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Before selecting framework guidance, read and apply Using FPF and its DPF Suites. This instruction applies to project work, framework development, review and coordination. It explains how to find and read relevant content in the publications available to you, including when an interface cannot retrieve a large file.

When an AI agent assists you, put this requirement and the instruction’s location in your project’s AGENTS.md or equivalent instructions. If a reading test explicitly limits its reader to an isolated excerpt, use only the materials supplied for that test; do not add USING-FPF.md unless the test includes it.

FPF is designed for two complementary uses:

1. AI-native, FPF-driven engineering work. An AI agent can retrieve relevant patterns, compare their declared situations and questions, explain them in plain technical language, expose missing evidence or authority, and help produce the next useful result.
2. Description and engineering of mixed human–AI work. People can use the same language to describe which System is being changed, which Method is proposed, which Work is actually performed, which capabilities are available, what is assigned or permitted, who has decision authority, what evidence supports a claim, and what would reopen a decision.

FPF is not an agent framework, an agent runtime, or a software-coding methodology. It is a knowledge and reasoning framework that can guide work in manufacturing, construction, mechanical and electrical engineering, energy, robotics, laboratories, healthcare technology, education, embodied practice, software-intensive Systems, and other fields.