# Schema and source preparation review

Date: 2026-09-24 · Reviewer: codex (self-review)

## Schema decisions

The working 0.1 contract resolves the initial review's representation issues:

- Stable FEP-NNNN pattern identities independent of mutable family/scale labels.
- Editorial status separated from evidence maturity; seed remains a catalog label.
- Explicit scale lists and registered kebab-case force IDs.
- Conditions in prerequisites; pattern dependencies use typed requires edges.
- Typed relation targets with justification and local evidence references.
- Source IDs, review paths and claim labels form a traceable citation chain.

The isolated synthetic examples exercise two pattern IDs, a relation endpoint,
force lookup and a source/review/claim reference. No example becomes a corpus
pattern. `make schema-test` checks agreement and resolution. A comprehensive
validator and migrations for future versions remain in FEP-WP-0004.

Outcome for FEP-WP-0002-T01: complete. This settles serialization for the first
cycle; it does not validate the nine-responsibility theory or any candidate pattern.

## Primary-source preparation

SRC-0001 is the author's DEV publication, linked from Ryan Carniato's profile.
Its displayed date is Sep 22; the API metadata request was denied, so the year
has not been independently verified. The packet pins the accessed web edition.
SRC-0002 is the authors' Ink & Switch essay, dated April 2019; it supplies a
conference citation and DOI. We use the web edition, not an assumed identical PDF.

Both packets retain short original passages, exact section/sentence locators,
clear editorial boundaries, source URLs and SHA-256 digests. They isolate authority
placement rather than attempting full article extraction. No existing research stub
was used as a substitute for a primary source. Each workspace has a four-call plan;
neither has been executed or independently reviewed.

## Next evidence work

Run the two bounded investigations, inspect claim fidelity and negative results,
then extend source review to mutation, persistence, reconciliation and recovery.
Do not complete FEP-WP-0002-T02 on the basis of these excerpts. The full case reviews,
independent known uses, six-to-ten-pattern synthesis and VC-01/VC-02 remain open.
No provider/model was chosen and no paid generation was started in this preparation.