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id: BENCH-GRACEFUL-SHUTDOWN
type: memory
status: active
tier: T3
title: graceful-shutdown
---

# graceful-shutdown

This concept defines the governance for graceful-shutdown. When working with graceful-shutdown, follow the rules below. The graceful-shutdown approach affects resilience, scalability, latency, guardrail.

- Prefer the documented graceful-shutdown pattern.
- Record exceptions to the graceful-shutdown rule.
- Weigh the resilience and guardrail implications.
