ROFS-8 is an open standard proposal for structured reasoning and decision evaluation.
It started from a simple but persistent problem: people often preserve answers, but lose the reasoning behind them.
This repository captures a framework for making reasoning more explicit, auditable, and reusable.
It is designed for humans, LLMs, and AI agents to make reasoning steps explicit, auditable, and reproducible.
Unless otherwise stated, terms such as equilibrium, directed relation, weighting, and convergence are conceptual or illustrative.
ROFS-8 focuses on evidence assessment, contradiction analysis, and decision convergence.
The framework uses eight proposed dimensions: Human, Machine, Material, Method, Environment, Measurement, Time, and Purpose.
ROFS-8 evolves the familiar 5M1E style of analysis with additional reasoning dimensions.
This repository contains the canonical whitebook, governance notes, and future reference artifacts.
Start with Whitebook.md for the full specification and README.md for the quick overview.
Whitebook.mdGOVERNANCE.mdROADMAP.md- examples/
The project is published for public review, implementation, criticism, and extension under Apache 2.0.