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SYSE.47:1 - Problem frame

Use this when a person or technical agent needs a practicable procedure connecting available operations, or an existing procedure repeatedly fails to use their results. A person can lose a carry between steps; an agent can retrieve the right rule again instead of acting on it. Start with the required result and the trace of the failed connection.

The subject is the operative sequence and its conditions for progress, recovery and stop. It may be a written procedure enacted by a person, a supervised sequence or a software controller that prepares requests and consumes returns. Its first result is a performable candidate with a bounded comparison, retained conditions and a usable failure return.

Keep an adequate simple procedure. A person supervising a short model/tool loop may already supply the needed control. Do not construct a larger workflow merely because several steps can be named. A missing domain operation, unknown success predicate or unsupported permission cannot be repaired by adding controller branches.