{ "model": { "rank": 1729, "code": "thing-q1059", "model_id": "vr.tr.immunity", "name": "immunity", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a biological host's immunity to a specified challenge, assess the evidence and limits of protection, and identify justified next actions.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q1059/", "tier": 2, "score": 130, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "lymphoid tissue", "Bronchus-associated lymphoid tissue", "tertiary lymphoid structure", "diffuse lymphoid tissue", "nodular lymphoid tissue", "epithelium-associated lymphoid tissue", "negative T cell selection", "negative thymic T cell selection", "negative extrathymic T cell selection", "mononuclear phagocyte system", "avian immune system", "adaptive immune system", "Ocular immune system", "reticuloendothelial system", "mucosal immune system", "anti-viral immunity", "clonal selection", "adaptive immunity in jawless vertebrates", "Adaptive Immune System" ], "aliasCount": 19, "merged": 19, "knownIn": 130, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.immunity", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q1059", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1059", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-06T21:43:51Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "missingProviders": [ "Grok" ], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": null, "turns": null, "seconds": 2.2, "error": "Error: Internal error: {\n \"message\": \"API error (status 402 Payment Required): Grok Build usage balance exhausted\",\n \"http_status\": 402\n}", "retried": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 59.4, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\n--------\nworkdir: R:\\02_PROJECTS\\02_Meta_Models_Platforms\\Ver.cy\\current\\thing-registry-backlog\nmodel: gpt-6-astra\nprovider: openai\napproval: never\nsandbox: read-only\nreasoning effort: none\nreasoning summaries: none\nsession id: 01a078ac-9901-7632-a678-02ed3683638f\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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the biological interpretation remains provisional because the registry provides no definition.", "in_scope": [ "The host, anatomical compartment and challenge to which an immunity claim applies", "Innate and adaptive contributions to the claimed protection", "Acquisition through exposure, immunisation or passive transfer", "Evidence of protection and the limits of laboratory or observational indicators", "Changes in protection over time and under altered host or challenge conditions", "Constraints on decisions that rely on an immunity claim" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Legal, diplomatic or institutional immunity", "The full anatomy and physiology of the immune system", "Pathogen identity, evolution and transmission beyond their relevance to the protection claim", "Diagnosis and treatment of infections, allergies, autoimmune disease or immunodeficiency", "Vaccine and medicinal-product manufacture, prescribing and administration", "Population-level herd protection and epidemic dynamics" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "An immunity claim must identify a host and challenge; a description of immune cells or organs alone describes the immune system.", "The claim must distinguish protection from a detectable immune response; an assay result alone does not specify a protected outcome.", "Protection must be tied to an endpoint such as preventing infection or limiting disease severity; these endpoints are not interchangeable.", "Absence of illness without evidence of exposure or protective capacity does not establish immunity.", "Biological immunity concerns host defence; exemption from a rule, jurisdiction or obligation belongs to a different sense of the term." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Host and protected compartment", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Host reference and relevant tissue, organ, mucosal surface or systemic compartment", "why_it_matters": "Locates the capacity and prevents evidence from one compartment being assumed to establish protection everywhere." }, { "name": "Challenge specificity", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Challenge reference, relevant variant or antigen, and known limits of cross-protection", "why_it_matters": "Defines what the immunity claim concerns and where extrapolation needs evidence." }, { "name": "Protective endpoint", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Acquisition prevention; replication or burden control; disease prevention; severity reduction; other specified endpoint", "why_it_matters": "Makes the meaning of protection explicit." }, { "name": "Mechanistic contribution", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Innate; adaptive humoral; adaptive cellular; mixed; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Separates proposed mechanisms from demonstrated protective outcomes." }, { "name": "Acquisition route", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Constitutive defence; prior exposure; immunisation; passive transfer; mixed; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Supports interpretation of onset, persistence and possible immune memory." }, { "name": "Protective evidence status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Supported for a specified endpoint; partially supported; conflicting; unsupported; unassessed", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an unqualified immune or nonimmune label from replacing the evidence." }, { "name": "Immune indicator result", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Assay-specific value, unit, specimen, method, collection time and interpretation reference", "why_it_matters": "Preserves what was actually measured without treating different assays as interchangeable." }, { "name": "Protection estimate", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Endpoint-specific probability or relative effect, with exposure context, time horizon, uncertainty and estimation method; unknown when unavailable", "why_it_matters": "Expresses graded protection only where the evidence supports quantification." }, { "name": "Temporal applicability", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Assessment date, observed follow-up, supported applicability interval and reassessment triggers", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes past evidence from a justified claim about present protection." } ], "affordances": [ "Formulate a bounded immunity claim for a host, challenge, compartment and protective endpoint.", "Attach exposure history, immune measurements and outcome evidence to the claim.", "Compare assessments only after checking endpoint, assay, challenge and temporal compatibility.", "Flag unsupported extrapolation from immune markers to protection or from one challenge to another.", "Identify missing evidence and conditions that warrant reassessment.", "Record how an immunity claim supports or limits a proposed action, referring clinical decisions to applicable guidance and qualified review." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "protection-claim", "name": "Protection claim", "description": "Defines whose immunity is being described, against what and with which meaning of protection.", "rationale": "Immunity cannot be assessed as an unrestricted property detached from a host, challenge and endpoint.", "layers": [ { "id": "host-and-challenge", "name": "Host and challenge", "description": "Establishes the biological bearer and target of the claim.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-immunity-target", "name": "Bounded immunity target", "description": "Record the host, relevant compartment and challenge at the specificity justified by evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which host and anatomical compartment carry the claimed immunity?", "kind": "definition", "id": "bounded-immunity-target-q01" }, { "text": "Which challenge, variant or antigen is covered, and which related challenges remain outside the claim?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bounded-immunity-target-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "protected-outcomes", "name": "Protected outcomes", "description": "Separates different meanings and degrees of protection.", "findings": [ { "id": "endpoint-specific-protection", "name": "Endpoint-specific protection", "description": "Record whether the claim concerns prevention, control or reduced harm, with any supported degree of protection.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does protection mean preventing infection, controlling burden, preventing disease or reducing severity?", "kind": "definition", "id": "endpoint-specific-protection-q01" }, { "text": "Under what exposure conditions and over what observation period was this outcome assessed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "endpoint-specific-protection-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "defence-and-acquisition", "name": "Defence and acquisition", "description": "Records the contributions and origins proposed to account for protection.", "rationale": "Similar protective outcomes may arise through different mechanisms and acquisition routes with different implications.", "layers": [ { "id": "immune-contributions", "name": "Immune contributions", "description": "Identifies relevant innate, humoral and cellular contributions without requiring a complete immune-system model.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-defence-mechanisms", "name": "Supported defence mechanisms", "description": "Separate observed immune activity from mechanisms inferred to contribute to protection.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which innate or adaptive contributions are observed, inferred or unresolved for this protection claim?", "kind": "definition", "id": "supported-defence-mechanisms-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence links each recorded contribution to the specified protective endpoint?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "supported-defence-mechanisms-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "acquisition-and-memory", "name": "Acquisition and memory", "description": "Distinguishes sources of protection and evidence of a retained response capacity.", "findings": [ { "id": "origin-of-protective-capacity", "name": "Origin of protective capacity", "description": "Record relevant exposure, immunisation or transfer history, keeping acquisition history separate from demonstrated immunity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which documented events or constitutive defences are proposed to explain this immunity?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "origin-of-protective-capacity-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes immune memory from currently present effectors or passively acquired components?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "origin-of-protective-capacity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-inference", "name": "Evidence and inference", "description": "Connects immunity claims to measurements, observed outcomes and explicit inference limits.", "rationale": "An immune response, a history of exposure and demonstrated protection provide different kinds of evidence.", "layers": [ { "id": "immune-measurements", "name": "Immune measurements", "description": "Preserves the context needed to interpret an immune indicator.", "findings": [ { "id": "interpretable-assay-evidence", "name": "Interpretable assay evidence", "description": "Record assay identity, specimen, timing, result and the basis for any protective interpretation.", "questions": [ { "text": "What was measured, in which specimen, by which method, at what time and in which units?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "interpretable-assay-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What source supports using this indicator or threshold to infer protection for this host context, challenge and endpoint?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "interpretable-assay-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "outcome-based-support", "name": "Outcome-based support", "description": "Assesses whether observed outcomes justify the claimed protection.", "findings": [ { "id": "protection-inference-limits", "name": "Protection inference limits", "description": "Record directness of evidence, alternative explanations and uncertainty when applying outcomes to a host.", "questions": [ { "text": "What exposure and outcome evidence supports protection, and could limited exposure or another factor explain the outcome?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "protection-inference-limits-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence concern this host or a reference population, and what limits transfer between them?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "protection-inference-limits-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "persistence-and-context", "name": "Persistence and context", "description": "Tracks how the applicability of an immunity claim depends on time, host condition and challenge conditions.", "rationale": "A past assessment does not by itself settle protection after relevant conditions change.", "layers": [ { "id": "temporal-course", "name": "Temporal course", "description": "Records observed onset, persistence and changes in evidence of protection.", "findings": [ { "id": "time-bounded-protection", "name": "Time-bounded protection", "description": "Distinguish measured change, inferred persistence and periods lacking evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "When was protective capacity assessed, and what repeated observations establish its course?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "time-bounded-protection-q01" }, { "text": "Beyond which date or follow-up interval would continued protection be an unsupported extrapolation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "time-bounded-protection-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "changed-protection-conditions", "name": "Changed protection conditions", "description": "Identifies changes that may invalidate an earlier assessment.", "findings": [ { "id": "reassessment-triggers", "name": "Reassessment triggers", "description": "Record relevant changes in host condition, treatment, challenge identity or exposure context.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which host or challenge conditions differ from those under which protection was established?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "reassessment-triggers-q01" }, { "text": "Which documented change should trigger reassessment, and what evidence would resolve it?", "kind": "action", "id": "reassessment-triggers-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "decision-use-and-limits", "name": "Decision use and limits", "description": "Makes the consequences and limits of relying on an immunity claim explicit.", "rationale": "An agent needs to distinguish an evidence-supported assessment from authorization to change precautions or clinical care.", "layers": [ { "id": "claim-dependent-actions", "name": "Claim-dependent actions", "description": "Connects a proposed action to the precise protection it requires.", "findings": [ { "id": "action-evidence-fit", "name": "Action evidence fit", "description": "Record the decision, its required protective endpoint and the authority governing its use.", "questions": [ { "text": "What action depends on immunity, and does the available evidence address the endpoint and time horizon that action requires?", "kind": "action", "id": "action-evidence-fit-q01" }, { "text": "Which applicable guidance or qualified decision-maker determines whether that evidence is sufficient?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "action-evidence-fit-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "unresolved-or-discordant-status", "name": "Unresolved or discordant status", "description": "Handles missing evidence, conflicting indicators and outcomes inconsistent with the claim.", "findings": [ { "id": "uncertainty-resolution", "name": "Uncertainty resolution", "description": "Preserve disagreement and define an appropriate route to clarify immunity without silently converting uncertainty into a binary status.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which measurements, histories or observed outcomes conflict, and which part of the protection claim remains unresolved?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "uncertainty-resolution-q01" }, { "text": "What additional record, validated assessment or qualified review could resolve the uncertainty relevant to the proposed action?", "kind": "action", "id": "uncertainty-resolution-q02" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does vr.tr.immunity intend biological immunity, and how should its placement in PHY.OBJ represent a capacity borne by a host?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already own this concept, requiring a registry link instead of a separate publication?", "Should this entry cover immunity across animals, plants and microorganisms, or should its initial applicability be explicitly narrower?", "Where should the boundary lie between immunity, constitutive physical barriers, disease tolerance and noninfectious immune targets?", "Which authoritative sources establish usable correlates of protection, interpretation limits and reassessment criteria for each supported host-challenge pair?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 10, "questions": 20 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "device, machine or tool", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a immunity, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a biological host's immunity to a specified challenge, assess the evidence and limits of protection, and identify justified next actions.", "characteristics": { "substance": "material", "origin": "manufactured", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "varies" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: lymphoid tissue, Bronchus-associated lymphoid tissue, tertiary lymphoid structure, diffuse lymphoid tissue, nodular lymphoid tissue, epithelium-associated lymphoid tissue, negative T cell selection, negative thymic T cell selection, negative extrathymic T cell selection, mononuclear phagocyte system, avian immune system, adaptive immune system.", "19 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 130 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is." ], "openQuestionsForResearch": [ "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?", "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?", "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a immunity, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "matter you can touch", "physicalCharacter": [ "Mobility varies between examples.", "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Recognised by form, by the arrangement of its controls, and by markings - a plate, a model number, a certification mark. Form alone rarely separates two models that do very different things." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "lymphoid tissue", "Bronchus-associated lymphoid tissue", "tertiary lymphoid structure", "diffuse lymphoid tissue", "nodular lymphoid tissue", "epithelium-associated lymphoid tissue", "negative T cell selection", "negative thymic T cell selection", "negative extrathymic T cell selection", "mononuclear phagocyte system", "avian immune system", "adaptive immune system" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 130 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 19 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one immunity from another, and a immunity from things that resemble it.", "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.", "layers": [ { "id": "naming-and-identifiers", "name": "Names and identifiers", "description": "The names this thing goes by and the identifiers that survive translation and time.", "findings": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases", "name": "Preferred name, aliases and local names", "description": "Which name to use, which names mean the same thing, and which merely sound similar.", "questions": [ { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the name of a immunity, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a immunity, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a immunity is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers", "name": "Stable identifiers and external keys", "description": "Identifiers that keep pointing at this kind of thing across systems and languages.", "questions": [ { "id": "stable-identifiers-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a immunity, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a immunity, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stable-identifiers-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a immunity is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "classification-and-granularity", "name": "Classification and granularity", "description": "Where a immunity sits among kinds, and how finely a task needs to cut it.", "findings": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents", "name": "Kind, parents and neighbouring kinds", "description": "The classes this thing belongs to and the ones it is next to.", "questions": [ { "id": "kind-and-parents-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a immunity, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a immunity, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "kind-and-parents-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a immunity is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features", "name": "Distinguishing features", "description": "What separates a immunity from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a immunity, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a immunity, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "distinguishing-features-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a immunity is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "form-and-composition", "name": "Form, composition and condition", "description": "What a immunity is made of, what shape and size it takes, and what state it is in.", "rationale": "A physical thing can be measured, and a model that cannot record its measurements cannot support any decision that depends on them.", "layers": [ { "id": "form-and-dimensions", "name": "Form and dimensions", "description": "Shape, size, mass and the ranges these take across examples.", "findings": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions", "name": "Measurable dimensions and their units", "description": "The quantities worth recording and the units they are recorded in.", "questions": [ { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the dimensions of a immunity, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the dimensions of a immunity, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "measurable-dimensions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the dimensions of a immunity is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Materials, parts and how they are put together.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and materials", "description": "What a immunity is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a immunity, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a immunity, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a immunity is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference 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"place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a immunity is, how it got there and where it may go (varies).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a immunity is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a immunity, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the location of a immunity, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "position-and-frame-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the location of a immunity is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-transfer", "name": "Movement and transfer", "description": "How a immunity is carried, installed or relocated.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a immunity, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the movement of a immunity, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "movement-events-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the movement of a immunity is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "state-and-lifecycle", "name": "State and lifecycle", "description": "The states a immunity passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", "description": "The stages worth naming and what moves a immunity between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a immunity, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a immunity, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a immunity is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "observations-and-status", "name": "Observations and current status", "description": "What is observed about a immunity, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a immunity is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.", "questions": [ { "id": "observation-record-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a immunity, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a immunity, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "observation-record-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a immunity is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "function-and-principle", "name": "Function and operating principle", "description": "What immunity is for and how it achieves it.", "rationale": "Two devices with the same name can work on different principles, and the principle is what predicts failure and constrains use.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-function", "name": "Intended function", "description": "The job it does, and the jobs it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-record", "name": "Function, principle and variants", "description": "What it does, how, and which variants do it differently.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-record-q01", "text": "What function does immunity perform, on what operating principle, and which variants differ in that principle?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "function-record-q02", "text": "What use falls outside the intended function but happens in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "capacity-and-rating", "name": "Capacity and rating", "description": "The numbers that say what it can do and where it stops.", "findings": [ { "id": "ratings", "name": "Ratings and their conditions", "description": "Rated capacity, power, throughput and the conditions each assumes.", "questions": [ { "id": "ratings-q01", "text": "What ratings characterise immunity, in what units, and under what stated conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "ratings-q02", "text": "What happens beyond the rating - degradation, refusal, damage - and how is that detected?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "operation-and-state", "name": "Operation, controls and state", "description": "How immunity is operated and what state it is in right now.", "rationale": "An agent acting on a device needs its current state and the controls that change it, not just its specification.", "layers": [ { "id": "controls-and-modes", "name": "Controls and modes", "description": "What can be set, what that changes, and what is interlocked.", "findings": [ { "id": "control-surface", "name": "Control surface and interlocks", "description": "The settings available and the conditions that block them.", "questions": [ { "id": "control-surface-q01", "text": "What controls and modes does immunity have, and what does each change?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "control-surface-q02", "text": "Which actions are interlocked or forbidden in which state, and what must be true before acting?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-maintenance", "name": "Condition and maintenance", "description": "Wear, service intervals, consumables and the line between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "service-record", "name": "Condition, service and consumables", "description": "What is consumed, what is serviced, and how condition is judged.", "questions": [ { "id": "service-record-q01", "text": "What consumables and service does immunity need, at what interval, and on whose authority?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "service-record-q02", "text": "What evidence separates a unit that is working from one that is out of service?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "kind-model-unit", "name": "Kind, model and unit", "description": "Whether a claim about immunity is about the kind, a product line, or one physical unit.", "rationale": "This is the boundary most often got wrong for made things, and getting it wrong mixes a catalogue entry with the machine in the yard.", "layers": [ { "id": "level-of-reference", "name": "Level of reference", "description": "The three levels and what belongs at each.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs to kind, model and unit", "description": "Which properties are shared by all of them and which are not.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "Which facts about immunity hold for every one of them, which for a model, and which only for one unit?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifies an individual unit, and what should an agent do when it has only the kind?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "standards-and-conformity", "name": "Standards and conformity", "description": "The standards a working example must meet and who attests it.", "findings": [ { "id": "conformity", "name": "Standards, marks and attestation", "description": "Which standard applies, who certifies, and what the mark means.", "questions": [ { "id": "conformity-q01", "text": "Which standards govern immunity, issued by whom, and what does conformity actually assert?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "conformity-q02", "text": "What may an agent conclude from a certification mark, and what may it not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a immunity came from and when it held.", "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.", "layers": [ { "id": "source-and-authority", "name": "Source and authority", "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-provenance", "name": "Claim provenance and confidence", "description": "The authority behind each claim about a immunity and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a immunity, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a immunity, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "claim-provenance-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a immunity is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "time-and-versions", "name": "Time, versions and supersession", "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.", "findings": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession", "name": "Validity period and supersession", "description": "How an old claim about a immunity is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a immunity, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a immunity, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a immunity is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 51 } } } }