C.22.2:15 - SoTA Decision-Use Source Material

The following external anchors are adopted or adapted only where they change this pattern’s local answer by value.

Current source or relation line	Reference	Pattern use	Disposition
Problem framing turns an ill-structured situation into a solvable design problem and requires care because “framing” is ambiguous.	2025 CEEA paper “Towards a Theoretical Framework of Framing in Engineering Design”, `https://doi.org/10.24908/pceea.2025.19713`	Contributes deconfliction of symptom, situation, framed problem representation, and task.	Adopted as field and kind-recovery cue; wording is expressed in current FPF terms.
Strategic problem framing distinguishes symptoms and attention allocation from causal problem formulation.	2025 Organization Science article “Looking at the Trees to See the Forest: Construal Level Shift in Strategic Problem Framing and Formulation”, DOI suffix `2024.19134`, `https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2024.19134`	Motivates the fields for problem signal, problem hypothesis/cause-theory cue, and improvement check.	Adapted; causal claims still apply `C.28` plus evidence, provenance, or assurance patterns when current.
QD and OEE work motivates collections, fronts, archive retention, set-return, and non-single-winner treatment.	2026 survey “A survey on Quality-Diversity optimization: Approaches, applications, and challenges”, `https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210650225003979`; QD-as-MOO reference `https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.00478`	Motivates set-source-reference and Goldilocks docking into current `C.18`, `C.19`, `G.5`, `G.9`, `G.11`, `A.6.P:7a`, and `C.16.Q`.	Adopted as field and relation cue; no local QD or OEE vocabulary or scalar readiness score is introduced.
Open-ended coding agents use archives, self-improvement, problem variants, evaluator feedback, and stepping-stone retention.	Darwin Godel Machine `https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22954`, FrontierSmith `https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.14445`, and AlphaEvolve `https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13131`	Contributes record-form, set-source reference, Goldilocks, safe-probe, and freshness fields and relation references for archive, problem generation, safe probes, evaluator feedback, no-change and abstain dispositions, and autonomy and evidence boundaries.	Adapted as recent trend cue; `C.22.2` is not turned into AI-agent doctrine or an AI-agent management pattern.
External AI-agent and autonomy practice more often makes evidence, log, gate, autonomy-budget, and update-discipline claims current.	Presented material plus current FPF autonomy, evidence, and gate patterns	Motivates subject-pattern assignment for validation, AI-agent cues, and safe probing.	Non-FPF-governed for the center of `C.22.2`; FPF-governed content remains with `E.16`, `A.21`, `A.10`, `G.6`, `B.3`, `A.15`, and `G.11`.

If a C.22.2 use carries a wider external claim than these dispositions, the claim is outside this pattern and requires a separate content decision or demotion to a non-FPF-governed example.

Each FPF-governed SoTA use is recovered as a local test: source idea, FPF invariant, practitioner check, and popular shortcut rejected. A source citation without that local test is not enough to carry pattern use.

Local SoTA-to-action tests:

Source or relation cue	Popular shortcut rejected	Required local result	Reopen condition
Problem framing is ambiguous and abstraction shifts matter.	Symptom, root-cause story, request, or ticket is treated as the problem.	Recover signal, framed problem representation, EntityOfConcern, effective ReferenceScheme, ClaimScope, viewpoint qualification, improvement check, and rival formulation when current.	Reopen when scheme, scope, viewpoint, rival formulation, evidence need, or improvement or acceptance probe changes.
P2W uses only a reviewable problem-side record.	`P2W-ready` is treated as Work authorization, gate passage, method selection, evidence proof, assurance, or selected solution.	State problem-formulation follow-up reason, validation boundary, readiness disposition, retained P2W use, blocked attempted use, and subject-pattern cue when an outside claim is current.	Reopen when the signal, EntityOfConcern, ReferenceScheme, ClaimScope, acceptance probe, follow-up reason, validation boundary, freshness, or named outside claim changes.
QD, OEE, and set-return work produce archives, fronts, pools, and selected sets.	Priority score, single winner, local problem portfolio, or local selected-set claim.	Preserve `sourceSetRef`, source set kind, selection or retention criterion, and a non-scalar next use; apply the governing set, parity, archive, pool, or refresh pattern when current.	Reopen when the source set, retention criterion, parity relation, archive, pool, front, selected set, budget, window, or freshness disposition changes.
Open-ended agents, problem variants, evaluator feedback, and stepping stones change signal interpretation.	Agent output, evaluator trace, or generated variant is treated as enough to act.	Record generator, evaluator, variant, or stepping-stone reason source only as a problem-side cue; name validation, freshness, and pattern reference named by value before probe or action.	Reopen when generator, evaluator, variant, stepping-stone reason source, safety condition, probe condition, or pattern reference named by value changes.
First-principles or mathematical structure can improve formulation.	A named formalism or mathematical or ontological prestige is treated as adequacy or rigor.	Record the candidate structure, either its relation to the problem-side EntityOfConcern or the `C.29` mathematical-lens-use relation, preserved and lost structure when current, practical formulation payoff, problem-formulation follow-up reason, and stop condition.	Reopen when candidate structure, preserved or lost structure, problem-formulation follow-up reason, stop condition, or `C.29` result changes.
Early class or kind taxonomy looks available.	A class list or ontology-first taxonomy is treated as the problem formulation.	Keep the formulation question current; record candidate structure, preserved and lost structure when current, and representation or retargeting relations before freezing kind structure.	Reopen when formulation question, kind structure, relation, representation-transition relation, or retargeting relation changes.
Object model looks clarifying.	Object-model clarity freezes the wrong EntityOfConcern or relation.	Keep EntityOfConcern and relation reviewable; name representation-transition, retargeting, or bridge relation references before reusing a local cue or readiness disposition.	Reopen when EntityOfConcern, relation, view, bridge relation, or representation-transition relation changes.