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fpf.tools

fpf.tools is a web service for searching and reading the First Principles Framework Library, a collection of publications containing methods and pattern languages for engineering, research, management and related work. It also provides an HTTP API and MCP endpoints for accessing selected public library material.

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Practical overview

When it fits

Use the library when a task calls for a reusable method or pattern: search from the desired result, read the relevant passage and its conditions, then follow any methods it depends on.

Who it is for

  • People looking for methods relevant to a concrete engineering, research or management task.
  • AI agent clients that need access to selected public library material through MCP or the HTTP API.
  • Readers who want to share or cite specific passages from a publication.

Documented uses

  • Search publications using English task terms, a quoted phrase or a known ID.
  • Read relevant sections and inspect their conditions and related methods.
  • Share a publication, passage or range of consecutive sections.
  • Cite the exact lines of the edition consulted.
Before you choose

Requirements & limits

The official privacy page states that an account is not needed. The website, search, HTTP API and MCP endpoints are described as public. Library sources are primarily English.

  • Search expects English task words, quoted phrases or known IDs; search itself does not translate or generate advice.
  • Retrieved passages should be checked for their conditions and supplying methods before application.
  • Publication links follow published names and open current text after ordinary updates; source-line citations identify the specific GitHub commit and lines.
  • For agents unable to use MCP, the start page describes copying source Markdown into the agent.

Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.

Source-based practical guide

Compare options for obtaining greenhouse climate control

Use SYSE.24 to compare four acquisition routes against the same required climate-control result and intended configuration.

Before you start

  • Define a common required climate-control result and intended configuration for every option.
  • Identify the four options to compare: a ready controller, commissioned development, in-house development with AI assistance, and a controller with its own supervisory layer.

Steps

  1. Define the same required climate-control result and intended configuration for all options.

  2. Use SYSE.24 to compare the acquisition routes, considering integration, support, capability, access and eventual exit alongside price.

  3. Produce an option comparison, identify evidence needed before choosing, and state a next action.

  4. Name the conditions that could reverse the choice.

Expected outcome

An option comparison, evidence needed before choosing, a next action, and conditions that could reverse the choice.

Guide limitations

  • The route is a constructed example; replace its offers, thresholds and evidence with your own.
  • It is not a measured claim about savings or project success.
  • The Reference connects this comparison to system definition, trials, realization and release; consult those methods when the task needs their results.
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7 November 2026
Original website title
FPF Library — First Principles Framework | fpf.tools · Official homepage title · retained in its source language
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