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Operable means the pattern can be worked with.
A pattern becomes operable when it has a name, evidence, a mechanism, a blindness explanation, and a use case. The expert can point to it, test it, teach it, price it, delegate it, or install it into an AI workflow.
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This is CF's own contribution.
Many traditions make thinking visible or design better artifacts. Cognitive Fingerprint™ narrows that inheritance into one practical output: a single expert's repeated judgment pattern, made usable.