FPF Reference

    When Several Transformation Flows Form One Network

    Preface node heading:when-several-transformation-flows-form-one-network:698

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    Inspect E.18.NET when the current question joins independently identified transformation-flow structures through exact direct relation occurrences. Several stages, several paths, or several valuations of one flow do not make a network.

    • Build the builder. A compiler-source-change flow, a bootstrap-compiler build flow, an application build flow, and a deployment-and-operation flow keep their own changes, work, positions, and local state. Recover the project's exact relation that says which executable compiler is used for the application build and its exact delivery relation to deployment. A selected tool-build network can itself be a member of a selected release network; follow a finite member path rather than inventing “level 2” and “level 3” kinds. Inspect E.18.NET; if the case is only one flow with several stages or valuations, stay in E.18.
    • Change a product and its production system. Product-development Work changes and verifies the product definition; production-system-change Work redesigns, retools, and qualifies equipment; production Work makes units; operation supplies observations that may inform later product-development Work. Treat their transformation-flow structures as separately identified selected structures: the structures organize positions and exact relations but do not perform the Work. Keep the product and production system distinct, and recover the exact release, readiness, production, and observation relations needed by the current case. A selected product-development network and a selected production-system-change network can be members of a larger selected network without becoming one giant flow. Inspect E.18.NET; if only one architecture correspondence is current, use its direct architecture pattern instead.

    When the immediate question is whether dated Work actually occurred or whether an entity was actually produced, leave the network overview and apply the tests in a finite order. First A.13 recovers every actual performer System's core: exact admitted System, local agential kind and criterion, classification, obtaining assignment for the scope, working situation, and window, and adequate core evidence; add a characteristic profile only when conditionally consumed. Next A.15.1 independently admits one U.Work occurrence from the exact performance history, at least one Method actually followed, temporal extent, and at least one obtaining locally declared containing-System relation. That admission neither assumes nor requires F.6. Only afterward, when the receiving use needs precise assignment-bound performer attribution, F.6 tests performedUnderAssignment through the same obtaining A.13 assignment, direct case fact, holder equality, declared species and participants, and coverage. If that relation is unresolved, retain the admitted Work and lower only the attribution. A compact attribution sentence may omit an assignment identifier that its receiving use does not need; the omission changes only the sentence, not those facts. A log, ticket, or record creates neither Work nor attribution. After that Work and the required participant facts are exact, A.15.PROD separately tests the Work's participation in producing the entity, the start of that entity's identity, and production completion. Missing agency basis, Work granularity, production-participation predicate, identity-specification or inception basis, completion criterion or applicability, boundary or composition facts, or required substrate is a branch-local blocker. Actual change, output or result, identifier allocation, evidence, delivery, and acceptance remain separate claims and none proves those three production claims by itself.

    Last Updated: 2026-09-03 — upstream FPF commit b999972c (github.com/ailev/FPF)