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I.2 · Stable · Part I - Annexes & Extended Tutorials

About this pattern

This is a generated FPF pattern page projected from the published FPF source. It is canonical FPF content for this ID; it is not a fpf-memory product feature page.

How to use this pattern

Read the ID, status, type, and normativity first. Use the content for exact wording, the relations for adjacent concepts, and citations to keep active work grounded without pasting the whole specification.

I.2 is the canonical worked entry-reading support role in this architecture. An I.2 item can serve as one entry-reading vignette, one didactic learning walkthrough, or both. When it serves as entry reading, its E.11 force is limited to disambiguation, wrong-pattern rejection, entry-load reclassification, and admissible entry stop.

worked entry reading here is an explanatory reading case. It is not U.Work, not a workflow, not a route script, and not an execution trace.

I.2 carries expanded reading only when compact J.4 guidance plus local Problem frame recognition are insufficient for one high-risk, often-misclassified, repeatedly failed, retrieval-facing, or materially new entry neighborhood. Compact-index-only posture is a complete admissible entry result when the J.4 row and pattern Problem frame are enough.

Each worked entry reading keeps recoverable:

  • Case signal

  • Initial uncertainty

  • Plausible candidate patterns

  • Tempting wrong pattern, wrong defining episteme, or false family

  • Disambiguating fact

  • Recognition repair or entry-load reclassification

  • Actual governing FPF pattern body or projection role

  • Admissible entry stop

  • What not to infer

  • Case signal: "We keep mixing responsibility, method, plan, and what actually happened."

  • Posture: compact-index-only is normally sufficient.

  • Initial uncertainty: the reader may think FPF starts with the whole specification, but the entry load is narrower: align context, roles, method vocabulary, work vocabulary, and actual execution.

  • Plausible candidate patterns: A.1.1, A.15, A.15.2, A.15.3, B.5.1.

  • Nearby patterns: F.11 for method vocabulary and work vocabulary; F.9 for bridge discipline; F.17 for an early term sheet when vocabulary is the live stabilizing result.

  • Tempting wrong pattern: treat F.17 or E.9 as a universal first stop.

  • Actual governing FPF pattern body or projection role: A.15 and its neighbors govern the role, method, plan, and run split; F.17 is a stabilizing lexical projection, not the whole alignment governing pattern.

  • Admissible entry stop: the reader has opened the right alignment governing pattern or has enough first shared vocabulary to proceed.

  • What not to infer: no universal first chain is implied.

Relations

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Content

Project alignment

  • Case signal: "We keep mixing responsibility, method, plan, and what actually happened."
  • Posture: compact-index-only is normally sufficient.
  • Initial uncertainty: the reader may think FPF starts with the whole specification, but the entry load is narrower: align context, roles, method vocabulary, work vocabulary, and actual execution.
  • Plausible candidate patterns: A.1.1, A.15, A.15.2, A.15.3, B.5.1.
  • Nearby patterns: F.11 for method vocabulary and work vocabulary; F.9 for bridge discipline; F.17 for an early term sheet when vocabulary is the live stabilizing result.
  • Tempting wrong pattern: treat F.17 or E.9 as a universal first stop.
  • Actual governing FPF pattern body or projection role: A.15 and its neighbors govern the role, method, plan, and run split; F.17 is a stabilizing lexical projection, not the whole alignment governing pattern.
  • Admissible entry stop: the reader has opened the right alignment governing pattern or has enough first shared vocabulary to proceed.
  • What not to infer: no universal first chain is implied.

Partly-said cue and language-state discovery

  • Case signal: "This phrase matters, but it is not yet a claim."

  • Initial uncertainty: the reader can be seeing one cue, one early language-state requirement, one publication seam, or one L/A/D/E-classified claim family.

  • Plausible candidate patterns: C.2.LS, A.16, A.16.1, A.16.2, B.4.1, B.5.2.0.

  • Tempting wrong pattern: harden the cue into A.6.P, A.6.Q, A.6.A, or C.25 before it is stable enough to be a claim, action, or quality object.

  • Disambiguating fact: the phrase still needs preservation and entry-load typing; it is not yet an endpoint claim.

  • Decision movement: if the phrase is still a cue, stay in C.2.LS / A.16; if it must be preserved across a seam, inspect A.16.1 / B.4.1; if it is already a boundary claim, inspect A.6.B / A.6.C; if it is being forced into a quality endpoint or action-invitation endpoint too early, reject A.6.Q, A.6.A, and C.25 for now.

  • Actual governing FPF pattern body or projection role: C.2.LS, A.16*, and B.4.1 are the first governing patterns for cue preservation and entry plurality; A.6.B / A.6.C become first governing patterns only after boundary claim structure is actually live.

  • Admissible entry stop: cue preserved, entry plurality opened, or entry-load reclassified into the right boundary-claim pattern.

  • What not to infer: do not recast the cue as a finished requirement, work record, quality claim, or action invitation too early.

Boundary unpacking and claim decomposition

  • Case signal: "The API or contract-language description says X."
  • Initial uncertainty: the reader may be seeing one boundary description, an admissibility gate, a duty, an evidence claim, an action invitation, or an interface/access note.
  • Plausible candidate patterns: A.6, A.6.B, A.6.C.
  • Nearby patterns: A.6.RSIG if first-contact recognition is still live; A.6.P for relation wording; A.6.Q for quality wording; A.6.A for action invitation wording; E.17 for publication or view question.
  • Tempting wrong pattern: treat an API/access phrase as a promise of downstream effect, or treat one boundary phrase as a complete Contract Bundle.
  • Disambiguating fact: the sentence mixes admissibility, gate, duty, evidence, and action-invitation requirements, or the encountered description's defining U.Episteme is not yet clear.
  • Recognition repair or entry-load reclassification: use A.6.RSIG if the first question is "what description is this?"; otherwise inspect A.6.B / A.6.C for atomic boundary claim structure.
  • Actual governing FPF pattern body or projection role: A.6.B and A.6.C govern L/A/D/E-classified claim decomposition; A.6.RSIG only governs first-contact description recognition.
  • Admissible entry stop: boundary claim pattern opened, or one Claim Register or L/A/D/E-classified atomic claim set is ready for the next governing FPF pattern.
  • What not to infer: one contract-language or API cue does not by itself create one work action, quality claim, or evidence relation.

Admissible comparison, candidate-pool policy, selection, and selected-set publication

  • Case signal: "We need a shortlist, not one winner."

  • Initial uncertainty: the live entry load can be comparison substrate, candidate-pool policy, one local choice, call planning, or selected-set publication.

  • Plausible candidate patterns: A.19.CN, A.17-A.19, C.18, C.19, G.0, G.5.

  • Nearby patterns: C.11 if the entry load narrows to one local decision doctrine; C.24 if the next honest artifact is a call plan or checkpoint return; A.19.CPM and A.19.SelectorMechanism if comparator/selector structure is live.

  • Tempting wrong pattern: treat C.11 as the first governing pattern while the real entry load is candidate-pool policy or selected-set publication.

  • Disambiguating fact: the output remains one governed set, shortlist, or selected-set publication question rather than one single winner.

  • Decision movement: if the work is still forming a candidate pool, inspect C.19; if the set is ready to be published as a governed shortlist, inspect G.5; if the question has narrowed to choosing one option under a local decision doctrine, inspect C.11; if the missing object is a call plan or planned comparison setup, inspect C.24.

  • Actual governing FPF pattern body or projection role: C.19 for candidate-pool policy, G.5 for selected-set publication, C.11 for local choice, C.24 for call-planning/checkpoint-return.

  • Admissible entry stop: the correct first governing pattern is opened, or an admissible candidate-pattern set is stabilised without implying sequence.

  • What not to infer: do not force a one-winner answer when the honest output is still a governed selected set.

Generator, SoTA, or Portfolio Kit

  • Case signal: "We need a reusable search/harvest/portfolio scaffold, not one recommendation."
  • Posture: compact-index-only is normally sufficient unless repeated misclassification makes a worked reading necessary.
  • Initial uncertainty: the reader can confuse generator/scaffold authoring with one-off recommendation, one comparison, one selected-set publication, or tooling choice.
  • Plausible candidate patterns: A.0, G.0, G.1, G.2, G.5.
  • Nearby patterns: B.5.2.1 and C.17-C.19 when creative search, novelty, or explore/exploit policy is already central; G.10 or G.11 when shipping or refresh is live.
  • Tempting wrong pattern: jump to G.5 publication or a local selector before the reusable generator/SoTA scaffold is declared.
  • Disambiguating fact: the generator, SoTA, or portfolio kit must be reusable across searches, portfolios, or updates.
  • Actual governing FPF pattern body or projection role: G.1 and G.2 for generator and SoTA support; G.5 only when selected-set publication is live.
  • Admissible entry stop: scaffold/generator pattern body opened, or portfolio publication pattern identified.
  • What not to infer: not every generator/SoTA entry load is a tool implementation or one immediate publication obligation.

Same-entity rewrite, explanation, and comparative reading

  • Case signal: "We need to explain the same described entity for another audience."
  • Initial uncertainty: explanation, rendering, repair, representation transition, and comparison are all nearby, and the reader can accidentally mint one second described entity.
  • Plausible candidate patterns: A.6.3.CR, A.6.3.RT, E.17.EFP, E.17.ID.CR.
  • Nearby patterns: E.17.AUD.LHR for pressured-head local repair; E.17.AUD.OOTD for PublicationUnit stability.
  • Tempting wrong pattern: explanation-as-new-object or repair-as-second-rule track.
  • Disambiguating fact: the governed object stays the same; only rendering, reading posture, or explanatory framing changes.
  • Recognition repair or entry-load reclassification: move toward same-entity rewrite or explanation-facing rendering while rejecting second-object drift.
  • Actual governing FPF pattern body or projection role: A.6.3.CR for same-entity retextualization, A.6.3.RT for representation transition, E.17.EFP for explanation-facing rendering, E.17.ID.CR for bounded comparative reading.
  • Admissible entry stop: same-entity rewrite opened or explanation-facing rendering stabilized with source pins.
  • What not to infer: explanation or comparison does not by itself justify a second semantic track.

Temporal claim adequacy: state -> rate -> Dyn2

  • Case signal: "Adding review capacity for two sprints will double backlog reduction rate."
  • Initial uncertainty: the reader may be seeing ordinary prose, one state reading or snapshot, one measured rate, one intervention-sensitive temporal claim, a benchmark claim, a quality claim, a viability claim, a promise, a causal claim, an evaluation claim, a dynamics-law claim, or a residual QL question.
  • Plausible candidate patterns: C.27, C.16, A.3.3, B.1.4, B.1.6, C.24, G.9, C.25, C.26.3, C.26.
  • Tempting wrong pattern: treat every speed or rhythm word as C.27, or treat every C.27 card as benchmark proof, causal proof, service promise, quality claim, viability claim, reusable transition law, or QL activation.
  • Disambiguating fact: the phrase changes admissible use only when effort, window, resistance or cost, basis, and reopen condition matter for action.
  • Recognition repair or question reclassification: keep a snapshot as Dyn0; keep a measured trend or rate as Dyn1 and inspect C.16 when measurement construction or comparability is live; use Dyn2TemporalClaimAdequacyCard when the intervention-sensitive temporal claim itself changes admissible use; move the other question to the named FPF pattern that governs it.
  • Actual governing FPF pattern or projection role: C.27 carries authored temporal-claim adequacy; C.16 carries measurement construction and comparability; A.3.3 carries reusable transition law or formal dynamics model; G.9 carries benchmark parity; C.25 carries quality-family adequacy; C.26.3 carries viability-envelope regulation; C.26 carries residual QL reading only after ordinary temporal, measurement, work, benchmark, proxy, and dynamics readings are exhausted.
  • Admissible entry stop: ordinary prose, Dyn0, Dyn1 with C.16 when measurement construction or comparability is live, a local Dyn2TemporalClaimAdequacyCard, a boundary-crossing Dyn2TemporalClaimProfile, or a named neighboring FPF pattern relation.
  • What not to infer: faster is not automatically better, a velocity target is not proof of improvement, a dynamic benchmark is not benchmark superiority, and a rhythm or inertia word does not by itself mint a new dynamics object.

Causal-use and counterfactual-support repair

  • Case signal: "This policy would have prevented harm", "this intervention caused the improvement", "this fairness result is causal", "this method is better on counterfactual outcomes", or "these simulated counterfactuals prove the decision".
  • Initial uncertainty: the reader may be seeing association, a metric disparity, temporal change, method execution, work-plan use, work occurrence, simulation output, deontic boundary language, or a real causal-use claim.
  • Plausible candidate patterns: C.28, A.10, B.3, C.11, C.19, C.24, C.26, C.27, D.5, G.5, G.9, A.15, A.3.2, A.6, C.16.
  • Tempting wrong pattern: use D.5 to treat metric fairness as causal fairness; use G.9 to compare methods across different causal rungs; use C.26 to hide causal under quantum-like wording; use C.27 to treat rate change as causal effect; use A.15 or A.3.2 to treat a sampling method, intervention procedure, or target-trial recipe as causal support by itself; use A.6 to turn causal evidence into a duty or release gate.
  • Disambiguating fact: the decisive question is not whether a causal-looking word appears. The decisive question is whether the claim is used to publish, choose, deploy, assure, audit, benchmark, or dispatch a causal use governed by C.28: effect, intervention success, counterfactual comparison, causal fairness, policy optimality, causal evidence support, off-policy/causal-RL evaluation, or causal method superiority.
  • Recognition repair or question reclassification: if only a measured value is live, repair in C.16; if only rate, trend, or temporal adequacy is live, repair in C.27; if only method, work, or work-plan structure is live, repair in A.15 and A.3.2; if only boundary duty or agreement language is live, split with A.6; if only residual QL modeling language is live, use C.26 only after ordinary measurement, temporal, work, benchmark, proxy, and dynamics readings are exhausted.
  • Actual governing FPF pattern body or projection role: C.28 carries causal-use question, causality-ladder rung, claim kind, causal estimand, identification, counterfactual sampling realizability, causal evidence support basis, support record and verdict, supported use, and unsupported use. A.10 carries evidence/provenance path, B.3 carries assurance consequence, D.5 carries ethical/fairness audit, G.5 carries method dispatch, and G.9 carries benchmark parity only as consumers of C.28 support.
  • Admissible entry stop: a cheap downgrade sentence, a local CausalUseTriageRecord, a local or durable CausalUseEvidenceDesignRecord, a CausalUseSupportVerdict, or a named neighbor-pattern use that cites C.28 without claiming broader authority.
  • What not to infer: a randomized procedure is not automatically counterfactual support; a simulation is not realized counterfactual data; a target-trial phrase is not proof of identification; a fairness metric is not causal fairness; a method benchmark is not comparable if methods sit on different causal rungs or estimands; and a causal support record does not by itself create a duty, promise, commitment, release gate, or admissibility predicate.

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Last Updated: 2026-05-15 — this section last modified in upstream FPF commit 37a19061 (github.com/ailev/FPF)