E.23:2 - Problem

FPF often improves artifacts by repeated review, repair, and re-evaluation. The loop is useful only when the changed object is evaluated again under comparable conditions, or a change of evaluation is justified for its receiving use through §4.1a. Without that discipline, repeated passes become checklist closure, agentic retry, source citation, or process state.

The loop also avoids the maturity-ladder trap. Meeting the floor or receiving all 5s supplies quality evidence within the current scope. Stopping additionally requires the practical judgement in §4.3; neither result proves that the object cannot improve.

The loop also fails when an ordinal value becomes a work target. 5 is an assigned result after measurement, not an instruction to add apparatus until a 5 can be defended. Below-floor values return a repair proposal or intended-work claim; they do not establish that Work occurred. Above-floor improvement becomes a selected proposal when the frame selects it, but the target is a substantive content improvement: stronger positive action guidance, worked slice, case and countercase coverage, source-currentness carry-through, mature-content discharge, relation cleanup, deletion of displaced apparatus, split of overloaded content, or another named content gain. Stay at 4 or no proposal is admissible only after a by-value search finds no non-dominated content improvement worth its cost under protected qualities. A selected proposal becomes neither performed Work nor actual Transformation until those independently governed occurrences obtain.

A below-floor value, finding, improvement aim, or repeated-evaluation need is not by itself an actual Problem. If one improvement use relies on an actual Problem, cite one current C.22.PFR ProblematicForRelation occurrence with its actual-condition and criterion-applicability participants and its maximal continuous adverse-episode identity. Evaluation Work, result epistemes, evidence, and loop records may support a claim about that occurrence; they neither create nor split it.