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    "model": {
        "rank": 807,
        "code": "thing-q11460",
        "model_id": "vr.tr.clothing",
        "name": "clothing",
        "purpose": "Let an agent handle clothing by type, size, material, care, safety and cultural meaning, with labelling rules.",
        "family": "Thing Registry",
        "category": "Physical world and living systems",
        "status": "research-draft",
        "kind": "thing",
        "plane": "PHY",
        "domain": "PHY.OBJ",
        "industry": "",
        "version": "",
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        "tier": 2,
        "score": 219,
        "payload": {
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            "aliasCount": 0,
            "merged": 0,
            "knownIn": 219,
            "facets": null,
            "markers": [],
            "lexicalClass": "",
            "senseRank": null,
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            "source": {
                "dataset": "wikidata",
                "item": "Q11460",
                "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11460",
                "license": "CC0 1.0"
            }
        },
        "research": {
            "vercy": "1.0-draft",
            "publication": {
                "status": "research-draft",
                "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed",
                "publishableCanonical": false,
                "generatedAt": "2026-09-11T05:28:49Z",
                "providers": [
                    "Claude"
                ],
                "breadth": "written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify",
                "pass": 2,
                "wave": 1,
                "engine": "claude"
            },
            "metaModel": {
                "id": "THING-Q11460",
                "registryId": "vr.tr.clothing",
                "name": "clothing",
                "version": "0.2.0-wave.1",
                "entryKind": "thing",
                "family": "Thing Registry",
                "domain": [
                    "PHY.OBJ"
                ],
                "status": "research-draft"
            },
            "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q11460/",
            "model": {
                "registry_id": "vr.tr.clothing",
                "name": "clothing",
                "purpose": "Let an agent handle clothing by type, size, material, care, safety and cultural meaning, with labelling rules.",
                "definition": "Items worn on the body, such as garments, footwear and accessories, for protection, modesty, identity, adornment or function.",
                "what_it_is_for": "Protecting the body, expressing identity and meeting social and work requirements.",
                "affordances": [
                    "wear and choose it",
                    "size and fit it",
                    "wash and repair it",
                    "buy, sell and recycle it"
                ],
                "distinguishing_features": [
                    "Worn on the body",
                    "Sizes differ by system and brand",
                    "Labelling of fibre and care is regulated",
                    "Protective clothing is personal protective equipment"
                ],
                "appearance": "Garments of textile, leather and other materials in countless forms and styles.",
                "visual_identification": [
                    "Garment type and cut",
                    "Care, size and fibre labels",
                    "Uniforms and protective clothing with markings"
                ],
                "physical_properties": [
                    {
                        "quantity": "sizes",
                        "typical_range": "system-specific",
                        "unit": "size codes",
                        "note": "EN 13402 and national systems"
                    }
                ],
                "families_and_kinds": [
                    "everyday garments",
                    "footwear",
                    "accessories",
                    "uniforms",
                    "protective clothing",
                    "traditional and religious dress"
                ],
                "related_models": [
                    {
                        "relation": "is made of",
                        "target": "textile",
                        "why": "materials"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "has part",
                        "target": "pocket",
                        "why": "components"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is a kind of",
                        "target": "artifact",
                        "why": "made thing"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is regulated as",
                        "target": "personal protective equipment",
                        "why": "when protective"
                    }
                ],
                "identifiers": [],
                "standards_and_regulation": [
                    "EU Textile Regulation 1007/2011",
                    "ISO 3758 care labelling",
                    "EN 13402 size designation",
                    "EU PPE Regulation 2016/425"
                ],
                "failure_modes_and_hazards": [
                    "Flammable garments",
                    "Drawstrings on children clothing",
                    "Harmful chemicals",
                    "Poor fit of protective clothing"
                ],
                "in_scope": [],
                "out_of_scope": [],
                "characteristics": []
            },
            "sources": [],
            "structure": {
                "bundles": [
                    {
                        "id": "type-and-fit",
                        "name": "Type and fit",
                        "description": "What and what size.",
                        "rationale": "Type and size decide use.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "type",
                                "name": "Type",
                                "description": "Garment category.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "type-finding",
                                        "name": "Type",
                                        "description": "The garment type.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What type of clothing is this?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "What is it for?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "size",
                                "name": "Size",
                                "description": "Size and fit.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "size-finding",
                                        "name": "Size",
                                        "description": "Size and system.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What size is it, in which system?",
                                                "kind": "measurement"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "How does it convert to other systems?",
                                                "kind": "measurement"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "material-and-care",
                        "name": "Material and care",
                        "description": "What it is made of and how to care.",
                        "rationale": "Material decides care and comfort.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "material",
                                "name": "Material",
                                "description": "Fibres.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "material-finding",
                                        "name": "Materials",
                                        "description": "Fibre content.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What is it made of?",
                                                "kind": "measurement"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the label compliant?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "care",
                                "name": "Care",
                                "description": "Washing.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "care-finding",
                                        "name": "Care",
                                        "description": "Care instructions.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How should it be washed and dried?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Can it be repaired?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "safety",
                        "name": "Safety",
                        "description": "Protection and hazards.",
                        "rationale": "Some clothing protects; some poses hazards.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "protection",
                                "name": "Protection",
                                "description": "PPE.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "protection-finding",
                                        "name": "Protection",
                                        "description": "Protective performance.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Does it provide certified protection, to which standard?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is it the right size to protect?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "hazards",
                                "name": "Hazards",
                                "description": "Fire, cords, chemicals.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "hazards-finding",
                                        "name": "Hazards",
                                        "description": "Hazards present.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Does it present fire, cord or chemical hazards?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is it suitable for children?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "culture-and-end",
                        "name": "Culture and end of life",
                        "description": "Meaning and disposal.",
                        "rationale": "Clothing carries meaning and waste.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "culture",
                                "name": "Culture",
                                "description": "Meaning.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "culture-finding",
                                        "name": "Meaning",
                                        "description": "Cultural significance.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What cultural or religious significance does it have?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "How should it be described respectfully?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "reuse",
                                "name": "Reuse",
                                "description": "Resale and recycling.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "reuse-finding",
                                        "name": "End of life",
                                        "description": "Reuse options.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Can it be resold, donated or recycled?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Where?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "openQuestions": [
                "Should garment types be separate entries?",
                "How should size systems be converted?",
                "How should cultural dress be represented respectfully?"
            ],
            "statistics": {
                "bundles": 4,
                "layers": 8,
                "findings": 8,
                "questions": 16
            }
        },
        "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 clothing, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.",
            "whatItIs": "Let an agent handle clothing by type, size, material, care, safety and cultural meaning, with labelling rules.",
            "characteristics": {
                "substance": "material",
                "origin": "manufactured",
                "agency": "inert",
                "mobility": "varies"
            },
            "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [
                "observed and measured"
            ],
            "distinguishingFeatures": [
                "Described in 219 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 clothing, 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": [],
            "standing": "Described in 219 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.",
            "structure": {
                "bundles": [
                    {
                        "id": "identity-and-classification",
                        "name": "Identity, naming and classification",
                        "description": "How an agent tells one clothing from another, and a clothing 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 clothing, 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 clothing, 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 clothing 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 clothing, 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 clothing, 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 clothing 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 clothing 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 clothing, 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 clothing, 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 clothing 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 clothing from the things most often confused with it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a clothing, 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 clothing, 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 clothing 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 clothing 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 clothing, 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 clothing, 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 clothing 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 clothing is built from and which parts are replaceable.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "parts-and-materials-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a clothing, 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 clothing, 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 clothing 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 between working and broken.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "condition-assessment",
                                        "name": "Condition, damage and health",
                                        "description": "How the condition of a clothing is judged and by whom.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "condition-assessment-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a clothing, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "condition-assessment-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the condition of a clothing, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "condition-assessment-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the condition of a clothing is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "place-and-movement",
                        "name": "Place and movement",
                        "description": "Where a clothing 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 clothing is, and what that position is measured against.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "position-and-frame-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a clothing, 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 clothing, 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 clothing 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 clothing 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 clothing, 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 clothing, 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 clothing 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 clothing 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 clothing between them.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a clothing, 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 clothing, 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 clothing 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 clothing, how often and by whom.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "observation-record",
                                        "name": "Observation record",
                                        "description": "How an observation of a clothing 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 clothing, 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 clothing, 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 clothing 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 clothing 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 clothing 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 clothing, 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 clothing 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 clothing 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 clothing 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 clothing 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 clothing 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 clothing, 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 clothing 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 clothing and how confident it is.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a clothing, 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 clothing, 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 clothing 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 clothing is retired without being erased.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a clothing, 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 clothing, 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 clothing 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
            }
        }
    }
}