fpf-problem-solving

First Principles Framework (FPF) Library

A transdisciplinary architecture for reasoning — an "Operating System for Thought" that turns raw intelligence, human or machine, into organisationally usable reasoning: bounded contexts, auditable artefacts, multi-view descriptions and disciplined hand-offs.

The Library has two layers, both stored locally:

• FPF Core (sections/) — transdisciplinary patterns with IDs such as A.7, C.11.DUA, F.19.
• 36 domain frameworks (DPFs) (dpfs/) — methods of one field, with IDs such as GOALS.7, STR.18, RMP.7, most of them grouped into four Suites (Management, Engineering, Foundational Thinking, Human Capability Engineering). A DPF method builds on the Core patterns it names.

When to use

Use FPF whenever you need to think more rigorously than the situation's default:

• Apply a named FPF or DPF pattern (F.19, C.11.DUA, GOALS.7) to the current text, answer or task
• Repair a recurring trouble in work with an agent: hedging instead of judgment, a lost original question, restarting after a handoff, look-alike alternatives, a plan passed off as done work
• Answer a field question — strategy, OKR, operations, research, engineering, teaching — with that field's framework
• Decompose a messy, cross-domain problem; identify the system that acts or changes; keep a plan, a description and a running system apart
• Decide under uncertainty: real alternatives, quality defined before comparing, causal claims checked, a decision reconsidered when its basis changes
• Find, qualify, steer or improve a way of working: methods, the next action, resuming work, removing ceremony, checklists, capability
• Architect systems and compare structures; rewrite, shorten, explain or publish an account without losing what matters
• Check sources and evidence: what to read, what an author means, whether a source supports the claim

How to navigate

Paths are relative to this skill's directory. One script resolves every reference and says where to start: