FDRP applies the quality controls that world-class factories use on production lines — statistical process control, defect detection, continuous improvement — to the planning process itself, so that every planning decision is manufactured with the same traceability, convergence measurement, and gate-review rigour as a physical component. Version 23.0 presents the matured framework spanning 80 production runs and 1,968 traceable decisions (all figures from the 2026-06-10 measurement snapshot of the production database).
This edition adds Measuring Ourselves: three pre-registered falsifiable A/B experiments that turned the process on itself, with the negative and inconclusive results published rather than suppressed. None showed the orchestration wrapper beating an unwrapped baseline given the same curated prompt; one caught a bug in the system's own verdict logic; and the most dramatic verdict was rejected by the system's own quality gate as a measurement artifact. The resulting epistemic distinction — PRODUCES is not BEATS — frames the paper. Every positive claim is fenced as either produced in practice (an existence claim — the verified CHF 147.1M antimatter-facility engineering case is of this kind) or beat an unwrapped baseline in a controlled A/B (a comparative claim, of which this edition makes none for the orchestration wrapper). What measurement retired: the “self-evolving” framing was removed from the title after the self-improvement flywheel showed a measured 0.12% true-promotion yield and was switched off; a convergence-metric polarity defect that manufactured a false verdict was found and reconciled (convergence_score = 1 − cvt_ratio, higher is better). The value the paper does claim — production at scale through curated concept-to-X pipelines, deterministic validation, and honest gates — is the produced-in-practice kind.