E.4.FPF:9 - Consequences

FPF adoption becomes easier to reproduce because authors can build Readme, Preface, ToC, and pattern-body publication units; arrange them in all-in-one or split forms; bear those forms on exact files, sites, volumes, or bundles; and provide skill, MCP, search, or retrieval access without changing what FPF is. The same declaration keeps FPF’s few direct and cross-pattern examples, their forms, and the two reading-burden limits aligned across authoring, assembly, and validation. Explicit non-exhaustive wording lets the examples promote pattern-language use without turning the Readme into a catalogue or forcing a card onto every entry.

The cost is one extra distinction for stewards: whole-FPF form is not the same problem as DPF authoring, package adequacy, individual pattern quality, or first-entry publication. That cost is acceptable because those problems have different evidence and failure modes.