FPF Reference

    8. Use causal explanations, interventions, responsibility, and model outputs safely

    Preface node heading:8-use-causal-explanations-interventions-responsibility-and-model-outputs-safely:531

    What this page is

    This is generated FPF reference text from the specification preface or supporting sections. It helps interpret FPF; it is not FPF Reference product documentation.

    Methodology

    Use it to understand how the specification wants to be read, then return to a route, pattern, or work packet for active work. Cite generated IDs only when the wording changes the task decision.

    Content

    Use this when a project says that one thing causes another, a model output justifies an action, a change will produce an effect, or a role is responsible for an outcome.

    FPF helps you separate causal use, counterfactual use, intervention claims, responsibility claims, model-output reliance, evidence, and decisions. It keeps a plausible explanation, prediction, or dashboard output from becoming permission to act.

    Typical first result: a causal-use or model-output-use note that names the claim, the intervention or counterfactual being considered, the evidence or validation still needed, the responsibility limit, and the decision or work that remains blocked.

    First inspect: C.28, A.10, B.3, A.20, A.21, C.11, and the domain pattern that governs the affected thing.

    Last Updated: 2026-06-17 — upstream FPF commit 646b0b9b (github.com/ailev/FPF)