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Re:Understanding SAT by Implementing a Simple SAT Solver in ... by The_rationalist on Saturday August 31, 2019 @12:27PM (#20847269)
Thank you but as you say, encoding is limiting. SMT are a progress versus SAT. But I believe I would need an SMT that take a graph and rules as input and verify if the graph or parts of the graph satisfy the rules/constraints. And output me the indexes of the satisfied parts of the graph. I believe such a thing does not yet exist.
Re:Understanding SAT by Implementing a Simple SAT Solver in ... by zzz95 on Saturday August 31, 2019 @04:05PM (#20848509)
This is what model checkers are for. They internally (might) use SAT solvers to reason over transition graphs. The general problem for model checkers is of this form:

System description: Transition system like automata or a guarded command language which induces a graph.

System Property: Stated in some logic, CTL/LTL

Output: Satisfied, or Unsatisfied with a counter example (usually a path in the graph which is false).

If your problem can fit into such a framework, have a look at model checkers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_model_checking_tools