Pattern Quality Gates: Review and Refresh Profiles
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Type: Architectural pattern Status: Stable Normativity: Normative
Use E.19 when one exact new, substantially revised, or aging FPF pattern edition or bounded subset needs a repeatable admission, refresh, or return-for-repair review. E.19 supplies profile-based questions and conclusion semantics. A reviewer applies the selected questions and returns either repaired text with focused verification or actionable findings.
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Use this when
Use E.19 when one exact new, substantially revised, or aging FPF pattern edition or bounded subset needs a repeatable admission, refresh, or return-for-repair review. E.19 supplies profile-based questions and conclusion semantics. A reviewer applies the selected questions and returns either repaired text with focused verification or actionable findings.
Use it especially when a draft looks structurally compliant but may still fail on first-minute usability, primary EntityOfConcern stability, terminology, SoTA grounding, related-pattern boundaries, examples, anti-patterns, or shipping-facing authority claims.
Not this pattern when. Use E.8 to write the pattern body. Use E.9 to record the content decision that explains why FPF should change. Use E.9.DA when the question is whether one exact DRR is adequate for a declared downstream authoring use before drafting or host amendment; its ordinary result may be precise findings or repaired text, while exact C.2.1 and coordinate-result apparatus is conditional on a requested reusable result or named reliance. Use E.21 for ordinal pattern-quality evaluation of one exact pattern version. Use E.23 when the aim is repeated quality improvement against an object-under-improvement evaluation rather than one admission or refresh review profile. Use local patterns for the domain rule or constraint being reviewed. Use project gate or release patterns when the question is whether a project publication, work-result record, or release candidate passes a delivery gate. E.19 governs review of FPF pattern admission/refresh only; its profiles and results do not certify the world, project, publication, or release.
What goes wrong if missed
Review collapses into heading compliance or personal taste. A draft can pass because it has the right headings while still being hard for a practitioner to recognise, too thin against current practice, unclear about its primary EntityOfConcern, relation record, or claim record, or misleading about related patterns and the authority each pattern's content actually carries.
What this buys
E.19 gives authors, reviewers, and stewards a shared review profile: what must be checked, how deep the check should go, which defects block admission or refresh, and what evidence is needed before a pattern-quality claim is made. It also makes the recognition text visible before the heavier assurance machinery begins.
First useful move. Name the reviewed pattern edition or subset and the admission or refresh question. Select PCP-BASE plus only the risk profiles the question needs. Inspect the affected loci, then repair and verify each defect or return the actionable findings.
Local-repair boundary. If baseline triage shows that the current review question has no present ontology, usability, SoTA, boundary, naming, or authority risk beyond a small mechanical repair, close with that repair direction. Do not run every profile just because E.19 exists, and do not claim an E.21 quality value unless E.21 has evaluated the pattern version over its required coordinate set.
Three quick recognition situations. The same review move should be visible before the profile details:
Primary EntityOfConcern in plain terms. One FPF pattern edition or bounded subset under an admission or refresh review question. The selected checks, reviewer, any repair, findings, optional aggregate result and evidence use, and any authority-bearing decision remain distinct when those objects are current.
Primary working reader. The first reader is an FPF reviewer, with the pattern author close behind. The review must still be answerable to the eventual practitioner or manager who will rely on the admitted pattern.
Problem frame
FPF evolves by adding and revising patterns. Over time, the framework accumulates two kinds of risk:
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Admission risk — a newly authored pattern can be structurally compliant yet still fail on ontology, semantics, terminology conflicts and vagueness, scope, SoTA in related disciplines, or cross-context hygiene.
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Staleness risk — older patterns can remain internally consistent while drifting away from contemporary practice and newer parts of FPF, current internal vocabulary, or updated related patterns and their defining or constraining content. The result is “quiet decay”: the pattern still appears clear, but becomes misleading, incomplete, or incompatible.
FPF already contains many checklists and constraints, but they are distributed across patterns and suites. Authors and reviewers therefore lack a single, repeatable way to answer: What should be checked, and how deep, before a pattern is admitted or kept?
Problem
Without a unified, explicit review pattern:
- Different reviewers optimize for formal or template compliance and miss deeper ontological, semantic, and naming issues, producing bureaucratic output that does not improve the enforceable Conformance Checklist.
- Authors “optimize for the visible checklist” and miss hidden requirements (lexical discipline, Bridge hygiene, SoTA‑Echoing quality, scope claims, delta‑class impact).
- Older patterns accumulate conceptual staleness and diverge from current practice, current terminology, or current internal invariants.
- The specification's normative content becomes harder to trust: compliance becomes a matter of reviewer taste rather than a repeatable gate.
Forces
Solution — Profile-based gates for admission and refresh
Establish Pattern Quality Gates (PQG): a conceptual family of profile-based declarations for admission and refresh checks rather than a single monolithic checklist.
A Pattern Check Profile (PCP) is a named bundle of check families. Profiles are additive: every review configuration includes the baseline profile and only the risk-driven profiles needed by the declared question. A PCP specifies questions and closure conditions; the reviewer applies them and returns findings or repaired text. An unselected profile requires no result row or durable disposition.
Choose review depth from the harm if a defect survives, the novelty and complexity of the claim, how widely the pattern will be reused, and how likely its sources or neighbors are to change. Pattern length, official status, and the number of available checks do not justify deeper review by themselves. Use cheap automated or template checks for properties they can actually test, then spend reviewer attention on semantic, ontological, practitioner-use, and current-source questions they cannot close.
Terminology note (disambiguation). PQG and PCP are editorial review constructs in the authoring plane (Part E). They are distinct from enactment and runtime gating constructs such as OperationalGate(profile), GateProfile, and GateDecision (A.21), which govern Work transitions and gate decision policies elsewhere in FPF.
Mint vs reuse. This pattern mints PQG, PCP, and the profile IDs PCP-BASE, PCP-MOD, PCP-PRAG, PCP-NORM, PCP-SOTA, PCP-BRIDGE, PCP-SUITE, PCP-P2W, PCP-TERM, PCP-DEONT, PCP-REFRESH, and PCP-ENTRY. It reuses existing FPF terms (e.g., Delta-Class, DRR, Bridge, CL, SoTA Synthesis Pack) without changing their meanings.
For an ordinary bounded review, keep the reviewed edition or subset, question, selected profiles, checked loci, defects or repairs, and conclusion. When exact replay or a named later use needs a stronger account, also keep independently recoverable:
- the exact reviewed FPF pattern edition or bounded subset and the declared admission/refresh question;
- the review configuration: baseline and risk-selected PCP declarations, exact question scope, use, qualification window, and stop boundary;
- the semantic review
U.Method, when that identity matters; call an episteme itsU.MethodDescriptiononly after it passes A.3.2; - for each actual review, repair, or verification occurrence asserted as dated
U.Work, recover every exact actual performer through A.13 and use A.15.1 to identify its time, Method, containing System, and Work independently. Add F.6 only when the review account expressly consumes precise assignment-bound attribution through the same obtaining A.13 assignment. That attribution must be independently grounded rather than inferred from holder identity or timing, and a missing or failed F.6 link leaves the Work intact; - each exact PCP check application and A.6.1 binding only when the receiving use must replay those bindings;
- any distinct authoring/repair work, changed pattern edition, and focused verification work/application in inspect-repair-verify form;
- actionable finding or blocker claims, focused-verification claims, and one C.2.1 aggregate E.19 review-result episteme when a durable conclusion is required;
- any separate authority-bearing admission, refresh, return-for-repair, or waiver decision and its decision work;
- witnesses, A.10 evidence-use or provenance relations, and any B.3 assurance or reliance result when those claims are made; and
- any F.10 status use, publication occurrence or form, carrier, and currentness relation used by the receiving claim.
Any local system-role kind and its independently evaluated classification are optional separate claims; neither supplies assignment or performance. Route unresolved source role through E.10.ROLE, and name intended-reader or representation positions directly. When a later claim relies on a dated occurrence, apply item 4 and CC-E19-0.
The phrase review run is Plain shorthand for that configuration, the reviewer's actions, and their results. The §4 account keeps the declarations, applied Method, actual review work, findings, result, and any authority-bearing decision distinct when those identities are needed.
Define the reviewed pattern or subset
Name the reviewed pattern or bounded subset, its edition or other stable version basis, the admission or refresh question, the selected profile questions, and the review boundary. That is enough for an ordinary bounded review. Add exact scope, window, and review-configuration identities only when a receiving result or named reliance needs them. Profile choice selects the questions and review depth; an ordinary bounded review requires no progress record.
When a reusable result or named reliance depends on how the review was enacted, apply the item 4 actual-Work account and CC-E19-0 to each asserted review, repair, or verification occurrence. If a durable aggregate result is needed, constitute a C.2.1 result episteme whose EntityOfConcern is the reviewed pattern edition or subset and whose ClaimGraph states the review scope, applicable profile questions, actionable findings or aggregate cleared boundary, conclusion, and reopen condition. Add a non-use boundary only when it changes a named receiving use under the F.19 plausible-intended-reader test. Witnesses, evidence use, the optional result publication, and any authority-bearing admission or refresh decision remain separate.
Choose inspect-repair-verify when the reviewer may edit and same-turn repair fits the declared use. Choose independent findings when the review needs separation from the author or an unchanged candidate. Independence changes who edits; it does not add a dossier or expand the selected questions.
Choose one review form. An E.19 review has two forms:
- Inspect, repair, and verify. One bounded review may include inspection, repair, and focused verification. A reviewer performs those actions; distinguish their performer, Method, affected object, or occurrence only when the positions differ or a named later use needs them. Apply item 4 and
CC-E19-0if the account asserts dated Work. Apply every selected question, repair every in-scope defect, and reapply the affected checks. The changed edition and focused verification carry the substantive evidence; constitute an aggregate E.19 result episteme only when a receiving admission or refresh decision requires it. Make a separate findings record only for an unresolved blocker, a decision outside current authority, or transfer to another author. - Independent findings. A reviewer applies the selected questions without changing the reviewed pattern or subset. One C.2.1 findings-result episteme or handoff file records every actionable defect and blocker, with repair direction precise enough for the author to act without repeating the diagnosis. It is neither the reviewing action nor an admission decision.
A selected question that reveals no defect requires no durable pass entry. Independent review does not accumulate positive recitals, and inspect-repair-verify does not duplicate completed repairs in a parallel findings record. If another pattern defines a reusable value or decision required by the declared use—such as an E.21 coordinate, a DRR decision, or a landing result—that value belongs to the result required by that pattern rather than to an E.19 progress account. E.19 specifies the substantive questions and outcomes independently of how a working environment keeps place during the review.
Complete the selected scope. Inspect every independently answerable question in the declared baseline and risk-selected scope. The first defect, blocker, or already-negative admission conclusion may prevent a positive verdict, but it does not complete the review and does not suppress findings that remain independently obtainable. Stop before the selected scope is complete only when a missing source, missing authority, unsafe boundary, or equivalent condition makes the remaining questions impossible to judge truthfully or safely. In that case, record the unexamined scope and why it cannot be judged; do not present the partial findings set as complete.
A nontrivial pattern-quality review SHOULD state its quality-evaluation purpose before depth is selected. Use E.22 or an equivalent compact question frame to say whether this review is a floorEvaluation, exceptionalImprovementEvaluation, paretoTradeoffEvaluation, openQuestionDiscoveryEvaluation, absorptionEvaluation, or a declared combination. If the purpose is absent, E.19 treats the review as an admission-refresh blocker read, not as a request to raise every evaluated coordinate toward exceptional expression. When coordinate values, PatternQualityStatus, or all-4/all-5 claims are needed for one pattern version, the review opens or consumes an E.21 result instead of assigning those values inside E.19.
When the review opens or consumes E.21, E.19 treats E.21 as a hard pattern-quality evaluation, not as a selectable profile. The review must not accept an E.21 claim that omits required coordinates, omits ShortRationale, omits PrecisionRestorationProfile, uses inactive/triggered-coordinate language, narrows the requested use to make the result pass, or replaces coordinate values with blocker triage. In inspect-repair-verify, repair or re-evaluate the affected result where that work is in scope; in independent findings, record the exact defect. Baseline triage can answer only the E.19 review boundary when no E.21 quality value, all-4/all-5 claim, landing-quality claim, or pattern-improvement movement claim is being made.
If the aim is repeated improvement against an object-under-improvement evaluation, use E.23 for the repeated method. An E.19 review configuration may supply PCP questions and its result episteme may supply findings inside that loop, but a profile is not the loop method and an E.19 result is not an ordinal quality value. Only a separate E.21 assessment application and result episteme can state the E.21 coordinate values for the changed pattern version.
E.19 reviewer and reviewed-pattern wording is FPF pattern-quality gate wording. It governs FPF admission, refresh, return-for-repair, blocker, and review-profile claims, not E.21 coordinate assignment and not project-side publication interpretation, explanation interpretation, comparative review-unit use, or participation in a named project-side review relation. When those project-side relations are used, use the publication or project-side pattern that names the object being interpreted or reviewed.
Project-side reuse boundary. Use this boundary when an E.19 review-result episteme is cited as project certification, project evidence, safety-assurance material, gate input, release justification, compliance-assurance material, assurance material, work authority, or publication truth. First identify the exact FPF pattern-quality claim it states: admission, refresh, repair return, or selected pattern-quality boundary. Any project-side reuse then opens the concrete relation that governs that use: A.10 for evidence/currentness, B.3 for assurance, F.10 for status use/interpretation, A.20 for a current local CV status when applicable, A.21 for gate decision, A.15 for work, or the relevant project-side pattern. The E.19 result may be evidence about FPF pattern quality; it is not certification of the project world. Plain wording in the reviewed text remains ordinary unless it changes admissible use, evidence, gate, assurance, work, decision, status use, or FPF pattern application. A project refusal or approval requires a project-side governing relation that states the project claim and its admissible use.
Formal or template defects (e.g. non-compliance with E.8 structure or not conforming to RFC deontic terminology) have lower review priority than semantic or ontological defects or non-SoTA Solutions. In inspect-repair-verify, repair them within the declared boundary; in independent findings, record them with concrete repair direction.
E.g. if the header block is missing or incomplete, continue with ontology and semantic review first. Treat missing header fields as one mechanical defect, not as a reason to stop (PCP-BASE #7).
When a proposed or accepted pattern change needs a best-known Delta-Class (Δ-0…Δ-3) and initial impact radius, place them in the governing change, decision, or landing result using E.15's actual-effect and actual-dependency tests. E.19 repairs or reports an omission that matters to the selected review; it does not copy a successful change account into a second review record.
Apply the baseline profile to every run
Every run MUST include PCP‑BASE as a triage baseline. Full-depth checking is selected only where the relevant risk is present; reviewer depth SHOULD prioritize the FPF-governed sections and enforceable requirements in E.19:4.2.1.
- Internal coherence (problem <-> conformance claim <-> solution) The Conformance Checklist matches Problem statement and the Solution (no "orphan requirements" and no "unclaimed requirements").
- Lexical discipline & reserved vocabulary Terms and registers follow lexical rules; ambiguous "everyday" synonyms do not silently replace kernel vocabulary.
- SoTA-Echoing minimum compliance (E.8) SoTA-Echoing satisfies the E.8 authoring requirements applicable to the pattern kind (Architectural vs Definitional), including explicit adopt/adapt/reject stances and the E.8 two-part SoTA test: current best-known problem-solving practice for the named practice question, and by-value incorporation into FPF-governed pattern loci. If a SoTA Synthesis Pack exists for the topic, SoTA-Echoing binds to it rather than forking an untracked narrative; any divergence of pattern norms from contemporary practice is explicitly stated as such. SoTA-Echoing MUST be non-decorative, MUST reflect best-known current practice rather than official status, source recency, institutional adoption, or merely popular defaults for the declared problem, and MUST govern the Solution and other FPF-governed sections, or those sections MUST justify divergence explicitly.
- Cross-pattern compatibility & impact radius Relations are consistent with declared dependencies and dependents; declared scope/impact is compatible or explicitly limited.
- Didactic grounding Archetypal Grounding is present and teaches the concept with concrete cases or references, not only abstractions.
- Reader-fit
The pattern body addresses the intended FPF user in the working role governed by that pattern. FPF developers, package architects, reviewers, and evaluators are appropriate readers when they occupy that role. FPF-governed sections explain admissible use, costs, boundaries, the concrete definitions, constraints, tests, or other contributions used from FPF patterns named by value, project-side FPF kinds and references named by value, and related relations named by value in user terms. Architecture placement, freeze or merge state, package-boundary rationale, reference boilerplate, quality or projection evidence, corpus-entry evidence,
PatternQualityStatus, monolith-parity evidence, landing evidence, and broader package-development rationale stay inDRR, architecture documents, review handoff,E.21result,E.19findings, README, ToC,E.11,I.2, cards, retrieval or projection carriers, release or landing evidence carriers, companions, or ordinary references unless they change the working reader's first admissible move. - Template & section integrity This is lowest priority for review depth and SHOULD NOT consume effort that would displace ontology, semantics, modularity, slot discipline, or SoTA checks.
- Modularity & contradiction hygiene
The pattern SHOULD NOT be overloaded or significantly expand requirements or dependencies without an explicit reason and impact record.
Checks include: scope containment, split/refactor recommendations when warranted, and contradiction scans against neighbor patterns in Relations.
The pattern SHOULD balance cohesion and coupling across FPF.
If the pattern defines specialization or an abstraction stack, it SHOULD NOT mix slot interfaces or parameters from different abstraction positions; use explicit
⊑/⊑⁺orUsescuts instead. - Substantive solution and locus adequacy Baseline triage includes a small reviewed-pattern-specific question set about the actual problem and current change: does the pattern still solve the stated problem, are decision loci and applications of the relevant patterns correct, are kind boundaries and selected companion or projection functions preserved, did anything get worse, are SoTA rows current enough for the claim they discipline, and is the support material required by that claim neither too thin nor too heavy?
- Triggered method, performer, work, and result separation
When a Solution says how work should be done, first distinguish content that defines, constrains, tests, or guides a Method from an assertion that one dated Work occurrence or world-side change actually obtains. Method guidance alone does not trigger a fictive performer or Work. If an account asserts dated
U.Work, verify the §4 actual-Work account; if it asserts a world-side change, identify the change relation, the pattern that defines it, and the things it relates. Keep the intended-reader position, any qualifying A.3.2 method-description episteme, actual performer, Work, and problem-facing result separate. For a literal datedU.Workclaim, return a finding when an episteme, checklist, plan, prose, or intended-reader or representation position is made to perform Work, or when Work and result are collapsed. Judge ordinary or metonymic wording through the complete-claim test inF.19; a familiar instrumental expression alone does not require a formal Work account.
Triage: spend depth on FPF-governed sections without making reviews heavier
PQG is meant to increase semantic and ontological trust, not to turn every review into an exhaustive editorial audit on form. To keep reviews feasible while improving the important parts:
- Treat FPF-governed sections and deontic requirements as the primary depth loci:
- the pattern’s Problem frame, Rationale, and worked slices when a new family, profile, or specialization would otherwise be intelligible only from project context,
- reader fit in Problem, Solution, Consequences, Rationale, and worked slices whenever the draft risks mixing user guidance with package-development rationale,
- the pattern’s Conformance Checklist (the enforceable conformance check set): keep items universal, cognitively ergonomic, not overly prohibitive, and avoid duplicating checks that belong to other patterns (modularity),
- deontic clauses (
MUST/SHALL/SHOULD/MAY) that define requirements on the authoring/validation plane (not laws of nature or mathematical facts; ensure an explicit conformance subject), - admissibility constraints (
Invariant:/Well-formedness constraint:) that define valid models (cardinality, typing/kinds, totality) and are written as non-deontic predicates (no RFC keywords inside the predicate), - definitions and mint/reuse decisions (new terms, renamed terms, scope claims baked into names, names that are not overloaded and are properly chosen),
- cross-context and cross-plane claims (Bridge hygiene and “sameness” assertions),
- SoTA (when the pattern claims state-of-the-art rather than a popular-but-outdated solution or vocabulary),
- substantive solution and locus adequacy: one reviewed-pattern-specific content pass checks whether the repaired text still solves the stated problem, assigns claim-bearing material to the correct governing loci named by value, preserves kind boundaries and selected companion or projection functions, keeps quality/projection evidence and executor/reviewer correspondence out of the pattern unless the pattern's own
EntityOfConcernand user-facing action are that evaluation/projection work, and has not become either under-grounded or over-bureaucratic, - modularity and Slot discipline of A.6.5 that provide evolvability of FPF,
- absence of contradictions in a pattern,
- Relations that define compatibility and impact radius.
- Give mechanical corrections a quick-pass when their scope is limited to the named mechanical property and their semantic and practical effects are unchanged, for example a micro-typo or heading-format correction. For live recoverability or contribution questions in stylistic or narrative rewriting, including RFC-form deontic cleanup, use the whole-span
F.19reading below. Automate a check only when the tool tests one clearly named property. A clean result closes only that property; it cannot establish semantics, ontology, practical usefulness, or source currentness. - Do not block semantic review on template and RFC compliance defects. Missing header block fields (E.8 H-5), missing canonical sections, or a missing footer marker are fixable integrity defects. Record them as repair items and continue with the FPF-governed section checks in the same run.
- Whole-span precise language. Reviewers SHOULD apply the complete connected Solution in
F.19to the selected FPF-governed span: recover meaning, test the contribution of each optional expression, and compare useful content before and after repair. Retain its precision-before-coarsening order, MG-DA cold-reader recovery with its evidence-selection and coverage conditions, and hypergeneric/specialization test. - Precision-restoration distribution must be preserved. Apply
CC-E19-21; keep only review-specific questions here and use the declared language or subject owner for the repair. - Review-specific continuity questions. Apply these to the changed claim and affected uses:
- Is the pattern's own
EntityOfConcern, first useful move, practical delta, and any action-changing applicability boundary recoverable, with its action guidance before auxiliary wording, publication, architecture-placement, package, or quality apparatus? - After wording or reference migration, does the claim still reach the same referent through the intended slot or reference position and alignment path? Record any deliberate retargeting in the governing change decision.
- When phrase apparatus, semio bias, architecture placement, package rationale, or quality apparatus changed, did the repair preserve the function that was actually needed and remove only the displaced apparatus? Name each outside definition, constraint, or test by its supplying pattern and use a formal identity only for a live distinction or named reliance.
- Do the affected current consumers still receive the intended meaning and use? Resolve semantic, mechanical, or compatibility changes in the affected sources; report unresolved conflicts rather than creating a disposition for every unaffected consumer.
- Is the pattern's own
- Use preservation and guard selection are different decisions. Always compare the admissible uses of the old and repaired claims under their governing rules, including any expansion or narrowing. The
F.19plausible-reader test decides whether an explicit description, publication-use, or non-use guard deserves mention. A justified guard still undergoes the same before/after use comparison. UseF.19and the direct owners for Method, Work, evidence, assurance, gate, status, decision, and unresolved role claims; dated Work usesCC-E19-0.
When E.21 is active, its PrecisionRestorationProfile carries the quality result; E.19 does not duplicate it.
- Design-time and run-time both count. The same precision discipline applies to FPF pattern prose and to any reviewed publication text, worked slice, or performed-work exemplar when that text is being assessed for admissibility, guidance, reuse, gating, release, policy, assurance, or action-selection use.
- Report ordering (impact-first). In run outputs and remediation direction, prioritize findings on ontology, semantic, modularity and SoTA-related FPF-governed sections first; group low-signal formatting/typos into one compact tail finding unless they change meaning.
Add risk-driven profiles
PCP‑PRAG (Pragmatic utility & adoption) — Trigger: the pattern is Normative and claims practice guidance.
Checks include: a visible first-reading recognition text early enough for a cold working reader; a recognisable first-minute working situation; one short Use this when or equivalent entry; a plain statement of what goes wrong if the pattern is missed; a plain statement of what the pattern buys in practice; the first admissible action-guiding move the user should take; a visible ordinary not this pattern when boundary; a minimally viable example; non-decorative Consequences/Anti-Patterns; at least one worked slice when the pattern is easy to misuse; a visible assurance text carrying declaration, guidance/check, modeling, and review/check scope; reader-fit consistency so that the assurance text does not silently widen or universalize the recognition-text claim; explicit practical payoff in user-facing prose; a short user-facing statement of the primary EntityOfConcern, relation record, or claim record and any minimal modeling lens when typed declaration material has FPF-governed use; nearby pairwise plain glosses for FPF-governed technical terms that appear before the heavier harness; a short working-reader implication for any SoTA-Echoing rows that carry explanatory work plus visible linkage to the worked cases or boundary slices they discipline; explicit primary working reader, concern, and viewpoint when several working-reader situations are being served; an explicit So what? adoption test; and, when the pattern claims universal or transdisciplinary reach, heterogeneous recognition-text situations adequate to the claimed breadth with F.16 preferred as the compact example-matrix template.
When admission or refresh includes precise-language repair, apply CC-E19-7a. It preserves practical guidance and the Plain/Tech relation under E.2 P-2 and E.12, with formal identity and dated-Work checks only under the conditions stated there. F.19 governs the whole-span repair; E.10 supplies compact cues and FPF routing.
For a broad cleanup across several patterns, or any cleanup that touches FPF-governed Problem frames, Problem sections, first-use recognition text, archetypal grounding, examples, or worked slices, check whether the didactic function was harmed. In inspect-repair-verify, restore the working situation, first useful move, and the definition, constraint, test, or other pattern contribution needed by the claim; in independent findings, record the exact harm and repair direction. A positive improved or preserved account is required only when another evaluation makes that value one of its substantive results, and it belongs in that evaluation.
PCP‑MOD (Modularity and abstraction-boundary discipline) — Trigger: the reviewed pattern or subset shows scope creep or abstraction-boundary mixing (e.g., one pattern bundles universal core rules with frame-specific content and discipline-specific method semantics; or it mixes EntityOfConcern, Description, and Specification positions in one object).
Checks include:
- an explicit core vs extensions cut (universal invariants are factored into one stable “core”, and extensions reference it rather than re-stating or mutating it),
- no conflation of specialization vs dependency: use
⊑/⊑⁺for refinement/extension andUsesfor pipelines; do not mix their semantics, - no conflation of package-form, concrete pattern-to-claim contribution, and package-relation functions: Pack vs Kit vs Suite vs Family vs Bundle vs Cluster vs Profile vs Overlay vs Record vs Umbrella are not interchanged, and the review states carrier status, the definition, constraint, test, or other pattern contribution actually used, and the package relation explicitly instead of leaving them implicit or varying them for style,
- description-lane descriptions and their publications do not grow mechanism semantics; for an MVPK face or projected publication form, no-new-claim checks that it introduces no claim beyond the selected episteme and no-shadow-default checks that it introduces no undeclared default. Keep the selected episteme, optional projection/construction, face, publication form, publication occurrence, rendering, and carrier distinct. The selected episteme has
U.Viewmembership only when exact E.17.0 conformance independently obtains; face status, projection, profile selection, and compliance with these two checks establish no membership or truth, - slot-discipline hygiene for any ordered specialization set: SlotKind invariance is preserved and inherited operations do not gain new mandatory inputs (A.6.5 / A.6.1 specialization discipline).
PCP‑REFRESH (Staleness & compatibility refresh) — Trigger: staleness signals are present, for example an outdated SoTA claim, a renamed or superseded relation, terminology drift, or an explicit refresh window in a current source-use, change, or decision record. Checks include:
- refresh-sensitive claims are identified and either (a) updated from the best current problem-relevant source line with matching Solution changes, or (b) explicitly scope-limited and labeled as historical lineage; source date, count, official status, or novelty alone does not establish current-best use,
- select living refresh only for a high-priority claim or pattern subset likely to change when new evidence or a changed neighbor appears. Monitor and reopen the smallest affected unit at a named trigger; return it to ordinary periodic review when continued surveillance no longer buys enough currentness for its cost,
- Relations are updated to current pattern IDs; deprecations/renames are handled via explicit continuity notes (no silent relabeling),
- when one new or substantially revised pattern subset is being prepared for send or landing, inspect the related patterns, the concrete constraints or tests they supply, companion patterns, Relations entries, and monolith-backed pattern sections that may require aligned edits. Repair an in-scope mismatch or return it as a finding. Successful alignment remains visible in the changed sources and the governing landing or release result, not in an E.19 pass recital,
- any long-lived companion, profile, check sheet, pattern-local companion row, review harness, or analogous selected non-pattern FPF kind-reference pair kept with the reviewed pattern or subset states its use question, the concrete pattern contribution or selected non-pattern FPF kind-reference pair it serves, admissible companion-only use, one real breakage if absent, and demotion or deletion condition when no such breakage exists.
- when the refresh causes Δ‑2/Δ‑3, verify that the governing change or decision result carries its actual-effect Delta-Class, actual dependent reach, and any DRR, focused verification, source-refresh, or F.9 consequence that the changed use really requires under E.15, F.15, and F.9; repair or report an omission rather than copying a successful account into E.19,
Trigger overrides are permitted but intentionally rare. Override a triggered profile only when its risk is genuinely absent in this case and a compensating check covers the live concern. When the override changes an admission, refresh, or other governing decision, place its reason in that decision basis; otherwise E.19 requires no separate positive override account.
PCP‑NORM (Normative guidance integrity) — Trigger: the pattern introduces or changes normative requirements, introduces new conformance items, or shifts downstream requirements. Checks include:
- Delta‑Class (Δ‑0…Δ‑3) and impact radius are explicit (what breaks, who depends on this),
- requirements are testable in principle (conceptually), scoped, and non-contradictory,
- downstream patterns cited in Relations are compatible with the new guidance.
- where the change is Δ‑2/Δ‑3 or a new normative pattern is being admitted: a DRR exists and references the PQG findings (pointer is sufficient; no duplicated prose).
PCP‑SOTA (Evidence and SoTA alignment) — Trigger: the pattern’s Solution asserts “best practice”, “state-of-the-art”, or introduces new synthesis claims. Checks include:
- each “best practice” claim or SoTA claim in the Solution is explicitly bound to SoTA‑Echoing rows (or to SoTA Synthesis Pack identifiers when used), rather than floating as ungrounded prescription, and those rows identify best-known current practice rather than popularity alone,
- the selected SoTA practice or source set answers the declared working problem and the relevant domain or practice tradition rather than merely justifying package placement, naming neatness, or pattern clustering,
- each SoTA row changes at least one FPF-governed outcome for the pattern: what the user may do, a source-supported applicability or reliance limit, which FPF pattern application must be named, or a claim's eligibility for a named release, policy, assurance, gate, action-selection, or adjudication use. An explicit rejected reading follows F.19's grounded-guard test,
- novel synthesis is not presented as established SoTA: it is either (a) framed as a scoped hypothesis with explicit limits, or (b) promoted into or registered as a SoTA Synthesis Pack entry before the pattern is admitted as normative guidance; a merely explanatory SoTA note that leaves the FPF-governed sections untouched is non-conforming,
- where traditions disagree substantively, the pattern makes the disagreement visible and states whether it adopts, adapts, or rejects each relevant source idea instead of silently selecting one tradition,
- retrieval or benchmark methods are used only when the relevant evidence relation is present; their dimensions do not become universal pattern-quality benchmarks,
- refresh‑sensitive claims (those likely to decay) are explicitly marked with scope limits, timespan notes, or lineage labeling when appropriate.
PCP‑BRIDGE (Cross-context or cross-plane reuse integrity) — Trigger: the pattern imports claims, terms, or norms across contexts, disciplines, or reference planes. Checks include:
- explicit Bridge usage where required (no silent identity by spelling),
- Congruence and loss are made explicit where applicable,
- any cross-plane reuse is explicitly acknowledged and its penalties do not leak into unrelated assurances.
PCP‑SUITE (Mechanism-suite integrity) — Trigger: the reviewed pattern or subset introduces or revises a suite-level Description that enumerates multiple distinct mechanisms (e.g., MechSuiteDescription or a suite specialization) and/or changes suite requirements, conformance pins, or suite protocols.
Checks include:
- the suite remains a Description-level object: it enumerates member
U.Mechanism.EntityOfConcernrefs and declares shared requirements/pins, but does not define mechanism blocks (OperationAlgebra,Transport,Audit, …) and is not used as a mechanism node, - membership has set semantics:
mechanismsis duplicates-free and order carries no semantics; any intended ordering is expressed only insuite_protocols, - suite protocols are closed over membership: if
suite_protocolsis present, each protocol step references a member mechanism (no “step points outside the suite”), - the suite is not a family of implementations: it MUST NOT be encoded as a
MechFamilyDescription(families remain “many realizations of one mechanism”, not “many mechanisms”), - the suite does not mint transport exceptions: any cross-context, cross-plane, or cross-kind requirement remains Bridge-only; loss or penalty handling stays with
R/R_effonly; the suite does not embed CL/Φ/Ψ/Φ_plane tables (references/pins only), - CG/CN authority pins remain explicit references to the single governance card and legality gate: if suite protocols include numeric comparison/aggregation/scoring, they cite
CG‑Spec(SCP + Γ-fold + MinimalEvidence) and (where applicable)CN‑Spec, rather than duplicating “local CG‑Spec-like” content, - suite protocols contain no hidden tails: if UNM/UINDM/ULSAM are required, the protocol expresses them as explicit
Usessteps and suite audit requirements cite the chosen mechanism ids/refs (no “implicit normalization/aggregation inside score/compare/select”), - gate separation is preserved: mechanisms and guards use tri-state
GuardDecision := {pass|degrade|abstain}and MUST NOT publishGateDecisionorDecisionLog;blockremains gate-level only (OperationalGate(profile)), - defaults remain single-sourced: portfolio mode, dominance regime, and unknown/failure behavior are either pinned in
TaskSignatureor one policy-assignment record, or not claimed; the suite does not define competing defaults, - when the suite claims reusable outputs, publish/telemetry is explicit and terminates via existing publication forms/faces (e.g., G.10 and/or PTM), not as a hidden tail inside a selection step.
PCP‑P2W (Planned baseline & slot-fillings seam integrity) — Trigger: the reviewed pattern or subset introduces or revises planned-filling content in one exact U.WorkPlan against an exact governed declaration member, including a publication or view of that content.
Apply the planned-filling rules in A.15.3 to the changed plan content and its affected consumers:
A.15.3:4.0–4.4govern declaration-local PlanItem content, declaration and member recovery, intended-performance and planned-value designation, target-declared cardinality, and positive intended-use meaning. Use the correspondingCC-A15.3-01andCC-A15.3-03…09questions.A.15.3:4.2,4.5, and4.6govern conditional reference/policy pins, independently established actual use, baseline-preserving comparison, and read-only publication. UseCC-A15.3-11…14for these uses.A.15.3:12a–12bsupply the ordinary A.15.2 plan-content exit and the exact missing-source blocker when reusable typed use is needed but cannot be supported.
The declaration's own pattern defines member meaning and actual-use predicates; A.15.2/A.15.3 define the planned intention. Review the use actually changed under those rules, retaining the exact declaration and WorkPlan editions on which that use relies. PCP-TERM (Terminology & naming protocol) — Trigger: the pattern introduces new terms, new U-kind pressure, new governed value names, new “unified names”, redefines existing labels, leans on FPF-governed phrases whose head kind or qualifier claim kind or admissible-use boundary is not yet restored, or uses FPF-governed trigger wording as if the word itself carried the needed kind. Checks include:
- the “mint vs reuse” decision is explicit when a term is introduced or changed,
- naming follows the local-first naming protocol and avoids scope smuggling (role-word meanings, metrics, or stages baked into labels; overloaded words used as terms with a local sense). Remediation SHOULD use F.18 when its durable-name use condition applies,
- when
F.18winner selection andA.6.Pfollow-through are both needed under their respective use conditions, treat them as one chain: inspect the candidate heads or phrases, kind conflicts, lexical conflicts, selected wording, and survival of the repaired phrase; repair a broken chain or return its exact defect rather than recording the successful chain as a pass account, - use the semantic-area cues in
E.10:0.2with F.19's whole-span reading. The accepted sentence itself or its governing declaration must make the relevant object, value frame, relation, work, authority reference, pattern application, publication kind, companion function, or conformance claim recoverable; repair or report any case where it does not, - for unresolved generic heads or claim-bearing qualifiers, and for a subsequent comparison, escalation, downgrade, or other use that puts pressure on that interpretation, apply
F.19:4's precision-before-coarsening rule, - when repaired wording still carries an architectural claim kind or admissible-use boundary, verify that the resulting primary
EntityOfConcern, first useful move, outside work, and anyE.10.ROLEdisposition or package-form decision remain recoverable in the repaired text or the decision that set the boundary; repair or report a mismatch, and - source-side old wording and continuity rules are respected. PCP‑DEONT (Deontic clause hygiene: RFC keywords) — Trigger: the pattern conflates admissibility/validity constraints with deontic obligations (e.g., uses RFC keywords where a non-deontic Invariant: predicate is required). Checks include:
- Deontic requirements are expressed with RFC-style keywords (see H-8);
- obligations are not smuggled into prose as informal imperatives. Admissibility/validity constraints are stated non‑deontically as
Invariant:/Well‑formedness constraint:predicates and referenced from the Conformance Checklist when enforceable. - Subject discipline for RFC keywords. If a sentence uses RFC keywords, its grammatical subject MUST be an agent or a published record or model whose required content is being constrained. State modeled-world admissibility or validity requirements as
Invariant:orWell-formedness constraint:predicates and reference them from CC items when needed, under E.8 H-8 andCC-SG.4.
PCP-ENTRY (Pattern-entry discoverability and entry-orientation changes) — Trigger: one change substantively affects how one reader recognizes, selects, rejects, or reclassifies one applicable direct pattern body, applicable projection function, first-entry pattern-comparison set, Problem-frame recognition signature, expanded entry-disambiguation case, or entry lexical-query cue.
Trigger classification:
PCP-ENTRY is an editorial review profile under the existing PCP family.
PCP-ENTRY is risk-triggered rather than universal.
Use one lead review profile for the change, and import other profiles only for
their specific failure mode.
Use this risk-trigger model:
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Trigger class 0 — micro-edit punctuation, formatting, typo repair, grammar, or meaning-preserving compression with unchanged pattern-selection effect. No
PCP-ENTRY, no compact pattern-local note, no evidence mode, and no parity scan are required. -
Trigger class 1 — local recognition wording repair one improved
Use this when,Not this pattern when, or one removed sequence-implying phrase with unchanged candidate-pattern set and unchanged governing-entry or applicable-projection-function boundary. Only the four-question core check is required. -
Trigger class 2 — substantive entry, companion, or projection change one new or changed README scenario, ToC query cue,
E.11entry-distribution locus,I.2expanded entry-disambiguation case, pattern, or applicable projection function newly treated as entry-bearing, one changed wrong-pattern or governing-entry or applicable-projection-function boundary, one changed local first-entry selection effect, or one substantive lexical-query cue change. The author runs the core check and adds at most one selected risk check if needed. A compact pattern-local note is conditional on the rationale need stated below. -
Trigger class 3 — multi-companion-function or high-risk public entry change one change affecting several selected projection or companion functions together, one public-entry rewrite, one often-misclassified entry-recognition function, or one newly introduced first-entry pattern-comparison set. The author runs the core check and adds only the relevant selected risk check, usually parity, wrong-pattern, public-entry, or expanded-entry-disambiguation-case adequacy.
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Trigger class 4 — retrieval-facing, observed-failure, or measured-improvement change one retrieval-facing companion or projection function changes, one observed misretrieval or repeated search failure is being repaired, or the patch itself claims measured discoverability improvement. One selected evidence mode may be required, but benchmark-style reporting is not the default.
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Trigger class 5 — normative authority, kind, or durable-name change one entry-selection split, stable-name settlement, label-family change, or other normative architectural rewrite is in scope.
DRR,PCP-TERM, andPCP-MODare the lead decision or review profiles as applicable;PCP-ENTRYreviews only the entry-facing effects.
Ordinary non-triggers include:
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punctuation, formatting, and typo fixes;
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meaning-preserving prose tightening;
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one bare mention of a pattern without changed entry-selection effect;
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local wording repair that preserves the current first honest entry-recognition function, candidate-pattern set, governing-entry or applicable-projection-function boundary, and first-entry pattern-comparison-set membership.
PCP-ENTRY reviews entry-facing effects alongside the independently applicable
PCP-PRAG, PCP-MOD, PCP-TERM, PCP-NORM, or other profile.
Its distinctive object is changed pattern-selection effect, changed first-use
entry-recognition function, changed first-entry pattern-comparison-set membership, changed tempting-wrong-pattern
boundary, changed Problem-frame recognition function, changed expanded entry-disambiguation case
effect, changed entry lexical-query cue, and changed semantic companion-or-projection function parity.
Its default review scope is one small core triggered check:
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No workflow implication Entry text does not imply mandatory sequence, control transfer, handoff, or publication, carrier, or record sequence unless another governing entry or applicable projection function explicitly governs that semantics.
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Governing-entry boundary preserved Entry, index, and lexical-query companion functions do not redefine the direct pattern body's
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First honest entry-recognition function preserved The change does not make the first entry-recognition function or case signal misleading.
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No duplicate high-detail companion or projection function The change does not create one new stale echo or one second high-detail companion or projection function outside the one applicable direct pattern body or applicable projection function already named for the claim.
A change pays only the review cost of the concern it actually changes.
Learning-order edits do not trigger PCP-ENTRY unless they also change
candidate-pattern set, governing-entry or applicable-projection-function boundary,
first honest entry-recognition function, or first-entry pattern-comparison-set membership.
Lexical-only edits do not trigger extra entry-review scope unless they change
pattern-selection effect or entry recognition.
Retrieval fixtures are not required unless retrieval-facing behavior is
explicitly claimed, one machine-consumed projection is in scope, or one
observed misretrieval is being repaired.
When the risk warrants more than that core check, the run may add only the relevant selected risk checks:
- one parity check when more than one pattern-entry discoverability-bearing projection changes;
- one wrong-pattern check when misclassification is observed or independently plausible for the intended reader under F.19's grounded-guard test;
- one lexical check when subject-language divergence is substantive;
- one expanded-entry-disambiguation-case check when
I.2changes or one high-risk first-entry pattern-comparison set still lacks depth; - one public-entry check when coarse public entry wording substantively changes entry-selection effect or carries high public-entry risk;
- one retrieval check when the change is retrieval-facing or repairs one observed retrieval failure.
Substantial discoverability changes leave one compact pattern-local note only when the governing discoverability decision needs that rationale; use the current DRR, PCP result, patch note, or other governing decision result rather than an E.19 progress record.
That pattern-local note may stop at one explicit rationale when the risk is already
controlled by governing-entry or applicable-projection-function inspection, companion-or-projection function
partition, or one local wording repair.
It is not a separate review record unless the change is high-risk, disputed,
public-facing with substantive entry risk, or retrieval-facing.
When one compact pattern-local note is needed, it names only the changed companion or projection function, the affected first-entry pattern-comparison set or pattern, the changed first-use entry-recognition function or recognition signature, the governing entry or applicable projection function for the claim or projection function, and the selected check if any.
Empirical evidence is required only when the change is:
- high-risk;
- disputed;
- retrieval-facing;
- repeatedly misclassified;
- public-facing with substantive entry-selection change, repeated failure, or one measured-improvement claim;
- or itself claims measured discoverability improvement.
PCP-ENTRY-E4 is selected only when retrieval-facing behavior is explicitly
claimed, one machine-consumed projection is in scope, or one observed
misretrieval is being repaired.
Public-facing changes with substantive entry-selection risk usually select PCP-ENTRY-E1.
Lexical-hook changes usually select PCP-ENTRY-E3.
Changes across multiple projections or companion functions usually select PCP-ENTRY-E5.
Observed search or query failures usually select PCP-ENTRY-E6, optionally
together with PCP-ENTRY-E3 or PCP-ENTRY-E4 when the failure is lexical or
retrieval-facing.
Select only evidence modes needed for the changed entry risk. An unselected mode requires no result row or durable disposition. Selected evidence modes may include:
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PCP-ENTRY-E1 — cold-reader recognition or pattern-selection task Given one real case signal, can one reader recover the intended applicable direct pattern body or one admissible candidate-pattern set? One tiny micro-task is enough. Ask for the alternative in item 2 only when an observed choice or independent local cues make it plausible for the intended reader and the distinction changes selection or use; otherwise omit that item.
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PCP-ENTRY-E2 — wrong-pattern and wrong-entry trap For an observed or independently plausible misclassification, can the reader distinguish the intended pattern, entry, or family from that alternative? Use direct problem and subject cues; add an explicit rejected alternative only when F.19's grounded-guard test warrants it.
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PCP-ENTRY-E3 — lexical query check Does subject-domain phrasing retrieve the governing entry or applicable projection function without uncontrolled aliases?
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PCP-ENTRY-E4 — retrieval or
RAGfixture Does retrieval recover the governing entry or applicable projection function under exact-ID or keyword phrasing, under semantic paraphrase phrasing, and under projection-vs-governing-entry ambiguity, while keeping retrieved companion material, source faithfulness, stale echoes, and post-rationalized citation-like material distinct from the applicable direct pattern body? Retrieval returns the governing entry or intended projection cue before one stale echo, and answer-to-governing-entry faithfulness remains intact. When thin echoes are used, check that they carry a governing-entry reference. -
PCP-ENTRY-E5 — companion-or-projection function parity check Check that one governing entry or applicable projection function stays unique and the changed companion or projection functions agree on first-use entry-recognition function, wrong-pattern boundary, projection-only status, and no claim beyond the Core pattern body's admitted use; they need not share identical wording or examples. Include any explicit absence note in that comparison; identical rows are not required either.
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PCP-ENTRY-E6 — observed failure or query-log capture Does one observed misretrieval, wrong-pattern loop, or repeated query miss still survive after the repair, or has the failure actually been removed?
Tiny golden case bank for regression and worked examples
Select a case that exercises the changed entry risk. Cases 1–4 specialize I.2.4, I.2.2, I.2.6, and I.2.3 respectively; E.11 governs the entry-distribution use, and the direct subject patterns govern the recovered claims. Cases 5–6 add search and retrieval stress under PCP-ENTRY-E1 and PCP-ENTRY-E4. Another relevant E.11/I.2 case may be used. Select empirical evidence under PCP-ENTRY; unselected cases need no run or absence note.
The tempting_wrong_pattern_or_wrong_relation column is conditional on an observed or independently plausible reader mistake that changes selection or use. Leave it unused when that condition is absent; keep the case's positive recognition and admissible stop.
In case 3, evaluate episteme identity separately under C.2.1: its discriminators are claim content, EntityOfConcern, and effective reference scheme. Changed wording or audience alone leaves that identity unchanged; a changed discriminator identifies another episteme. A.6.3.CR permits claim-preserving or explicitly loss-declared same-EntityOfConcern re-expression under its own use conditions.
Selected cases test:
- entry-recognition consistency;
- wrong-pattern or wrong-entry rejection;
- admissible entry-stop honesty;
- lexical-query discipline;
- thin-echo retrieval hygiene;
- and governing-entry and projection separation in the changed entry text.
When one empirical or retrieval evidence run is selected, keep recoverable the facts needed to understand its question and result. A structured result may use the following field names, including only those needed by that run:
When retrieval evidence is selected, keep retrieval result, answer
faithfulness, and stale-echo result distinct without forcing benchmark-style
reporting on ordinary edits.
Use the retrieval questions in PCP-ENTRY-E4, including its conditional
thin-echo reference check.
Ordinary local guidance stays prose-only rather than minting one stable
governing-entry reference by default.
Common hardening questions are triggered by review need
Open a common hardening question when the concern has FPF-governed use, is disputed, or is explicitly invoked by the reviewed pattern or subset. Inspect the relevant source and the reviewed loci. In inspect-repair-verify, repair any defect and verify the affected use; in independent findings, record the defect and repair direction. When the question reveals no defect, make no durable absence or pass recital.
Use these questions only for the selected review concern:
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Usability and working-reader fit. Open this when first-reading recognition text, assurance text, first-minute working-reader usability, practical payoff, worked slices, primary-reader fit, or
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Scenario, anti-case, and utility-fit source set. Open this when a scenario pack, anti-case corpus, pilot bank, utility tree, fitness catalog, or analogous source is actually relevant or substantively disputed. Record only a missing, misused, or failing source/case as an E.19 finding.
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Packaging, concrete pattern contribution, package relation, and shipping fit. Open this for a publication, pattern-contribution, or package-relation claim. The changed sources and governing publication or release result carry successful alignment; E.19 repairs or reports a mismatch.
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Domain-tightened profile depth. Open this when a domain-specific note actually tightens a selected profile. Apply its questions; do not add a second account of positive results.
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Accepted-decision or accepted-source-material carry-through. Open this when the reviewed pattern, subset, or current change is claimed to implement an accepted
DRR, repair findings, intake material, architecture source material, or other accepted source material named by value. Inspect each independently applicable decision against the reviewed loci and the concrete pattern, claim, companion, result, or accepted source that carries it; require exact predicate or definingClaimGraphidentity only when that decision or the named reliance needs it. Repair or report partial, missing, wrongly rejected, wrongly routed, or wrongly classified carry-through. The accepted source remains the decision source; E.19 does not duplicate decisions that are expressed sufficiently, inherited unchanged, correctly absent, or outside the reviewed subset. AnE.17.ID.CRcomparative review unit,PublicationUnit, publication form or face, source-pinned interpretation case, source material, or project-side review relation retains its own kind in that comparison. -
Decision-useful advice and evidence demands. Open this when a pattern's advice, feasibility or evidential burden is in question and can change the review result. Use
C.11.DUAto recover the demanded work, compare its attainable contribution and burden, and examine a disputed requirement's merits and force. Follow the selected method through its result, prescribed fields and stopping point: retain the useful basis and any explanation the decision or recipient needs, while inactive inquiry creates no omission account. A worthwhile evidence demand remains. ApplyF.19to wording that needs repair; this question adds no universal profile or second language pass.
For PCP-ENTRY, the ordinary compact pattern-local change note remains enough when the governed discoverability decision requires one; no separate E.19 account is created merely because the profile was checked.
Pattern-Edition Use-Value Replay
Use this replay when an exact candidate pattern edition changes materially under E.8:4.1.2. Run it once on the stable candidate before acceptance or landing, not after each edit. Start with the bounded E.8 loop over the actual predecessor and proposed prose, then open only each affected prior-edition or candidate-only use whose result can differ, pinned to its exact basis and changed locus. Treat a change as mechanical only when the smallest relevant comparison shows that every materiality value named in E.8:4.1.2 is preserved. A genuinely bounded local semantic edit opens only its affected use probe and changed wording group; physical rewrite size is not evidence.
When the candidate keeps, merges, removes, profiles, reuses, externally supplies, or omits a narrower contribution, apply the same-situation decision in E.8:4.1.3. If reuse or a gap answers the working question, verify which return is actually present: an available result of its own kind and supplying product, a MethodDescription reference, direct-source evidence, or a named unavailable result. For an external result, verify the exact result and supplying product, receiving use, practical discovery route, material currentness or availability, and the statement that it remains outside the receiving framework; state maintenance only when it changes that use. Otherwise the package still has a gap or omission. When the resulting stable set materially changes a promised problem family, verify the current E.4.DPF.DA D12 judgement for the resulting exact edition required by E.8:4.1.3. Reuse a matching current result when the exact edition, promised families, declared use, relied-on results, and relevant conditions did not change; E.19 asks for neither a duplicate package evaluation nor evidence that a revisit occurred.
Judge each affected use probe separately when its result can differ by exact predecessor or candidate-only basis, working use or relying work, expected first useful result, boundary, necessity, or evidence mode. One review may contain probes from both bases. A grouped verdict such as uses preserved or added or usability preserved cannot substitute for those judgements. E.19 does not prescribe a per-probe progress store: inspect-repair-verify repairs and verifies failed probes, while independent findings records only regressions, insufficiencies, invalid transfers, unsupported decisions, and blockers. When E.8, E.21, or another governing evaluation requires reusable dispositions or values, keep them in that evaluation's result rather than copying them into E.19 findings.
Changed-wording check inside each affected prior-edition probe. Keep the selected use probe as the outer unit. When a predecessor-bearing candidate materially rewrites a normative sentence or inseparable sentence group that carries the governed extension, action discriminator, first useful result, stop, or neighboring-pattern exit, give that wording group its applicable differential disposition below before closing the outer probe. Keep sentences together only when they serve one reader task and must receive one disposition; split them when their extension, action, result, or route can differ.
For each changed wording group:
- pin the old and candidate wording and the exact use it serves;
- state in plain language the subject, concrete action or choice, visible result, and any actual stop or exit needed by that use;
- compare the old and candidate head and modifiers, modal force, admitted referents or actions, applicability boundary under its governing rule, and local interpretation burden. Check every widening or narrowing against that rule and the accepted change decision, independently of the reader-plausibility question in the next step;
- if independent local evidence makes one rival reading plausible to the intended reader and its treatment can differ, test that exact case. Use the plausible-reader test to decide whether an explicit guard contributes to the final wording; the extension comparison remains required. Do not invent a nearest alien or excluded case merely to complete the review form; and
- apply the differential disposition.
preservedrequires no unauthorized widening or narrowing and no greater decoding burden: a reader must not need campaign memory or an ontology-development memorandum to recover the action.
For a new action-guiding paragraph with no predecessor, do not invent history or a foil. Verify that the local wording exposes a recognizable situation, concrete action or choice, visible first result, and any independently grounded applicability or neighboring-pattern boundary needed for use.
Keep the cheap path cheap. Formatting, typo, link, citation, or exact-reference corrections remain mechanical when the smallest comparison proves that no E.8:4.1.2 materiality value changed. A bounded semantic edit checks only its affected wording group and use probe. Reuse an earlier hunk or language result only when the object and compared editions, changed scope, and assurance question match this extension, modal-force, applicability, and interpretation-burden test; idea presence or broad-use preservation is not enough. This is one same-increment stable-candidate pass before acceptance or landing, not per-keystroke review, a new ledger, or a one-finding handoff.
Prior-edition differential. For one candidate pattern edition × one prior-edition use probe, distinguish the applicable disposition when the governing decision needs it:
A use classified as unsupported historical residue before replay receives no differential disposition and supports no compatibility claim. New evidence of a valid old use reopens that classification instead of restoring wording silently. A required regressed probe prevents a positive conclusion, but it does not stop inspection of the remaining independent probes.
Candidate-only adequacy. Review one candidate pattern edition × one new intended-use probe against its exact candidate-only basis, never against invented history. Distinguish these outcomes when the governing decision needs them:
A missing candidate-only decision or basis is absent or insufficient; it never licenses a fabricated prior edition. Absence for a required new use prevents a positive conclusion but does not stop the other independent probes. Absence for optional breadth is non-blocking by itself but cannot support breadth, transfer, or exceptional-expression claims. If no exact new intended use is selected, no candidate-only check opens.
Replay the positive Solution separately. Judge the following over the candidate edition when their answers can differ:
- the governed subject;
- the recurring problem and ordinary failure;
- an executable proposed move;
- a first useful result rather than completed review apparatus.
When the Solution uses a boundary or guard. Judge each guard for which independent local evidence makes the exact rival reading plausible to the intended reader and whose presence changes action. Check whether any remaining guard merely supplies the outline that the positive Solution should state directly. Refine this question by boundary whenever boundaries can pass, fail, or route independently. This guard check leaves the rule-defined extension comparison above intact.
When the Solution concerns a Method, work, or world-side change. First distinguish content that defines, constrains, tests, or guides from an assertion of one actual occurrence. Method guidance alone triggers no fictive performer or Work. When an account asserts dated U.Work, verify the §4 actual-Work account; when it asserts a world-side change, identify the change relation, the pattern that defines it, and the things it relates. Keep the intended-reader position, any qualifying A.3.2 method-description episteme, actual performer, Work, and problem-facing result separate. A literal dated-Work claim is defective if an episteme, checklist, plan, prose, or intended-reader or representation position performs Work. Judge ordinary metonymy through F.19.
Follow the short first-use rendering's action and result logic against a concrete situation. Merely finding words such as situation, move, result, or stop is not evidence. Repair each failed item or record it as an exact finding with remediation direction; do not replace the replay with one prose-quality impression.
Replay each triggered enumeration or coordination under F.19. Apply its contribution, coordination/list, and foregrounding rules in F.19:4, including the return to a defining or testing pattern when an FPF kind, relation, or structure remains hidden. Review a member separately only when its membership or contribution can fail independently or require a different repair. An unchanged series still covered by its exact rule needs no positive recital, and a blanket all lists are coherent conclusion cannot replace this reading.
Desk replay is the ordinary evidence mode for affected uses, changed wording groups, new action-guiding paragraphs, the positive Solution, and enumerations. Escalate to a cold reader, AI agent, or observed-work exercise when competing actions remain plausible, a near-miss boundary or result distinction is not recoverable by inspection, a transfer is uncertain, or a missed failure has high consequence. When a claim extends recurring applicability beyond the exact cases, do not treat three examples alone—the traditional rule of three—as validation. When the claim's value or consequence warrants it, select a proportionate qualitative practitioner survey, action-research cycle, or case study. Evidence escalation is risk-selected; it is not a universal benchmark or an ordinary-rewrite requirement. E.19 defines repair or finding outputs while leaving ordinal coordinate values and PatternQualityStatus to the full E.21 evaluation.
Decision outcomes
Complete the selected review scope before making an admission, refresh, or return-for-repair conclusion. A first defect or already-negative conclusion does not end the search for other independently obtainable findings. If a condition makes the remaining questions impossible to judge truthfully or safely, name the unexamined scope and the condition instead of presenting a partial result as complete.
Inspect, repair, and verify. Complete every in-scope review application, repair every defect through the relevant authoring work, and perform focused verification over the affected questions. The changed pattern edition and focused-verification claims are the substantive evidence and remain distinct from work; constitute one aggregate E.19 result episteme only when a receiving admission/refresh decision needs it. Record only an unresolved blocker, a decision outside current authority, or work that must transfer; do not create a parallel list retelling completed repairs.
Independent findings. Leave one compact C.2.1 findings-result episteme or handoff file containing all actionable in-scope defects and blockers, ordered by semantic impact, with repair direction precise enough that the author need not rediscover the diagnosis. If the selected questions reveal no defect, create neither an empty pass report nor positive checklist recital. The findings result is not the dated review work or an authority-bearing admission decision.
If a governing admission, refresh, E.21, DRR, publication, or release decision requires a durable conclusion or value, use its existing result. That result may cite E.19 findings or the repaired candidate; it does not turn per-question positive outcomes into a second review record.
Precision-remediation order. When a defect sentence combines a generic head, a claim-bearing qualifier, and mixed comparison-criterion pressure, remediation SHOULD follow the precision-before-coarsening rule in F.19:4. That rule supplies the head/qualifier/comparison order and the recoverable precise interpretation required for a later Plain, didactic, or coarsened restatement.
Kind-restoration verification. A wording, naming, or F.19 phrase-level repair does not succeed merely because the old trigger word disappeared. Recheck the pre-repair and post-repair kind, relation or claim kind, admissible use, and scope. If the repair narrows, widens, splits, or changes them without an accepted decision, repair it or keep the defect unresolved. The repaired object, focused verification, or governing decision carries this evidence; E.19 does not require a per-repair pass account.
Ordering and effort. Put ontology, semantics, modularity, and SoTA defects in FPF-governed sections before compact low-signal formatting findings. If semantic defects are present, address them before mechanical edits; formatting and micro-typos must not dominate the work by volume.
Archetypal Grounding — transfer across three pattern subjects
The three worked situations in §0.2 use the same review move: name the exact pattern edition and review question, apply PCP-BASE plus only the live risk profiles, inspect the complete selected scope, and either repair and recheck the defects or return one complete actionable findings set.
Transfer result. Profile selection and the two review forms transfer unchanged. Each subject keeps its own correctness question: system requirements agree with their conformance claims; episteme and publication uses keep claims, source use/currentness, publication occurrences, and carriers distinct; and Method guidance is distinguished from performed Work. A successful example from one case cannot stand in for either of the others.
Bias-Annotation
Lenses tested: Gov, Arch, Onto/Epist, Prag, Did. Scope: Universal (applies to all patterns and all clusters).
Bias risks and mitigations:
- Governance bias (Gov): reviewers may over-prioritize compliance signals and under-prioritize teaching value. Mitigation: PCP‑BASE checks didactic grounding and internal coherence and prioritizes ontology and semantics.
- Architecture bias (Arch): internal package architecture can displace the problem-owning domain or practice.
Mitigation: test EntityOfConcern, narrowed branch, and practical payoff against the domain/practice question and relevant SoTA under
CC-E19-7. - Epistemic monoculture (Onto/Epist): SoTA‑Echoing can become single-tradition name-dropping. Mitigation: use multiple traditions when the question or claimed breadth requires them; make substantive disagreement visible. Use F.18 for neutral durable naming when its use condition applies.
- Pragmatic bias (Prag): a pattern can be “correct” yet unusable.
Mitigation: consequences and anti-patterns remain mandatory sections, surfacing material costs or limitations and grounded misuse or application boundaries under
E.8; an already established boundary may be referenced. - Didactic bias (Did): narrative quality can be mistaken for truth. Mitigation: conformance and SoTA‑Echoing sections bind claims to explicit requirements and lineage.
Conformance Checklist
Common Anti-Patterns and How to Avoid Them
Consequences
Rationale
Patterns are both teaching publications and normative guidance publications. A specification that grows without explicit quality gates can become a patchwork: locally good, globally inconsistent. A profile-based gate combines a short common baseline with depth selected for the live risk and pattern kind.
The baseline profile protects cross-pattern comparability and editorial sanity. Risk-selected profiles keep depth where it matters: norms, SoTA claims, cross-context reuse, terminology changes, staleness refresh, and reader fit. A pattern that is admissible in package terms but speaks to the wrong reader is still a review defect.
SoTA-Echoing — problem-first comparison of review approaches
Working trade-off. For one exact FPF pattern edition, detect semantic, ontological, practitioner-use, and source-currentness defects without making an ordinary review cost more than its likely harm warrants. Design inference from the compared scopes: combine narrowly targeted tools, human review of contextual defects, practitioner evidence for claimed transfer, and living-guidance methods for volatile claims. The source contributions and their limits are stated separately below.
Evidence binding. If a current SoTA Synthesis Pack answers this exact review or refresh trade-off, cite it and keep this section consistent with it. Otherwise, use the source contributions below for the named review question and decision; source identity alone does not establish the quality of that decision.
Selected current front. Ordinary E.19 use combines a lightweight stable-candidate review with cheap bounded automation, then scales review depth by likely harm, novelty, reuse breadth, and source volatility. It preserves independent findings as a real review form, tests breadth with practitioner evidence only when the claim warrants it, and refreshes the smallest triggered unit. The selected trade-off avoids running questions for absent risks while retaining human judgement of semantics, practical use, and current-source decisions. Practitioner studies and continued surveillance add effort only when the claimed breadth or currentness warrants it. Reopen this choice when another approach demonstrates equal or better detection of those four defect families at lower comparable effort.
When a receiving use requires a reusable E.19 result, it states the review claim for one exact FPF pattern edition or subset. Its EntityOfConcern, ClaimGraph, scope, applicable profiles, findings or aggregate cleared boundary, conclusion, and reopen condition state that pattern-quality claim. Any project-side reuse supplies its own governing relation, evidence or assurance, and decision under the relevant project rule. Review, repair, verification, result publication, admission or refresh decision, and project-side reuse remain separately recoverable. Reopen the affected result claim when a change to the reviewed text, accepted source, SoTA grounding, related pattern contribution, selected companion or projection function, profile trigger, review boundary, or claimed downstream use can change its conclusion or applicability.
Relations
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Builds on:
E.8(authoring conventions; canonical section order; SoTA-Echoing authoring requirements)F.19(common whole-span precise-language repair, plausible-intended-reader guard test, coordination and list contribution, and local semantic reread after wording change)E.10(compact lexical cues and exact FPF routing)E.10.ARCH(deep-only ontological recovery architecture afterF.19andE.10leave an unresolved FPF object or relation)E.9(design rationale records for changes that affect semantics)E.9.DA(content-first adequacy check for one exact DRR before pattern drafting or host amendment. An ordinary bounded check returns precise findings or repaired text; a full coordinate result and exact assessment identities are added only when explicitly requested or used by a named later reliance. An E.19 finding may expose an upstream DRR defect, but an E.19 pass, return, or absence is not E.9.DA evidence.)E.22(improvement-oriented quality-evaluation question framing; distinguishes floor blocker review, exceptional-improvement review, Pareto trade-off inspection, open-question discovery, and absorption impact before an E.19 review result is formed.)E.23(repeated quality-improvement method; an E.19 profile can supply questions and findings inside such a loop, but E.23 governs repeated absorption, object-under-improvement re-evaluation, method-family selection, and stop, continue, switch-method, open-new-frame, or hold decisions.)E.15(change between exact pattern editions; actual-delta classification, affected-reach repair, predecessor preservation, and proportionate verification)A.6.5(slot discipline; SlotKind/ValueKind/refMode invariants)A.6.P(direct relation and participant recovery when the claim remains unresolved)
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Coordinates with:
A.13andA.15.1(exact actual-performer recovery and independent review, repair, or verification Work);A.2,A.2.1, andF.6only when local classification or precise assignment-bound attribution is expressly consumed;A.6.1separately defines check applications and bindingsA.3.2andE.10.ROLE(the fullU.MethodDescriptionmembership test and recovery of an ambiguous source role without forcing a system-role kind, assignment, participant, or representation position)C.2.1(finding, focused-verification, aggregate review-result, and optional record epistemes)A.10andB.3(evidence use/provenance and any assurance or reliance on an E.19 result)F.10andE.24.PUB(status use/interpretation and publication occurrence/form/carrier; neither is review work or admission authority)F.8(mint vs reuse decisions)F.18(local-first naming when one durable reusable name is needed)F.9(cross-context alignment discipline)F.15(conceptual harness and regression framing)E.17(MVPK publication and face discipline; an MVPK face, projected publication form, projection/construction, publication occurrence, rendering, and carrier remain distinct)E.17.0(independent conformance required before the selected episteme hasU.Viewmembership; E.19 profile checks and no-new-claim/no-shadow-default compliance create no membership)E.11(pattern-entry discoverability discipline, forPCP-ENTRYonly as a review hook, not as a semantic prerequisite)E.13(pragmatic utility and proxy-to-value alignment when a pattern-quality pass, score, coordinate value, checklist result, benchmark, projection signal, or release posture is being used as value evidence)E.21(scoped pattern-quality characteristic space, coordinate evidence discipline,PatternQualityStatus, and stop condition; E.19 findings may become evidence only through the exact E.21 assessment application. Final coordinate values andPatternQualityStatusbelong to a separate E.21 result episteme, not the E.19 profile or result.)A.6.7(MechSuiteDescriptionsuite-level semantics)E.20(mechanism-introduction and governing-definition changes when its trigger applies)A.15.3(SlotFillingsPlanItemP2W planned-baseline seam)G.11(refresh/decay orchestration principles, where applicable)
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Last Updated: 2026-09-10 — upstream FPF commit a87d0ef4 (github.com/ailev/FPF)