality(t, m)
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\/ \E t \in Txns: Crash(t)
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\* I1. The central atomicity claim:
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\A t \in Txns:
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/\ (txnStatus[t] = "COMMITTED" => modalityUpdates[t] = Modalities)
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\* invariant on (txnStatus, txnStatus') is not trivial without action vars;
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/\ TypeOK
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// SPDX-License-Identifier: PMPL-1.0-or-later
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// Copyright (c) 2026 Jonathan D.A. Jewell (hyperpolymath) <j.d.a.jewell@open.ac.uk>
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= VeriSimDB TLA+ proofs
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:toc:
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== V5: Octad transaction atomicity
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Specification: `OctadAtomicity.tla` +
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Configuration: `OctadAtomicity.cfg` +
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Source being verified: `rust-core/verisim-octad/src/transaction.rs`
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Models the VeriSimDB transaction lifecycle over an 8-modality octad
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(`graph`, `vector`, `tensor`, `semantic`, `document`, `temporal`,
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`provenance`, `spatial`) under an adversary that can crash a PENDING
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* `Atomicity` -- `COMMITTED` implies all 8 modalities updated; `ABORTED`
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* `NoObservablePartial` -- any terminal transaction's update set is
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either the full 8 modalities or the empty set.
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* `StatusMonotone` -- no terminal status ever reverts (paired with
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terminal status (COMMITTED or ABORTED), given weak fairness on the
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`Commit \/ Abort` disjunction.
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== Running TLC
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Preferred: `just verify-tlaplus` from the verisimdb repo root. Works with
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or without a host Java install (falls back to an ephemeral
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`eclipse-temurin:21-jre` podman container).
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Manual invocation:
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[source,bash]
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----
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cd verification/proofs/tlaplus/
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java -cp ~/.local/share/tla2tools.jar tlc2.TLC \
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----
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The default config bounds the model to 2 transactions and 2 crash
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events. State space: 134,160 distinct states at depth 19, ~18s on an
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8-core laptop. Verified 2026-04-17.
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== Cross-references
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* `developer-ecosystem/standards/docs/proofs/spec-templates/T1-critical/verisimdb.md` -- V5
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* `/home/hyper/Desktop/proof-debt-plan.md` -- Dependability / VeriSimDB V5
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== Future specs in this directory
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V9 (normalizer determinism) and V10 (transaction serializability) are
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the remaining TLA+-shaped VeriSimDB obligations. They will land as
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separate `.tla` files under this directory; extend `verify-tlaplus` in
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the Justfile to run each.

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