Architecture Structural View Adequacy (ASV)
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Type: Architectural pattern Status: Stable Normativity: Normative unless explicitly marked informative
Use this pattern when you have a structural description of one selected architecture-relevant U.Structure and need to decide whether that same description is also a U.View under one exact viewpoint.
Relations
C.30.TFSContent
Problem frame
Use this pattern when you have a structural description of one selected architecture-relevant U.Structure and need to decide whether that same description is also a U.View under one exact viewpoint.
The first useful move is small. In ordinary prose, name the described holon or actual ArchitectureRelation when known, the selected structure, the smallest useful structure-kind set, any qualifier that changes interpretation, and the next architecture move. If one or two sentences make those values clear, stop.
For example: “The failover diagram describes runtime-interaction and control structures, but it hides the actual failover relation. Recover that relation before relying on the diagram as a view.” This is already a usable triage result. Use ArchitectureStructureKindTriage@Project only when the result must be retained, compared, or handed on.
@Project is a compatibility and retrieval cue for a project-side use record. It supplies no project identity, authority, context, viewpoint, parthood, or Work occurrence. When one actual project matters to this triage, projectWorkOccurrenceRef identifies the composite U.Work recovered under [A.15.6](/generated/patterns/A.15.6). Include architectureStructuralViewProjectUseRelationRef only when a named pattern defines the relation by which this use concerns that Work and an occurrence of the relation obtains. A Work reference alone does not establish project locality. If locality matters but that relation is not yet defined, use A.6.RCD before filling the field; otherwise omit both project-local fields. claimPatternRefs points only to patterns that define or test separate claims; it does not identify a pattern-application occurrence.
Start with [C.30](/generated/patterns/C.30) when the actual architecture relation, exact selected structure, or architecture claim is unclear. Use C.30.ASV only when a structural description over selected architecture-relevant structure changes the next architecture use. Use the full ArchitectureStructuralView record only when one exact description episteme passes E.17.0 conformance to an exact viewpoint and the view changes action, selected reliance relation, correspondence, source return, publication, comparison, or another non-ASV claim or use.
What goes wrong if C.30.ASV is missed: one favored diagram, module view, TEVB viewpoint, generated relation graph, control sketch, or neural-network block diagram is treated as the architecture, selected structure, U.View, or proof without naming the exact description episteme, selected structure kind, viewpoint-conformance occurrence, hidden or lost structure, correspondence, and next architecture use.
What C.30.ASV buys in practice: the practitioner can distinguish description identity, selected structure and structure kind, exact viewpoint conformance, representation, and publication before relying on a view. Construction history, hidden or lost structure, correspondence, source return, and admissible use remain separately inspectable.
Do not use C.30.ASV when the question is only about a general architecture claim, subject-side ArchitectureRelation, structure as such, selected transformation-flow relation, mathematical graph description, transformation-flow path relation, or crossing relation. Use [C.30](/generated/patterns/C.30), [A.22](/generated/patterns/A.22), [E.18](/generated/patterns/E.18), [E.18.2](/generated/patterns/E.18.2), [C.29](/generated/patterns/C.29), or C.30.TFS-REL as appropriate. If the view is used for another claim, use the applicable pattern for that claim and keep C.30.ASV only for the view portion.
Thin precision-restoration pointer: if the issue under repair is still whether view, architecture view, architecture structural view, diagram, model, graph, layer, or functional architecture names a structural description, a U.View, an architecture description, a representation, a publication occurrence, a publication form, a source relation, or another claim or relation named by value, use [C.30.P](/generated/patterns/C.30.P) first. Apply C.30.ASV only after the architecture structural-view claim or non-ASV claim named by value is recoverable.
Problem
Architecture structural-view work is selected-structure triage: which architecture-relevant structure is described, which structure kind is under consideration, which exact viewpoint's fixed rules the description satisfies, and what relation, constraint, invariant, operation, dynamics description, hidden or lost structure, correspondence, source-to-use path or work-reliance relation, and source-return condition changes the next architecture move. The candidate is first one C.2.1 description episteme. That same episteme is a U.View only while an exact EpistemeViewpointConformanceRelation to an independently identified U.Viewpoint episteme obtains. Diagram, representation, publication occurrence, form, carrier, and rendering remain separate.
Without this pattern:
- a module-interface view is treated as all architecture;
- a selected transformation-flow structure, mathematical graph description, or control diagram is treated as proof;
- a structure kind is treated as a
U.Viewpoint; - a viewpoint label, query, authoring route, family-declaration membership, diagram, or publication is treated as enough for
U.View; - E.17.2's TEVB template or a project-local TEVB declaration is treated as a global bundle and mutated to carry architecture-specific structure kinds;
- a diagram, table, dashboard, generated relation graph, or ADR is treated as the view episteme itself;
- functional architecture is treated as a peer ontology rather than a structure-kind interpretation under C.30;
- cross-view consistency is asserted by prose instead of correspondence claims or independently obtaining relations;
- omitted structure is relied on in subsequent work without a source-return condition.
Forces
Solution
For an architecture structural view, first identify one candidate description episteme, its exact selected U.Structure EntityOfConcern, effective U.ReferenceScheme, structure kind, exact viewpoint episteme, and the direct conformance occurrence. Then add construction history, correspondence, hidden or lost structure, source-to-use path or work-reliance relation when current, source-return condition when needed, admissible use, and next architecture move. Use ArchitectureStructuralView only for the same episteme whose E.17.0 conformance actually obtains.
A conforming ArchitectureStructuralView is not a second individual beside its description. The candidate retains one C.2.1 identity <exact ClaimGraph, one exact selected-structure EntityOfConcern, effective U.ReferenceScheme>. The exact viewpoint and EpistemeViewpointConformanceRelation qualify that same episteme as U.View; they do not enter its C.2.1 identity.
C.30.ASV is the selected-structure structural-view adequacy pattern for architecture work. It explains how descriptions of different selected structure kinds may satisfy declared viewpoints and concerns. It is not a complete architecture-description pattern; C.30.AD composes separately identified descriptions, view-use claims, and correspondence only when that broader description use is being made.
C.30.ASV does not extend any TEVB family by implication. It defines architecture structure kinds and architecture-specific bindings to exact viewpoint epistemes. A project reuses a TEVB or architecture viewpoint only through an exact U.ViewpointRef resolved from a materialized local declaration in one exact E.17.1 catalogue; E.17.2 and C.30.ASV otherwise provide templates, not current family values. Source-to-use, work-reliance, project-use, representation, and publication relations remain separate from viewpoint conformance.
Architecture structural view record
StructuralAspectDescription describes one selected structural aspect under A.22. It is not an ArchitectureStructureKindRef or U.View by itself. ArchitectureStructuralView names the same architecture-description episteme only after exact E.17.0 conformance obtains.
recordPatternLocator identifies the pattern whose record form is being used. It is a locator, not a substitute for any rule needed by a current claim.
The selected U.Structure is the one EntityOfConcern. Before that field can be filled, A.22 identifies the structure from exact constituents, selected independently obtaining relation occurrences, applied constraint claims, and one exact receiving-use frame. A description, query, diagram, family declaration, file, representation, or publication creates none of those discriminators. relatedStructureRefs may name structures needed to interpret correspondence, allocation, or crossing, but they do not create a union-valued EntityOfConcern. When another selected structure becomes primary, identify another description episteme under C.2.1. Assert edition continuity only when its historical-continuation predicate obtains, and apply A.6.4 separately when retargeting is claimed; do not overwrite identity through a view field.
The direct conformance occurrence has exactly two participants: viewEpistemeRef as candidate E and viewpointRef as exact P. Its fixed E.17.0 predicate requires: (1) independently identified E and admitted P; (2) exact EntityOfConcern(E) recovered; (3) P's fixed EntityOfConcern-kind criterion succeeds for that exact object; (4) E has an independently admitted episteme kind accepted by P without circular U.View use; and (5) E's fixed claim content under its effective scheme satisfies P's concern-coverage, semantic-form, completeness, and admitted-omission rules. The occurrence is participant-determined by <E,P>.
An architecture claim can carry positive, negative, unresolved, required, desired, expected, or candidate content. architectureRelationOccurrenceRefs is affirmative only for independently obtaining direct ArchitectureRelation occurrences. describedHolonRef and participant traces keep the subject recoverable; neither an optional claim nor a diagram derives the subject-side occurrence.
ClaimScope, concern, model-use structure, and empirical grounding remain optional neighboring qualifiers or relations. modelUseStructureRef appears only when an independently selected DDD-style bounded-model-use structure changes interpretation or selection for this use. None enters base episteme or selected-structure identity.
viewConstruction records provenance only. Direct authoring, A.6.3 construction, projection, query, extraction, selection, bundle inclusion, diagramming, rendering, publication, evaluation, or current use neither satisfies the conformance predicate nor creates selected structure. Representation, publication occurrence, form, and carrier likewise retain their own identities.
structureKnowledgeState? states how the selected structure is known when partial knowledge matters: declared, observed, inferred, generated, simulated, extracted, hypothesized, or with an unknown region present. Unknown or inferred structure may guide inspection or source return; it cannot by itself supply architecture truth, assurance, gate, release, causal proof, or architecture decision.
Architecture structure-kind classifier
ArchitectureStructureKindRef is a C.30-local DiscriminatorToken enumeration over exact architecture-relevant U.Structure references selected under A.22 and used by C.30. It is not U.Kind, U.Viewpoint, U.ViewpointBundle, StructuralAspectDescription, ArchitectureStructuralView, or a root U.* kind. An ArchitectureStructuralView uses structureKindRef to state which kind of selected structure its claim graph describes; that token neither identifies the structure nor grants U.View membership.
The first group is the seed classifier set for ordinary architecture structural-view use. SecurityTrustBoundaryStructure, WorkMethodStructure, AllocationResponsibilityStructure, EvidenceAssuranceStructure, and ScaleEvolutionStructure are classifier values over selected U.Structure references, not new root kinds. ASV may use them to name the selected architecture-relevant structure, but their full semantics stay in the named security, work and method, allocation-responsibility, evidence and assurance, scale, characterization, or mathematical-lens patterns.
Do not enumerate structure kinds by default. Choose the smallest useful structure-kind set that changes the next architecture move. If no structure kind changes action, keep the phrase as ordinary recognition wording or a source note. This does not weaken kind discipline; it prevents ArchitectureStructureKindRef from becoming an audit checklist.
Inside C.30.ASV, OtherDeclaredStructureKind is always an architecture-structure-kind classifier value over U.Structure; it does not mint a general FPF root kind.
OtherDeclaredStructureKind is admissible only when the local text names:
declaredStructureKindName;declaredStructureKindDefinition;- allowed relation families;
- locally triggered overreads;
- applicable patterns for non-ASV claims;
- a selected-structure admission test, plus the effective
U.ReferenceSchemewhen the local classifier name depends on one.
Each structure kind needs a short definition, allowed relation families, locally triggered overreads, applicable patterns for its non-ASV claims, and example architecture structural-view records. This is not a new root-kind set; it is a controlled classifier set over exact U.Structure values.
Small triage output
When triage must be retained, compared, or handed on, use ArchitectureStructureKindTriage@Project before a full view record when the practitioner only needs to identify the structure kind under consideration and next architecture move.
architectureConcernCue? and sourcePhrase? are recognition wording. claimPatternRefs? names only patterns that define or test separate claims; it does not assert that a pattern-application occurrence exists. inspectedDescriptionOrViewRef? and candidateViewEpistemeRef? name actual epistemes only when identified under C.2.1. None creates an ArchitectureStructureKindRef, selected structure, architecture relation, or U.View. Fill exactViewpointRef when the exact independently admitted viewpoint is identified; fill viewpointConformanceRelationRef only when the same candidate episteme actually conforms to that viewpoint.
When architectureClaimRef is absent, describedHolonRef, architectureRelationOccurrenceRef, or at least one exact candidate selected structure must keep the subject recoverable for the intended triage. claimScope, effectiveReferenceScheme, and modelUseStructureRef are present only when they change this use. The card publishes no architecture claim and creates no subject relation. A full ArchitectureStructuralView requires the candidate episteme's exact C.2.1 identity plus obtaining E.17.0 conformance; it does not require an architecture-claim record when the exact selected-structure EntityOfConcern and subject trace are otherwise recoverable.
Practitioner prompt labels are first-entry cues, not ArchitectureStructureKindRef values. When the triage is retained as a record, use the technical values below:
Evolutionary-engineering candidate structural view
Use this branch when a retained variant, front member, selected set, or architecture-candidate palette needs structural-description triage. The claim is not "this archive is architecture" and not "this record is already a U.View." It is "this candidate makes an exact selected structure or structure kind current for an architecture claim or possible architecture move."
If the candidate cannot name an exact selected structure or structure kind, keep it in [C.18](/generated/patterns/C.18), [C.19](/generated/patterns/C.19), or [G.5](/generated/patterns/G.5). If the description is used only to publish, compare, or explain the candidate, use [C.30.AD](/generated/patterns/C.30.AD), the comparison pattern, or the publication-use pattern named by value. It is an ArchitectureStructuralView only when the same candidate description episteme independently conforms to the exact viewpoint under E.17.0.
Project-local architecture viewpoint-family template and binding rows
C.30.ASV ships no exact architecture viewpoint catalogue, family value, reference, or viewpoint episteme edition. VF.ARCH.STRUCTURE, VF.TEVB.ENG, and VP.Architecture* are therefore not current global values. A project may use similarly spelled ordinary designators only after it constitutes exact catalogue episteme L and binds exact local references.
Architecture structural views can reuse a materialized local family without turning structure kinds into viewpoints. The project first:
- constitutes exact L through obtaining
EpistemeConstitutionRelation(G_L, K_L, R_L); - places one local declaration claim block inside exact
G_L, retrieved by ordinaryfamilyDesignator = f_archunderR_L; - states the exact target-kind compatibility condition and a finite non-empty set of exact
U.ViewpointRefmembers; - resolves every retained reference under
R_Lto one exact P already admitted under E.17.0; and - preserves exact catalogue and member provenance for any imported project-local TEVB reference rather than importing a family label.
Until those bindings exist, use this only as an authoring template:
Every r_*, P_*, d_*, L, and f_arch above is a variable until one project supplies the exact binding. A d_* value is only P's ordinary designator; it is neither a reference nor P. Another project with matching spellings has not reused this family unless it resolves the same exact L, declaration, and members.
Project-local TEVB reuse follows the same rule. A project may retain one or more exact references from a materialized local TEVB declaration when their exact P rules fit. It preserves each <editionDesignator(L_source), sourceFamilyDesignator, sourceViewpointRef> tuple and any omission decision. It does not expand a global TEVB core, infer a cross-family import relation from labels, or claim that E.17.2's four-position template is a materialized family.
candidateViewRecordSetRef names an exact C.13 collection of permitted description or specification-use record forms for one structure-kind binding. The binding and family declaration may help retrieve candidate E and resolve exact P, but neither makes the fixed E.17.0 predicate true, identifies an EpistemeViewpointConformanceRelation occurrence, grants U.View membership, or creates the selected structure. The collection is not a publication face or package grouping, and it neither supplies a ViewFamilyId nor adds a viewpoint; publication forms, carriers, catalogue locators, and family designators remain separate.
Structural-view publication-use boundary
This is the C.30.ASV structural-view publication-use boundary. C.30.ASV covers the description episteme's identity, selected architecture-relevant structure, structure kind, E.17.0 viewpoint conformance, construction history, correspondence, hidden and lost structure, source return, and the next architecture move. When a view, diagram, graph, card, benchmark, probe output, model publication, or architecture note is used for evidence sufficiency, safety assurance, gate passage, release permission, work record, or decision authority, use the applicable pattern for that claim; keep only the structural-view record and next architecture move in C.30.ASV.
Initial architecture structure kinds and view records
The initial set is a seed for first architecture moves, not an atlas. Use the table to choose one structure kind under consideration and the applicable pattern for any non-ASV claim.
Classifier values defined outside C.30.ASV remain admissible when they are the architecture-relevant structure under consideration, but C.30.ASV does not define their full record families:
Minimum useful seed examples:
Minimal SecurityTrustBoundaryStructureView fields:
SecurityTrustBoundaryStructure carries adversarial-boundary interpretation: which protected assets or effects are under consideration, who or what is trusted, where untrusted input crosses, what authority or privilege is exposed, which adversarial paths and attack exposures matter, which data-flow or control-flow security boundaries matter, and where secure defaults, hardening, update or supply-chain channels, detection, or response boundaries change the next architecture move.
Apply evidence, assurance, gate, or compliance patterns only when the architecture move relies on evidence sufficiency, assurance verdict, gate passage, regulatory acceptance, or release authority. If the selected move is structural, first recover the structure: trust boundary, loss-control relation, control relation, evidence reuse structure, or affected structure or affected view.
Use a SafetyLossControlStructureNote when a safety-architecture concern first needs the architecture-side loss-control structure rather than a safety-case verdict:
The note gives a positive first architecture move: find the loss-control structure, controlled process or plant, constraint, foreseeable misuse, operational design scope, and action-relevant boundary. It does not replace evidence, assurance, gate, causal, dynamics, or temporal claims.
Functional structure view boundary
A FunctionalStructureView under C.30.ASV does not mint U.Function, U.Transformation, or a bearer relation. It is the same ArchitectureStructuralView episteme whose EntityOfConcern is one selected functional U.Structure and whose exact viewpoint conformance obtains. It may carry FunctionalElementClaim epistemes when the claim graph relates that selected functional structure to required or desired behavior or effect content and to a bearer or candidate-bearer locus. The claim is not identical with any actual behavior occurrence, bearer, capability, port, allocation, or relation.
Keep three branches explicit:
- required or desired behavior or effect: a C.2.1 claim; use the applicable requirement, architecture, capability, method, or functional-view pattern for that claim;
- actual transformation: an independently identified
U.Transformationonly after A.3.4 recovers the changed referent, extent or boundary, boundary conditions, actual before, during, and after facts, and continuity or reidentification basis; - compound flow organization: an exact selected
TransformationFlowStructureunder E.18, whose constituents and selected obtaining relations are independently identified; the structure is not itself an actual transformation.
FunctionalElementClaim has ordinary C.2.1 identity <exact ClaimGraph, one exact EntityOfConcern, effective U.ReferenceScheme>. For this use its EntityOfConcern is the selected functional structure. Its claim content may name:
- one or more required or desired behavior or effect claim refs;
- actual transformation refs only when the complete A.3.4 basis independently obtains;
- selected transformation-flow structure refs for compound flow organization;
- a bearer or candidate-bearer locus, normally a
U.Systemor candidate system for a separately established transformer system-role-kind claim; - capability, input and output condition, functional-port, dependency, allocation, and correspondence refs only when the applicable pattern defines or tests that relation or claim.
If no bearer or candidate allocation is current, do not claim a filled functional element. Record a required-behavior gap, required-effect gap, capability gap, functional-behavior slot, or candidate allocation question. This preserves the practical architecture move without pretending that a module, component, diagram row, function word, requirement, or selected flow structure has already supplied the bearer or actual change.
Required cooling effect followed by actual cooling. Requirement episteme RequiredCoolingEffect-1 says that Rack 7 should be brought below 30 °C during declared operation. Before the rack or cooling loop has changed, that is required effect claim content: there is no actual U.Transformation, even if a functional-view row, flow diagram, or selected TransformationFlowStructure cites it. Later, Rack7CoolingTransformation-42 may be identified under A.3.4 when the exact changed referent and boundary are fixed, operating and ambient boundary conditions are stated, actual before facts show 38 °C, actual during facts recover heat removal, actual after facts show 27 °C, and continuity or reidentification keeps the same referent recoverable. A separate satisfaction or realization predicate is still needed before claiming that the later transformation satisfies RequiredCoolingEffect-1; temporal succession or matching labels alone is insufficient.
A selected transformation-flow structure, mathematical graph description, transformation-flow path slice, crossing, or flow valuation is not a functional element or actual transformation by default. When a transformation-flow relation is being used, connect the functional view to the exact TransformationFlowStructure through C.30.TFS-REL. When a mathematical graph description is being used, connect it through [E.18.2](/generated/patterns/E.18.2); when math-lens use is being claimed, connect it through [C.29](/generated/patterns/C.29). When module allocation is being claimed, use [A.6.M](/generated/patterns/A.6.M) to repair the module claim and identify the admitted allocation or interface relation separately rather than treating function and module as one kind. Functional ports and module interfaces can both use U.Signature discipline, but functional ports specify behavior input and output slots while module interfaces specify substitution, compatibility, boundary, and change-policy claims.
Composability and quality compositionality are separate claims. If the view says parts can be assembled, keep that as a structure claim or use claim. If it says a quality of the whole follows from parts, assign the quality-composition claim to [C.25](/generated/patterns/C.25) and C.16-backed measurement or quality claim.
Compositional formalisms may express explicit composition structures, view relations, and model relations. They do not make required behavior actual, create transformations, or make safety, latency, reliability, or another quality propagate automatically.
Correspondence and source return
Use correspondence records when the view relates functional, flow, control, module-interface, information, runtime, placement, work, evidence, scale, or logical structures. Do not assert cross-view consistency by prose alone.
Correspondence examples:
Use SourceReturnCondition when compression, extraction, coarsening, evidence reuse, ML evaluation, bounded exception, many-to-many allocation, publication, or decision claim hides a distinction needed for action, assurance, causal use, law-domain review, regulatory review, comparison, or reopening.
If viewConstruction is query, extraction, coarsening, correspondenceSlice, or sourceReturnSlice, and omitted structure changes action, assurance, causal use, law-domain or regulatory review, or subsequent decision reopening, SourceReturnCondition is needed.
When the view is used to name affected structures for a next architecture use but no decision record is being used, use C.30 AffectedArchitectureStructureNote: affected structure kinds, affected structure refs when known, affected ASV refs, accepted or suspected view loss, source-return condition, and the next admissible use. The note is not an architecture decision, ADR, gate passage, evidence sufficiency, or release authority.
Use the thinnest source or reliance relation that preserves the next architecture move. Use fuller source, evidence, assurance, or claim-kind relation only when the source or reliance relation being used cannot be inspected, used, compared, refreshed, or bounded without it. A ControlStructureViewNote may precede full C.30.LCA use or use of the applicable proof or assurance pattern when one control relation and its boundary are enough for the architecture move being made.
Treat source return as a user action, not only a metadata field:
Do not make source return mandatory for ordinary local recognition when no hidden distinction is being used for action. Do not omit source return when a hidden distinction carries a selected reliance relation, assurance, law-domain, comparison, causal, gate, or decision commitment. The condition is needed only when the repaired text still relies on the hidden source-side distinction.
Model cards, system cards, and evaluation harness reports may publish or substantiate an architecture structural view only when the structural-view claim is recoverable. The view must name the relevant structure kind, such as RuntimeInteractionStructure, InformationDataStructure, SecurityTrustBoundaryStructure, EvidenceAssuranceStructure, ModuleInterfaceStructure, or another declared structure kind; it must also state intended-use scope, evaluation scope and known loss when evaluation is used, deployment-context mismatch when that mismatch is being claimed, and the applicable evidence or assurance pattern when the publication is used beyond transparency. A card or harness is not architecture adequacy, safety proof, or release claim or gate claim by publication alone.
Currentness and smallest reopen. When a decisive input changes, reopen only the ArchitectureStructuralView locus and use conclusions that depend on it. A changed selected structure or structure kind reopens its exact structure fields and, when another structure becomes the EntityOfConcern, requires a separately identified description episteme; a changed description identity reopens only that episteme's view admission; a changed viewpoint or conformance occurrence reopens only the E.17.0 predicate; changed construction or knowledge state, correspondence, source edition or lost structure reopens the matching provenance, correspondence, source-to-use, hidden or lost structure, or source-return locus; and a changed admissible-use boundary or applicable rule reopens only its dependent use or claim. Update that locus, narrow use, return to the named source, or stop. If conformance to the current exact viewpoint is not established, use a structural description or ArchitectureStructureKindTriage@Project for the next move. Changed use alone leaves fixed <E,P> conformance unchanged; unrelated structures, views, and claims stay closed.
Worked slices
Runtime degradation. A team says, "The architecture is fine, but incidents happen when failover starts." The first architecture move is to recover runtime interaction, control relation, failover relation, placement, and evidence-assurance structures before turning a dashboard or deployment diagram into proof:
Use [C.24](/generated/patterns/C.24) when a fixed action or option needs budgeted tool-call planning or replanning. Use [A.15.1](/generated/patterns/A.15.1) for actual Work and identify any call-graph structure under its applicable pattern. Keep those claims and uses separate from the architecture structural-view claim.
CPS or plant architecture. A plant drawing, P&ID-like publication form, LCA sketch, or safety-case view is not the plant architecture by itself. First recovery can require:
Chiplet or device architecture. A packaging diagram or interconnect sketch may involve several structure kinds:
Organization or operating-model architecture. An org chart or Work-Method diagram can be architecture-relevant only after Systems, local system-role kinds, separate System-classification judgments, assignments, enactor relations, complete actual-Work bases, direct responsibility relations, concern or affected-party relations, information, and evidence are separated:
Evidence reuse across product variants. A certification or test package reused across module variants may be architecture-relevant as an evidence-and-assurance structure view, but it is not an assurance verdict:
Organization service architecture. A service organization sketch that shows teams, handoffs, escalation points, and dashboards is not the organization architecture by itself. First recovery can require:
AI agent diagram. A "planner-memory-tools" diagram is not the agent's architecture by itself. It may start first recovery as a structure-kind set, without minting an AI-domain ontology:
Structural AI-agent security is architecture structure when these structure kinds change the next architecture move. When the claim is instead about latent representation, decoding, or effect adequacy, keep the phrase as a reduced-use source cue and use the applicable representation, decoding, or effect-adequacy pattern.
Generated code-agent relation graph. A probe JSON or code-agent architecture relation graph can be an architecture structural view publication only after observed, inferred, or unknown observation value, evidence pointers or source pointers, unexplored regions, and typed relation semantics are present. Add source-return conditions when the intended use relies on hidden distinctions. Use the applicable proof and assurance patterns for the separate belief-state and downstream-change-safety claims.
Neural-network block replacement. Replacing attention, FFN, convolution, SSM, recurrent, memory block or cache block, MoE expert-selection, pruning, distillation, or another block is an architecture move only when the changed structure kind, flow relation, module-interface claim kind, preserved and lost structure, affected characteristic, source relation, and applicable decision or evidence pattern are named.
Archetypal Grounding
Bias-Annotation
Bias lenses: Arch, Onto, Epist, Prag, Did, Gov. Scope: architecture structural-view claims over holons.
This checklist verifies the preceding guidance after the practitioner has chosen the selected repair action; it is not a required project control form and not a substitute for the card, note, description, direct conformance relation, or repair guidance above.
Conformance Checklist
Common Anti-Patterns and How to Avoid Them
Consequences
Rationale
C.30.ASV exists because architecture descriptions are commonly multi-view, but FPF cannot let "view" absorb every architecture claim. A structure kind and a viewpoint are different. A structure kind says what kind of selected structure is described; a viewpoint is one exact episteme whose fixed rules the candidate description must satisfy. The direct conformance occurrence, not a label or bundle, makes the same episteme a U.View.
The pattern keeps first use light by providing ArchitectureStructureKindTriage@Project. If triage identifies the structure kind under consideration and the next admissible architecture move, no full view record is needed. The full record is used when exact conformance obtains and a view changes action, correspondence, publication, source return, source or reliance use, or non-view claim kind.
The TEVB decision is conservative. E.17.2 supplies a four-position project-local authoring template, not a current family or importable bundle. Architecture may reuse only exact U.ViewpointRef values resolved from a materialized local declaration, with catalogue and member provenance preserved. Architecture-specific structure kinds and candidate-record bindings are defined beside those exact local references rather than mutating their resolved viewpoint epistemes or treating declaration membership as conformance.
SoTA-Echoing
SysML v2 is intentionally excluded from C.30.ASV's SoTA basis. This pattern treats it as a historical dead end rather than a source or lineage and derives no rule from it.
Relations
Builds on: C.30.P, C.30, A.1, A.22, C.2.1, E.24.PUB, A.6.3, E.17.0, E.17.1, E.17.2, A.7, E.10.D2, E.10, C.2.P, and F.18.
Coordinates with: A.6.F, A.6.M, C.30.TFS-REL, C.30.LCA, C.30.ILC, E.18, C.29, C.16, C.25, C.28, A.10, G.6, B.3, A.20, A.21, A.15, C.11, C.32.P2S, C.32, C.32.PAD, C.32.ADR, C.32.ADA, C.33, C.34, and C.35 when problem-to-structure carry-through, candidate-set, architecture-decision, ADR-projection, decision-adequacy, capture, preservation, or generated-carrier claim kinds are being made. Use A.6.M when a module-interface claim is being made, and separately identify the admitted module or allocation relation required by that claim.
Use these patterns for the other claims: C.30 for direct architecture relations, bounded architecture claims, and selected-structure adequacy; A.1 for the exact described holon; A.22 for selected-structure identity; C.2.1 for description episteme identity; E.17.0 for exact viewpoint conformance; E.24.PUB for publication occurrence, form, and carrier; C.29 for representation and mathematical-lens use; C.33 for captured and lost selected structure in a view; C.34 for preservation or correspondence between a view and another structure-bearing object; C.35 for generated or discovered carriers before candidate admission; E.18 for selected transformation-flow structure, transformation-flow path, and crossing discipline; E.18.2 for mathematical graph descriptions; C.16 for characterization; C.25 for Q-Bundles; C.28 for causal use; A.10 for bounded source-to-use reliance; G.6 for citable provenance paths; B.3 for named assurance; A.20 for internal-constraint validity; A.21 for gate decisions and the applicable domain pattern for release; A.15 for Work alignment and A.15.6 for project-Work recovery, with project-use relations supplied by their own defining patterns; C.11 for decisions; and C.32.P2S for problem-to-structure carry-through when the view is one captured or lost-structure stage. C.30.ASV covers structural-view adequacy for the selected structure being viewed.
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Last Updated: 2026-09-10 — upstream FPF commit a87d0ef4 (github.com/ailev/FPF)