{
  "format": "vercy-model-allocation-candidate/v1",
  "contourId": "EM-STR-01",
  "proposedName": "Strategy",
  "modelId": null,
  "registryId": null,
  "allocationState": "unassigned",
  "decision": "NEW MODEL",
  "canonicalPublishable": false,
  "identityTest": {
    "stableIdentity": "A governed strategic choice set remains identifiable across revisions and independently of initiatives, plans and portfolios.",
    "versionIdentity": "Choice, exclusion, advantage, assumption, horizon or authority changes create immutable successor releases.",
    "independentLifecycle": [
      "draft",
      "reviewed",
      "approved",
      "effective",
      "underReview",
      "restated",
      "superseded",
      "retired"
    ],
    "mastership": "authorized strategy authority"
  },
  "boundary": {
    "owns": [
      "strategy identity",
      "immutable strategy releases",
      "selected and excluded choices",
      "advantage claims",
      "assumptions and causal hypotheses",
      "horizon and review triggers",
      "contained strategic themes"
    ],
    "references": [
      {
        "target": "WM-KNW-011",
        "purpose": "Objective"
      },
      {
        "target": "WM-ACT-030",
        "purpose": "Initiative"
      },
      {
        "target": "WM-KNW-010",
        "purpose": "Decision rationale"
      },
      {
        "target": "WM-ACT-024",
        "purpose": "Approval activity"
      },
      {
        "target": "WM-REC-010",
        "purpose": "Issued decision record"
      }
    ],
    "excludes": [
      "mission",
      "policy",
      "initiative",
      "project or portfolio",
      "objective",
      "observed outcome",
      "benefit realization",
      "forecast",
      "scenario projection",
      "value mechanism",
      "recipient value-state stage"
    ],
    "versionCoupling": {
      "coupled": false,
      "linkedBy": [
        "WM-ACT-024",
        "WM-REC-010"
      ],
      "sharedBaseline": false
    }
  },
  "objects": {
    "Strategy": {
      "identity": [
        "strategyId"
      ],
      "required": [
        "name",
        "ownerRef",
        "status"
      ],
      "optional": [
        "successorRef"
      ]
    },
    "StrategyRelease": {
      "identity": [
        "strategyId",
        "version"
      ],
      "required": [
        "selectedChoices",
        "excludedChoices",
        "horizon",
        "rationaleRef",
        "approvalActivityRef",
        "issuedRecordRef",
        "contentDigest"
      ],
      "optional": [
        "themes",
        "assumptions",
        "reviewTriggers",
        "alignmentAssertions",
        "supersedesVersion"
      ]
    },
    "StrategicTheme": {
      "identity": [
        "strategyId",
        "strategyVersion",
        "themeId"
      ],
      "required": [
        "name",
        "meaning"
      ],
      "optional": [
        "objectiveRefs"
      ],
      "authority": "contained; no independent lifecycle or mastership"
    },
    "AlignmentAssertion": {
      "identity": [
        "strategyId",
        "strategyVersion",
        "alignmentAssertionId"
      ],
      "required": [
        "subjectRef",
        "objectiveRef",
        "basisKind",
        "basisRef"
      ],
      "basisKind": [
        "decision-rationale",
        "approval-activity",
        "issued-record"
      ],
      "forbiddenBases": [
        "label-similarity",
        "co-occurrence",
        "shared-owner"
      ]
    }
  },
  "invariants": [
    "Each release selects at least one choice.",
    "Each release explicitly rejects an alternative.",
    "Horizon and authority are explicit.",
    "Mission and policy never constitute strategy.",
    "Initiatives and portfolios never substitute for strategy.",
    "Assumptions carry defeat conditions.",
    "Released versions are immutable.",
    "Restatement links a successor.",
    "Themes remain release-owned children.",
    "Alignment requires attributable basis.",
    "Blocked referents are never silently promoted.",
    "A successor release of one root never compels a successor release of another; cross-root change is linked only by reference.",
    "The Outcome and Benefit Realization referent is unallocated and is never silently promoted.",
    "Strategy never records a forecast, an observed outcome or a realized benefit.",
    "A theme exists only within a Strategy release.",
    "excludedChoices is non-empty; a none-considered rationale does not satisfy this invariant."
  ],
  "holds": [
    "Registry allocation is pending and no identifier may be guessed.",
    "Independent Grok review and one frozen semantic audit are pending.",
    "Capability and process realization remain blocked on legacy specifications.",
    "Package conversion and live verification are pending."
  ],
  "digest": {
    "algorithm": "sha-256",
    "canonicalization": "RFC 8785 JSON Canonicalization Scheme",
    "scope": "full release/version excluding contentDigest"
  },
  "adjudications": [
    {
      "source": "grok",
      "item": "none-considered rationale as alternative to rejected alternatives",
      "disposition": "rejected",
      "basis": "indistinguishable from the rejected project-list case"
    }
  ]
}