| Process brief disguised as DRR | The record explains baton movement, packet state, review timing, or current campaign state. | It describes development process rather than the FPF content decision. | Remove mutable process state and keep only the decision grounds, selected answer, alternatives, and consequences. |
| Shadow specification | The DRR becomes the only place where stable semantics, examples, source-use rules, or validation rules remain after the Core has moved. | Later FPF readers cannot use the decision because it never became pattern content. | Distribute enduring content into the selected patterns and selected non-pattern FPF kind-reference pairs; leave the DRR as provenance. |
| Four-label shell | The record has Problem frame, Decision, Rationale, and Consequences headings, but no decision grounds, use-value, alternatives, content distribution, or impact account by value. | The minimum kernel is labeled but not substantively recoverable. | Fill the decision-inspection content blocks needed for the decision, or use the lightweight variant only for true Delta-0 / Delta-1 edits. |
| Tentative carrier list | The DRR says a pattern may need work later, is most likely affected, or should be watched if touched. | A named distribution question is postponed while pretending to be decided. | Classify each named pattern or selected non-pattern FPF kind-reference pair now: selected, rejected, inherited unchanged, or outside the current decision with a named record. |
| Loss without use/reopen rule | The decision summarizes, redacts, simplifies, or otherwise declares a source-loss mode but does not state admissible use, non-admissible downstream use, recoverability, and reopen conditions. | A representation with undeclared source loss can be used as if it were the full source. | Add the source-loss and recoverability template: preserved distinctions, dropped distinctions, admissible uses, non-admissible uses, recoverability class, and reopen or stop rule. |
| Free paraphrase import | The DRR restates a source-borne method, architecture claim, accepted decision-ground item, or reusable source passage in smoother prose but does not say whether it quoted, narrowed, instantiated, used as decision grounds, turned into draft guidance, kept example-only, or retired the source use. | The paraphrase can widen, weaken, or redirect the source while appearing to preserve it. | State the source-use result and loss and addition account, or keep the passage as a quotation or an example-only source named by value. |
| Decorative SoTA appendix | Sources are listed after the fact or treated as SoTA because they are official, recent, popular, or famous, but they do not change the selected answer, boundary, or validation obligation. | The record looks researched while the decision remains unchallenged by current best-known practice. | State what each load-bearing source makes the decision adopt, adapt, or reject, why it is current under E.8, and which uncertainty would materially change the answer. |
| Negative catalogue as the decision | Discussion history, every rejected option, every Pillar, and every taxonomy lens occupy more space than the positive answer and first drafting action. | Authors must reconstruct the selected move from exclusions and ritual coverage. | Keep only alternatives and lens effects that explain the selected answer, boundary, or reopen condition. Leave the rest outside the current DRR; retain it elsewhere only when a named later use needs that history. |
| Proxy replay for a broad rule | A schema, invented fact pack, lane comparison, or checklist is used to justify a rule that will rewrite practitioner-facing hosts. | The tested proxy can stay usable while the actual host entry, action, result, or burden degrades. | Replay the complete proposed rule on an actual predecessor/proposed host pair and its true direct consumers before fanout. |
| Record as work or authority | A filled, approved-looking, published, or adequate-looking DRR is said to have made the decision, passed review, authorized Core change, or performed realization. | Method, work, result, episteme, assessment, status/authority, and downstream change collapse. | Recover only the distinctions the current claim needs; let the DRR record rather than perform them. |