# PFES-001 — Core Principles

CP-000 Preserve engineering intent.
CP-001 Understand first. Engineer second.
CP-002 Build capabilities, not one-off solutions.
CP-003 Hardware defines reality.
CP-004 Evidence outranks intuition.
CP-005 Dependency closure before transplantation.
CP-006 Unknown remains unknown.
CP-007 Automate understanding.
CP-008 Correctness before optimization.
