Anti-Pattern Sequences are recurring progressions of interacting anti-patterns that commonly appear together in real systems.
Where individual anti-patterns describe structural failures in isolation, Anti-Pattern Sequences describe how those failures combine, reinforce one another, and unfold over time as recognizable failure pathways.
Anti-Pattern Sequences are diagnostic artifacts. They are used to:
- identify recurring pathways of institutional breakdown
- clarify how multiple anti-patterns interact
- support forensic analysis
- reveal causal mechanisms that may inform Civic Topology links
Anti-Pattern Sequences do not replace individual anti-patterns. They sit one level above them, describing how multiple anti-patterns behave in sequence rather than how any single anti-pattern operates alone.