#One-Minute Example

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#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

A platform team asks:

Should we buy, fine-tune, or build an agent stack for our product?

Without FPF, the conversation often mixes architecture, vendor comparison, safety, evidence, budget responsibility, user value, and implementation planning. The loudest option can win before the team knows what is being compared.

With FPF, the first pass can become a small set of explicit project objects:

• architecture question: what stack architecture is being changed or chosen;
• comparison frame: which alternatives are in the candidate set;
• evaluation characteristics: cost, latency, controllability, safety, maintainability, time to first use, and other project-specific characteristics;
• evidence gaps: what must be tested before commitment;
• current choice state: whether the team is choosing now, keeping a selected set, or doing more discovery;
• reader reliance: what engineering, management, and assurance readers may responsibly rely on.

That same shape can be used for a factory modernization, laboratory protocol, construction design change, supply-chain decision, safety case, or research program. The point is not the AI topic; the point is one body of reasoning that can be reviewed, improved, and published without changing meaning on the way.

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