Accepted ROS–Framework Engineering Profile v1.0: research frontier

Scope and source artifacts

• research/framework-engineering/ros-profile/README.md
• research/framework-engineering/ros-profile/open-ros-gaps.md
• research/evaluations/FE-BOUNDARY-2026-07-28/ros-fe-profile-v1-audit.md

These files are treated as one analysis unit because they share an evidence base or form one accepted/current package. Generated derivatives, templates, prompts, private working packets, and superseded runs are not counted as independent conclusions.

Knowledge extraction

• Primary objective: Provide a versioned pilot execution and record profile for Framework Engineering research.
• Primary claims: The profile is usable for synthetic low-consequence pilots. It is not sufficient for unattended promotion or strong conformance claims.
• Methodology: Repository audit, baseline execution, schema and validator inspection, and test execution.
• Accepted hypotheses/findings: v1.0 remains the accepted pilot baseline. High-severity integrity gaps require a v1.1 proposal.
• Rejected or unsupported hypotheses: A green current validation proves complete execution or lineage integrity.
• Assumptions: Human promotion authority prevents the worst automation harms. Current pilots are low consequence.
• Limitations: Execution-local records, references, duplicate identity, and manifests are incompletely validated.
• Known uncertainties: Negative-test coverage; Migration safety; Cross-repository dependency integrity.
• Confidence: bounded by the source package; no confidence is promoted by this frontier analysis.

Adversarial challenge

The manifest declares a broader contract than the validator enforces. Evidence that would materially change the assessment includes independent replication, preregistered negative controls, matched causal comparison, or a demonstrated failure of the current measurement instruments. The analysis deliberately treats planned validation as a dependency, not as completed evidence.

Top five opportunities

Semantic duplicates were merged into the linked repository-wide records. The five selections maximize uncertainty reduction and repository reuse, rather than creating five unique labels for each source package.