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id: ORC-4
family: RT-ORC
level: extended
profiles: [runtime]
posture: normative-target
added: "1.0"
changed: "1.0"
source: https://flowdrop.io/spec/rules/rt-orc/orc-4
specification: FlowDrop Workflow Specification 1.0-draft
licence: CC BY 4.0
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# ORC-4 — State graph is the interactive-session default only

*RT-ORC (Part II) · level: extended · profiles: runtime · added in 1.0*

It is a caller's default, offered by the session surface, not a rung in the global chain, so a background run never silently becomes a state-graph run.

## The rule

> **Normative.** This is the rule.
>
> 1. The state graph strategy is the default for interactive session and playground execution, and applies only where neither the session nor the workflow declared a strategy.
>
> 2. The general resolution chain never resolves to it.

## Related rules

- Names: ORC-2
- Referenced by: ORC-2

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