Draft arguments extracted for conceptual review. Required evidence holes and proposed peer links remain unratified. These files have not been admitted to the pattern library or used to dispatch work.
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Independent arguments for conceptual review. These are authored draft
extractions, not validated solutions or execution instructions. Required evidence
holes remain explicit. Cross-references are proposed peer connections (@see-also),
not assertions that AIF formulas, historical deployment claims or parameter choices
have been adopted. No @why authority edge is invented.
pattern-before-operation: agent/handoff-preserves-context, aif/declare-the-conditioning. The first supplies the concrete pattern; the second supplies fit-to-situation rather than form-only valuation.
composition-changes-the-problem: aif/candidate-pattern-action-space, agent/evidence-over-assertion. Candidate construction is relevant background; a bounded list of pattern IDs does not itself constitute the required cascade policy.
separate-design-from-use: aif/declare-the-conditioning, aif/hierarchical-and-temporal-depth. Reuse conditioning and grain distinctions; no claim that the existing timescale machinery implements design-time scoring.
partial-design-without-imaginary-completion: aif/temporal-depth-beyond-greedy, aif/declare-the-conditioning. Depth motivates considering consequences beyond one step; it does not authorize a new formula for partial-cascade G.
References resolve against futon3/library/; the collection stays beside its blog source until reviewed. Admission into the library graph, edge attestation and runtime use have not occurred.
Connect Preference Members Without Collapsing Their Grains. Conditioning motivates explicit domains; the existing pattern does not instantiate FoldC or the required family.
Preserve the Whole Policy Through Comparison and Choice. Candidate and choice mechanisms are relevant; pattern IDs or temperature alone do not supply complete policy identity.
Attribute the Organiser’s Change Against Its Input. Declared relations and judged edges support review; they do not replace the specific ruled organiser carrier or O3/admittedBy obligations.
@flexiarg wm-pattern-design/pattern-before-operation @title Recover the Problem Behind the Operation @style pattern @grade technique @draft codex-28-narrative-extraction-2026-09-15 @audience War Machine designers and conceptual reviewers @provenance p4ng/wm-walkthroughs/02-patterns-and-g.md; section: A pattern is more than a named operation; sha256: b67bc43409a8e1459947e9f6410517546be527d56240682aee68a24b85794932 @see-also agent/handoff-preserves-context aif/declare-the-conditioning ! conclusion: Recover the Problem Behind the Operation. + context: An author reconstructs an existing capability using a pattern language. + IF: The proposed cascade consists of code operations renamed as patterns. + HOWEVER: The diagram explains control flow while leaving the recurring problem, competing concerns and design rationale unstated. + THEN: For each proposed pattern use, identify the problem situation, the tension it addresses and how its response changes that situation. Read the actual pattern text and relevant uses. Keep code operations as operations until their relation to a pattern is argued. + BECAUSE: A successful operation can fail to realize a pattern when it omits the reason that operation was needed. + example: Illustrative, not an executed result. A HANDOFF node that writes a conclusion without uncertainty or evidence does not realize Handoff Preserves Context. + reference-scope: The first supplies the concrete pattern; the second supplies fit-to-situation rather than form-only valuation. ? evidence(required): No independent use evidence or attestation is claimed. The blog is the source of this proposed argument, not validation of its response. + NEXT-STEPS: Conceptual review question: Can the design rationale be explained without pointing at the code diagram? No implementation or dispatch is authorized by this draft.
@flexiarg wm-pattern-design/composition-changes-the-problem @title Explain What the Next Pattern Changes @style pattern @grade technique @draft codex-28-narrative-extraction-2026-09-15 @audience War Machine designers and conceptual reviewers @provenance p4ng/wm-walkthroughs/02-patterns-and-g.md; section: Walk through an authoring decision; sha256: b67bc43409a8e1459947e9f6410517546be527d56240682aee68a24b85794932 @see-also aif/candidate-pattern-action-space agent/evidence-over-assertion ! conclusion: Explain What the Next Pattern Changes. + context: An agent extends or revises a design using several patterns. + IF: Two individually plausible patterns interact in the same mission. + HOWEVER: Independent pattern scores ignore how one response creates the conditions or evidence needed by another. + THEN: Describe the initial design failure and show how the proposed addition changes another pattern’s applicability or outcome. Compare an alternative arrangement and a redundant addition. Ground the links in actual texts and mission uses before evaluating the composed policy. + BECAUSE: The value of the arrangement depends on interactions that are absent from a list of isolated merits. + example: Illustrative, not an executed result. Evidence discipline changes which conclusion a handoff can responsibly transmit; a second unchanged review may add no useful distinction. + reference-scope: Candidate construction is relevant background; a bounded list of pattern IDs does not itself constitute the required cascade policy. ? evidence(required): No independent use evidence or attestation is claimed. The blog is the source of this proposed argument, not validation of its response. + NEXT-STEPS: Conceptual review question: What interaction would disappear if the same pattern titles were arranged differently? No implementation or dispatch is authorized by this draft.
@flexiarg wm-pattern-design/separate-design-from-use @title Distinguish Authoring a Design from Running It @style pattern @grade technique @draft codex-28-narrative-extraction-2026-09-15 @audience War Machine designers and conceptual reviewers @provenance p4ng/wm-walkthroughs/02-patterns-and-g.md; section: Keep authoring and running separate; sha256: b67bc43409a8e1459947e9f6410517546be527d56240682aee68a24b85794932 @see-also aif/declare-the-conditioning aif/hierarchical-and-temporal-depth ! conclusion: Distinguish Authoring a Design from Running It. + context: G is proposed as a way to compare rational reconstructions of a capability. + IF: The same design will later operate on different input situations. + HOWEVER: A walkthrough can mistake the construction of the program for runtime rewiring and give the model the wrong action space. + THEN: State what is being edited during authoring and what remains fixed during execution. Define the conditioning situation and outcomes at each grain separately. Demonstrate variation due to input data without asserting that the pattern arrangement was redesigned. + BECAUSE: The model needs to evaluate the decision actually being made, not another process sharing the same vocabulary. + example: Illustrative, not an executed result. Writing a handoff procedure once is different from applying it to two disputed claims on different days. + reference-scope: Reuse conditioning and grain distinctions; no claim that the existing timescale machinery implements design-time scoring. ? evidence(required): No independent use evidence or attestation is claimed. The blog is the source of this proposed argument, not validation of its response. + NEXT-STEPS: Conceptual review question: Is this choice changing a design, selecting a use of it, or responding inside one use? No implementation or dispatch is authorized by this draft.
@flexiarg wm-pattern-design/partial-design-without-imaginary-completion @title Evaluate a Partial Design Honestly @style pattern @grade technique @draft codex-28-narrative-extraction-2026-09-15 @audience War Machine designers and conceptual reviewers @provenance p4ng/wm-walkthroughs/02-patterns-and-g.md; section: Keep authoring and running separate; sha256: b67bc43409a8e1459947e9f6410517546be527d56240682aee68a24b85794932 @see-also aif/temporal-depth-beyond-greedy aif/declare-the-conditioning ! conclusion: Evaluate a Partial Design Honestly. + context: A design must be evaluated while its pattern composition is still incomplete. + IF: An author wants G to guide additions, revisions or stopping. + HOWEVER: A score may assume a perfect missing continuation; a greedy extension rule may also miss two additions that only help together. + THEN: Declare what stopping at this partial design means, which continuations are modeled and what remains unknown. Compare alternative revisions and interacting additions where warranted. Do not infer a complete search algorithm merely from the objective of minimizing G. + BECAUSE: Comparison of partial designs is meaningful only when their incompleteness is part of the model rather than silently repaired. + example: Illustrative, not an executed result. Gathering a missing result and revising the handoff may be useful together even when either alone leaves the successor unable to proceed. + reference-scope: Depth motivates considering consequences beyond one step; it does not authorize a new formula for partial-cascade G. ? evidence(required): No independent use evidence or attestation is claimed. The blog is the source of this proposed argument, not validation of its response. + NEXT-STEPS: Conceptual review question: What assumptions about the unfinished part make this partial score possible? No implementation or dispatch is authorized by this draft.
@flexiarg wm-pattern-design/preference-family-needs-composition @title Connect Preference Members Without Collapsing Their Grains @style pattern @grade technique @draft codex-28-checklist-pattern-gap-2026-09-15 @audience War Machine designers and conceptual reviewers @provenance Checklist revision 4 (WM-06/WM-13/R19), p4ng b2c7d1d; added during Joe's requested indicative-pattern mapping, not observed use. @see-also aif/declare-the-conditioning ! conclusion: Connect Preference Members Without Collapsing Their Grains. + context: A system has terminal preferences and needs preferences at other grains or times. + IF: A terminal seed or generic family type is offered as the whole preference construction. + HOWEVER: The available member does not specify intermediate concerns, lawful composition or which combined preference actually governs a choice. + THEN: Declare each member’s grain, time, outcome domain and revision authority. Explain the processual-to-terminal connection and the actual ordered composition, including support and provenance at the consumer. Preserve unknown members instead of inventing weights or treating one packet’s terminal scope as a global exemption. + BECAUSE: A family supports coherent choice only when its members and their connections have meanings compatible with the predicted outcomes. + example: Illustrative only. An empty-layer identity cannot establish a runtime fold that declares two nonempty layers. + reference-scope: Conditioning motivates explicit domains; the existing pattern does not instantiate FoldC or the required family. ? evidence(required): This is an unreviewed design argument. No implementation, attestation or successful use is claimed. + NEXT-STEPS: Who can revise each member, and what evidence identifies the composed preference actually consumed? Conceptual review only; no build dispatch.
@flexiarg wm-pattern-design/same-policy-through-comparison @title Preserve the Whole Policy Through Comparison and Choice @style pattern @grade technique @draft codex-28-checklist-pattern-gap-2026-09-15 @audience War Machine designers and conceptual reviewers @provenance Checklist revision 4 (WM-11), p4ng b2c7d1d; added during Joe's requested indicative-pattern mapping, not observed use. @see-also aif/candidate-pattern-action-space aif/policy-precision-commitment-temperature ! conclusion: Preserve the Whole Policy Through Comparison and Choice. + context: A selector compares several interpreted designs for the same work target. + IF: Priors, applicable observed-data terms and the choice rule refer to candidate policies. + HOWEVER: Collapsing candidates to their shared mission ID erases the design differences, while prior-only evidence can be misreported as a posterior. + THEN: Carry full candidate identity, interpretation, precedence and model bindings through prediction, prior, applicable F, posterior and choice. Account for every candidate and preserve the selected-to-enacted correspondence. Keep fuel accounting distinct from variational F and subject to its own authority. + BECAUSE: A comparison is only about those policies if every term and the resulting action still identify the same distinct alternatives. + example: Illustrative only. Two handoff designs for one mission must remain distinguishable after posterior normalization. + reference-scope: Candidate and choice mechanisms are relevant; pattern IDs or temperature alone do not supply complete policy identity. ? evidence(required): This is an unreviewed design argument. No implementation, attestation or successful use is claimed. + NEXT-STEPS: Can two different cascades with the same target receive separate terms and retain their identity after selection? Conceptual review only; no build dispatch.
@flexiarg wm-pattern-design/attribute-organising-change @title Attribute the Organiser’s Change Against Its Input @style pattern @grade technique @draft codex-28-checklist-pattern-gap-2026-09-15 @audience War Machine designers and conceptual reviewers @provenance Checklist revision 4 (WM-09), p4ng b2c7d1d; added during Joe's requested indicative-pattern mapping, not observed use. @see-also cascades/declared-skeleton cascades/edges-earn-permanence ! conclusion: Attribute the Organiser’s Change Against Its Input. + context: An organiser changes an attributed pattern structure under a ruled carrier. + IF: The result is presented as a justified cascade change. + HOWEVER: Comparing only the output with itself hides what was added, which earlier nodes persisted and whether provenance belongs to this organiser. + THEN: Retain the pre-existing structure, declared edits and node/edge attribution; evaluate the required laws on the populations they quantify over, including nodes the organiser did not add. Bind the interpretation and executable change to that same account rather than treating any valid graph as the ruled operation. + BECAUSE: Properties about an organiser’s contribution require a before/after boundary and attribution, not only a well-formed output. + example: Illustrative only. A preservation condition over previously present nodes cannot be tested only on newly introduced nodes. + reference-scope: Declared relations and judged edges support review; they do not replace the specific ruled organiser carrier or O3/admittedBy obligations. ? evidence(required): This is an unreviewed design argument. No implementation, attestation or successful use is claimed. + NEXT-STEPS: Which nodes were not added by this organiser, and where is their required property checked? Conceptual review only; no build dispatch.