Unit	Reader use
Readme — Problem Structuring and Decision Support	Find a direct first result and an honest stop for the question at hand.
Citation	Cite the framework or one pattern with its author, release date and publication address.
Preface	Understand how to combine qualified results while each supplying practice remains responsible for its conclusions and the authorized chooser makes the decision.
Development-direction advising	Compose development-direction advice from qualified holder-specific results.
Construct a Bounded Development Opportunity	Construct a useful conditional opportunity before a result is settled, without requiring an adviser.
Cross-pattern applications	Follow the contested flood, development-direction and report handoff uses with their scope and source limits.
Framework boundary, sources and refresh	Find the covered problem families, external returns, source arguments and affected-refresh conditions.
Source responsibility and references	Read the advising sources, their qualification dates and limits without a separate working file.

Part I — Engagement, Participation, Formulation and Boundary

§	ID & Title	Status	Keywords & Search Queries	Dependencies
1	PSD.1 - Bound the Decision-Support Engagement and Authority Boundary	Candidate	engagement, authority, recipient. What advice is needed, for whom, and who makes the later choice?	FPF A.15.9, A.10, C.11; PSD.2–PSD.4 when participation, formulations or scope remain live.
2	PSD.2 - Recover Participants, Concerns, and Affected Systems for a Decision-Support Inquiry	Candidate	participants, concerns, affected Systems. Whose consequential concern or absence could change the inquiry?	Uses the bounded PSD.1 question; FPF A.1.CSD for consequence-bearer discovery.
3	PSD.3 - Generate Plural Problem Formulations	Candidate	plural formulations, framing, disagreement. Which different accounts imply different inquiries or interventions?	PSD.1 and PSD.2 when their results are needed; FPF C.17 and C.18 only for their direct objects.
4	PSD.4 - Set and Reopen the Problem Boundary	Candidate	boundary, exclusions, scope, revision. What is the smallest usable cut, and what would reopen it?	An adequate formulation and bounded engagement; PSD.1–PSD.3 for their live questions; FPF A.2.6 for exact scope membership when required.

Part II — Models, Methods and Facilitated Inquiry

§	ID & Title	Status	Keywords & Search Queries	Dependencies
5	PSD.5 - Construct Complementary Situation and Option Models	Candidate	complementary models, questions, assumptions, losses. Which model supports which claim, and where does the join fail?	Qualified inquiry inputs; FPF A.1.1, C.29 and A.10; PSD.6 or PSD.7 for their live questions.
6	PSD.6 - Select Problem-Structuring Methods and Combine Them When Needed	Candidate	problem-structuring Methods, fit, combination. Which reusable way supplies the missing contribution under these conditions?	PSD.1; PSD.5 and PSD.7 when joined; FPF A.3.1, A.3.2 and B.1.5 for their exact claims.
7	PSD.7 - Facilitate Decision-Support Inquiry and Preserve Material Dissent	Candidate	facilitation, attribution, meaning, dissent. What can participants recognize and what remains materially contested?	PSD.2–PSD.4 when live; FPF A.2.9; specialist truth and authority remain direct returns.

Part III — Alternatives, Values, Uncertainty, Consequences and Robustness

§	ID & Title	Status	Keywords & Search Queries	Dependencies
8	PSD.8 - Generate Decision Alternatives	Candidate	alternatives, mechanisms, staged directions. Which live candidate differs materially from the incumbent?	Bounded engagement and formulation inputs; FPF C.17, C.18 and C.38 only when their results are needed.
9	PSD.9 - Represent Values and Trade-Offs	Candidate	values, objectives, trade-offs, compensation. Which distinctions matter, and what must a score not compensate away?	PSD.8 and PSD.11 inputs where needed; FPF A.19 and C.16 for applicable space or measurement claims.
10	PSD.10 - Represent Decision-Relevant Uncertainty and Evidence Limits	Candidate	uncertainty, evidence, scenarios, information. Which unknown can change eligibility, comparison or the current return?	Uses actual candidate and consequence questions; FPF A.10 for reliance and C.11 for later probe choice.
11	PSD.11 - Compare Consequences of Decision Alternatives	Candidate	consequences, interactions, partial comparison. What follows under the stated configuration, and what comparison is warranted?	Qualified PSD.8–PSD.10 inputs; FPF C.11.CRC and A.19.CPM for their direct comparison contributions.
12	PSD.12 - Test Robustness and Sensitivity of Decision Alternatives and Their Comparison	Candidate	robustness, sensitivity, reversals, information value. Under which justified conditions does the result hold or reverse?	Qualified comparison inputs; PSD.10 for unresolved evidence; FPF C.11 for an actual probe choice.

Part IV — Recommendation, Follow-up and the Development of Practice

§	ID & Title	Status	Keywords & Search Queries	Dependencies
13	PSD.13 - Prepare and Return a Decision-Support Recommendation	Candidate	recommendation, retained set, request, blocker, abstention. What can responsibly be returned now without taking the choice?	PSD.1 and the qualified contributing PSD.8–PSD.12 results; FPF A.15.9, A.10 and C.11.
14	PSD.14 - Arrange Decision Follow-up or Reassess Advice After a Change	Candidate	follow-up, observation, interpretation, change. Which relied-on premise changed, and which advice must be reconsidered?	PSD.13 when recommendation follow-up is live; FPF A.10 for one known reliance; A.10.1 when a changed source requires discovering and revalidating several uses; G.11 for currentness; direct subject or service guidance for its own question.
15	PSD.15 - Decide Whether and How to Change Problem-Structuring and Decision-Support Methods	Candidate	Method repertoire, fit, evidence, source refresh. Which offering should be retained, changed, tested or retired?	PSD.6 and actual follow-up evidence; direct Method-engineering and evidence results when required.
16	PSD.16 - Reconcile Simultaneous Problem-Structuring and Decision-Support Work	Candidate	simultaneous inquiry, coupling, interference, facilitation. Which arrangement preserves a threatened result at acceptable burden?	PSD.5–PSD.7 where their contributions interact; FPF C.32.MWA for needed several-structure synthesis.
17	PSD.17 - Deliberately Continue and Change Problem-Structuring and Decision-Support Culture	Candidate	cultural continuation, interpretation, retention, mediation. What changes across practitioners beyond publication or local performance?	PSD.15 and PSD.16 when current; FPF C.20 and C.36 for their direct cultural claims.

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