FPF Reference

    First Principles Framework (FPF) - Core Conceptual Specification

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    What this page is

    This is generated FPF reference text from the specification preface or supporting sections. It helps interpret FPF; it is not FPF Reference product documentation.

    Methodology

    Use it to understand how the specification wants to be read, then return to a route, pattern, or work packet for active work. Cite generated IDs only when the wording changes the task decision.

    Content

    A standards-style pattern language for turning difficult engineering, research, management, and mixed human/AI work into explicit, reviewable, improvable reasoning.

    • Author: Anatoly Levenchuk, with AI-agent assistance
    • Version: July 2026
    • Status: Normative kernel, eternal alpha: already used in working projects and development programs, while still evolving.

    This monolith is the AI-agent and tool-assisted working specification for FPF.

    Use the Table of Content below to find pattern ids that match the project question. For any substantive answer, open the relevant pattern and apply its Problem frame, Solution, worked slices, and checklist to the project claim or object.

    The public FPF readme section after the Table of Contents provides fifteen semantic practical-use cards. The Preface explains the cross-cutting ideas and the ordinary pattern-use rhythm behind them. Pattern bodies carry the normative Solutions, boundaries, worked slices, and checks. Pattern form is governed by E.8; concrete pattern application and pattern-use coordination are governed by E.11.PUA and E.11.PUR when those relations are current.

    Last Updated: 2026-07-12 — upstream FPF commit 44dd8818 (github.com/ailev/FPF)