{ "model": { "rank": 3126, "code": "thing-q131227", "model_id": "vr.tr.amanita-muscaria", "name": "Amanita muscaria", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise candidate Amanita muscaria, assess identification confidence and biological condition, and decide appropriate observation, sampling, handling and exposure-response actions.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q131227/", "tier": 2, "score": 90, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 90, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q131227", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131227", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T14:56:24Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.04997784, "turns": 2, "seconds": 162.3, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 105.6, "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: 01a07c5c-5acf-7b13-864f-8572bea7d88e\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: Amanita muscaria\nRegistry id: vr.tr.amanita-muscaria\nPlane / domain: PHY / PHY.LIV\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry:" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q131227", "registryId": "vr.tr.amanita-muscaria", "name": "Amanita muscaria", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "PHY.LIV" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q131227/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.amanita-muscaria", "name": "Amanita muscaria", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise candidate Amanita muscaria, assess identification confidence and biological condition, and decide appropriate observation, sampling, handling and exposure-response actions.", "definition": "Amanita muscaria (L.) Lam. is the type species of Amanita (Amanitaceae, Agaricales): an ectomycorrhizal basidiomycete whose fruit bodies typically bear a red to orange pileus with white universal-veil warts, free white gills, a pendulous annulus, a bulbous stipe with concentric volval ruffs, inamyloid white spores, and isoxazole toxins (ibotenic acid and muscimol) rather than amatoxins.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the identity, diagnostic evidence, developmental condition, ecological relationships and action constraints of Amanita muscaria under registry entry vr.tr.amanita-muscaria, distinguishing a taxon assertion from an observed fruiting body, sample or inferred fungal individual.", "in_scope": [ "Taxonomic interpretation of Amanita muscaria and uncertainty around regional species boundaries", "Recognition from complete fruiting bodies, diagnostic photographs and linked laboratory evidence", "Development, weathering, damage and preservation of observed material", "Fruiting location, season and evidence of association with host trees", "Specimen-specific chemical evidence, exposure concerns and handling decisions" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Independent models of neighbouring Amanita species or names not folded into this registry entry", "Whole-forest condition and host-tree health", "Clinical diagnosis and treatment of human or animal poisoning", "Manufacture, formulation and sale of mushroom-derived commercial products", "Cultural depictions, religious practices and historical symbolism", "Preparation instructions or dosing for consumption" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Inspect the combined cap, gills, ring and complete stem base: coloured cap with pale veil remnants, white free gills, a hanging ring and a bulb with broken veil bands support a fly-agaric identification; cap colour alone does not. [Vancouver Mycological Society](https://vanmyco.org/about-mushrooms/poisonous/amanita-muscaria/)", "For confusion with panther-like Amanita, compare loose, ascending basal veil bands with an abrupt basal collar; require a regional identification key rather than treating this contrast as universally decisive. [Vancouver Mycological Society](https://vanmyco.org/about-mushrooms/poisonous/amanita-muscaria/)", "For a faded or apparently spotless candidate, inspect sheltered veil remnants and record weathering: cap warts can wash away, so their absence alone does not exclude the identification. [Vancouver Mycological Society](https://vanmyco.org/about-mushrooms/poisonous/amanita-muscaria/)", "Where microscopy is needed, compare a white spore print and smooth, non-amyloid spores against the regional key; these supporting characters do not uniquely identify the species. [Vancouver Mycological Society](https://vanmyco.org/about-mushrooms/poisonous/amanita-muscaria/)", "For closely related fly agarics, test the identification against the authority's geographic and molecular circumscription; named colour forms need not correspond to genetic lineages. [Vancouver Mycological Society](https://vanmyco.org/about-mushrooms/poisonous/amanita-muscaria/)" ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Taxonomic interpretation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Authority-qualified species concept; strict sense, broad sense or unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a familiar name from silently combining different regional taxonomic concepts." }, { "name": "Identification confidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Candidate, supported, expert-reviewed, unresolved or rejected; with evidence and reviewer", "why_it_matters": "Controls whether an agent can report a species occurrence or must retain a broader identification." }, { "name": "Observed biological unit", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Fruiting body, cluster, tissue sample, spore sample, mycelium or colonised root", "why_it_matters": "Avoids equating visible mushrooms with separate fungal individuals." }, { "name": "Cap diameter", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Millimetres, with developmental stage and measurement method", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison with an identification key without making size decisive." }, { "name": "Cap pigmentation and veil remnants", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Observed colour; wart colour, distribution and persistence; obscured or unobserved", "why_it_matters": "Records conspicuous recognition evidence while preserving effects of weathering." }, { "name": "Gill attachment and pigmentation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Free, attached or unresolved; observed colour", "why_it_matters": "Checks the underside rather than relying on a recognisable cap." }, { "name": "Ring and basal veil configuration", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Ring form; bulb form; broken bands, collar, sack-like structure, absent or unobserved", "why_it_matters": "Preserves evidence needed to compare confusable Amanita." }, { "name": "Development and integrity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Enclosed, expanding, mature or senescent; intact, weathered, damaged or decomposing", "why_it_matters": "Explains missing characters and suitability for further examination." }, { "name": "Spore evidence", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Length and width in micrometres; sample count, print colour and amyloid reaction", "why_it_matters": "Supports microscopic comparison when field evidence is insufficient." }, { "name": "Host association", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Linked tree taxon; nearby, suspected host or root association supported by evidence", "why_it_matters": "Separates proximity from demonstrated ecological association." }, { "name": "Occurrence context", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Linked locality, observation date, substrate and location uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Allows regional identification and repeat observations to be interpreted." }, { "name": "Ibotenic acid and muscimol evidence", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Not tested, not detected with detection limit, or concentration in mg/kg with fresh/dry basis and assay", "why_it_matters": "Keeps measured chemistry separate from assumptions based on appearance or species name." } ], "affordances": [ "Document cap, underside and complete stem base, with scale and developmental stage.", "Compare observed characters with a geographically appropriate key and refer unresolved candidates to a mycologist.", "Link authorised voucher, microscopy and sequence sampling to the original fruiting body.", "Revisit a fruiting site while keeping mushroom counts separate from fungal-individual counts.", "Label and segregate collected material to reduce accidental ingestion and preserve identification evidence.", "Route suspected ingestion to poison-control or veterinary expertise with available specimen and exposure details." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikipedia-am", "title": "Amanita muscaria", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria", "what_it_supports": "Taxonomy, infraspecific taxa, morphology and measurements, lookalikes, ecology, toxins, ethnomycology, and the 2024 FDA food-ingredient action.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "wikidata-q131227", "title": "Amanita muscaria (Q131227)", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131227", "what_it_supports": "Stable identifiers (Wikidata, Index Fungorum, iNaturalist) and listed infraspecific names.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "index-fungorum-161267", "title": "Index Fungorum Name Record: Amanita muscaria (L.) Lam.", "url": "http://www.indexfungorum.org/Names/NamesRecord.asp?RecordID=161267", "what_it_supports": "Current name, basionym Agaricus muscarius L., sanctioning by Fries, and Index Fungorum registration identifier 161267.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "fda-2024", "title": "FDA Alerts Industry and Consumers about the Use of Amanita Muscaria or its Constituents in Food", "url": "", "what_it_supports": "U.S. determination that the mushroom, extracts, muscimol, ibotenic acid and muscarine are not GRAS and are unapproved food additives.", "url_status": "dead" }, { "id": "ajpm-2024", "title": "Need for a Public Health Response to the Unregulated Sales of Amanita muscaria Mushrooms", "url": "https://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797(24)00163-6/fulltext", "what_it_supports": "Unscheduled status under the U.S. Controlled Substances Act, commercial edible products, and selected national sales restrictions (with the caveat that some listed jurisdictions come from manufacturer claims).", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "inchem-pim-g026", "title": "Amanita muscaria, Amanita pantherina and others (PIM G026)", "url": "https://www.inchem.org/documents/pims/fungi/pimg026.htm", "what_it_supports": "Pantherina-muscaria poisoning syndrome, isoxazole toxins in all parts of the fruit body, colour variants, and worldwide temperate distribution.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "michelot-2003", "title": "Amanita muscaria: chemistry, biology, toxicology and ethnomycology", "url": "https://blossomanalysis.com/papers/amanita-muscaria-chemistry-biology-toxicology-and-ethnomycology/", "what_it_supports": "Ibotenic acid and muscimol as principal actives; HPLC concentrations in cap versus stipe; typical fresh fruit-body mass and ibotenic-acid content.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "taxon-and-identification", "name": "Taxon and identification", "description": "Establish what the Amanita muscaria name means for this record and how strongly the material supports that assignment.", "rationale": "Regional fly-agaric concepts and incomplete observations can make a familiar name misleading.", "layers": [ { "id": "taxonomic-circumscription", "name": "Taxonomic circumscription", "description": "Anchor the registry name to an explicit taxonomic interpretation.", "findings": [ { "id": "authority-qualified-name", "name": "Authority-qualified name", "description": "Record the treatment used, its geographic applicability and unresolved relationships to neighbouring taxa.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which taxonomic authority and dated treatment define Amanita muscaria for this record?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "authority-qualified-name-q01" }, { "text": "Does that treatment use Amanita muscaria narrowly or for a broader fly-agaric group?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "authority-qualified-name-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "identification-support", "name": "Identification support", "description": "Keep the assigned name traceable to examined material and diagnostic reasoning.", "findings": [ { "id": "reviewable-determination", "name": "Reviewable determination", "description": "Distinguish a visual suggestion from an expert determination and from molecular support.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which photographs, voucher, microscopy observations or sequences support this determination?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "reviewable-determination-q01" }, { "text": "Which plausible regional alternatives remain, and what additional evidence would resolve them?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "reviewable-determination-q02" }, { "text": "Should the agent retain Amanita muscaria, report a broader group or request expert review?", "kind": "action", "id": "reviewable-determination-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "diagnostic-fruiting-body", "name": "Diagnostic fruiting body", "description": "Record the combination of visible and microscopic characters needed to examine a candidate fly agaric.", "rationale": "Identification depends on several structures, including parts often missing from photographs or picked specimens.", "layers": [ { "id": "cap-gills-and-veils", "name": "Cap, gills and veils", "description": "Examine the cap, underside, ring and complete stem base together.", "findings": [ { "id": "complete-character-combination", "name": "Complete character combination", "description": "Record observed character agreement and contradictions without treating one striking feature as decisive.", "questions": [ { "text": "What cap colour, veil remnants, gill attachment, gill colour and ring configuration are visible?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "complete-character-combination-q01" }, { "text": "Is the complete bulb visible, and what arrangement of veil remnants surrounds it?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "complete-character-combination-q02" }, { "text": "Which observed characters distinguish this specimen from the regional alternatives in the chosen key?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "complete-character-combination-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "microscopic-comparison", "name": "Microscopic comparison", "description": "Capture spore evidence when macroscopic examination leaves a meaningful identification gap.", "findings": [ { "id": "spore-character-support", "name": "Spore character support", "description": "Associate spore observations with sampled material, methods and the limits of their diagnostic value.", "questions": [ { "text": "What spore-print colour, spore dimensions, shape and amyloid reaction were observed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "spore-character-support-q01" }, { "text": "Which specimen, preparation method, reagent and measurement count produced these observations?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "spore-character-support-q02" }, { "text": "Do these results discriminate the remaining candidates, or is another method required?", "kind": "action", "id": "spore-character-support-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "development-and-material-condition", "name": "Development and material condition", "description": "Interpret visible features and specimen usefulness in relation to development, damage and preservation.", "rationale": "A young, rain-washed or decomposing mushroom can conceal the characters needed for recognition.", "layers": [ { "id": "developmental-visibility", "name": "Developmental visibility", "description": "Relate the developmental stage to which diagnostic structures can actually be assessed.", "findings": [ { "id": "stage-dependent-observability", "name": "Stage-dependent observability", "description": "Distinguish structures not yet exposed from structures demonstrated to be absent.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the fruiting body enclosed, expanding, mature or senescent?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "stage-dependent-observability-q01" }, { "text": "Which cap, gill, ring or basal characters are obscured by its developmental stage?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "stage-dependent-observability-q02" }, { "text": "Would a later observation improve identification without collecting the fruiting body?", "kind": "action", "id": "stage-dependent-observability-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "damage-and-preservation", "name": "Damage and preservation", "description": "Record changes that reduce diagnostic or analytical reliability.", "findings": [ { "id": "remaining-evidence-quality", "name": "Remaining evidence quality", "description": "Assess weathering, missing parts, decay and post-collection alteration separately from identification.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which structures are missing, eroded, discoloured, insect-damaged or decomposing?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "remaining-evidence-quality-q01" }, { "text": "What drying, freezing, chemical preservation or other treatment occurred after collection?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "remaining-evidence-quality-q02" }, { "text": "Is the remaining material suitable for morphology, sequencing, chemical analysis or only an uncertain occurrence record?", "kind": "action", "id": "remaining-evidence-quality-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "host-and-fruiting-context", "name": "Host and fruiting context", "description": "Connect observations to their locality, potential tree associates and repeat-fruiting history.", "rationale": "Ecological context supports interpretation, but nearby trees and visible mushroom counts can be overinterpreted.", "layers": [ { "id": "tree-association", "name": "Tree association", "description": "Separate a nearby tree from a demonstrated fungal host relationship.", "findings": [ { "id": "association-evidence", "name": "Association evidence", "description": "Record candidate host taxa and the evidence supporting each ecological link.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which identified trees occur near the fruiting body, and how were their identities established?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "association-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Is the association based on proximity, root examination or linked molecular evidence?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "association-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "occurrence-and-recurrence", "name": "Occurrence and recurrence", "description": "Record fruiting events without assuming that each mushroom represents a separate organism.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-fruiting-observation", "name": "Bounded fruiting observation", "description": "Tie counts and recurrence claims to a defined surveyed place, time and observation effort.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where and when were fruiting bodies observed, and what area and search effort were covered?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "bounded-fruiting-observation-q01" }, { "text": "Does this record describe one fruiting body, a cluster, a site occurrence or evidence of a particular fungal individual?", "kind": "definition", "id": "bounded-fruiting-observation-q02" }, { "text": "What evidence permits linking this event to earlier fruiting at the site?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bounded-fruiting-observation-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "chemical-hazard-and-actions", "name": "Chemical hazard and actions", "description": "Represent chemical evidence and decisions concerning collected material or suspected exposure.", "rationale": "Amanita muscaria's principal active agents include muscimol and ibotenic acid; the model must distinguish species-level hazard knowledge from evidence about a particular sample. [European Union Drugs Agency](https://www.euda.europa.eu/publications/drug-profiles/hallucinogenic-mushrooms_en)", "layers": [ { "id": "sample-specific-chemistry", "name": "Sample-specific chemistry", "description": "Keep measured chemical composition attached to the actual tested material.", "findings": [ { "id": "assay-and-inference-limits", "name": "Assay and inference limits", "description": "Record chemical results and prevent unsupported transfer to other specimens or processed products.", "questions": [ { "text": "Were ibotenic acid and muscimol measured, and what were the results, units, detection limits and fresh- or dry-mass basis?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "assay-and-inference-limits-q01" }, { "text": "Which tissue or pooled material was tested, and what processing preceded the assay?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "assay-and-inference-limits-q02" }, { "text": "Which conclusions about untested material remain unsupported by this assay?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "assay-and-inference-limits-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "handling-and-exposure-decisions", "name": "Handling and exposure decisions", "description": "Determine appropriate observation, collection, segregation and referral actions for the actual context.", "findings": [ { "id": "contextual-action-boundaries", "name": "Contextual action boundaries", "description": "Link each proposed action to identification uncertainty, access conditions and the intended use of the material.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the intended action photography, authorised sampling, storage, relocation or disposal, and what local constraints apply?", "kind": "action", "id": "contextual-action-boundaries-q01" }, { "text": "How will collected material remain labelled and segregated from food and accessible ingestion pathways?", "kind": "action", "id": "contextual-action-boundaries-q02" } ] }, { "id": "suspected-ingestion-handoff", "name": "Suspected ingestion handoff", "description": "Preserve specimen identity and exposure information for qualified assessment without making clinical conclusions in this model.", "questions": [ { "text": "What material was reportedly ingested, by whom or what animal, at what time, and with what uncertainty about identity and quantity?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "suspected-ingestion-handoff-q01" }, { "text": "Which locally appropriate poison-control or veterinary service should receive the exposure details and available specimen evidence?", "kind": "action", "id": "suspected-ingestion-handoff-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "var. muscaria (Eurasian scarlet fly agaric, the nomenclatural type)", "subsp./var. flavivolvata (western American red caps with yellow warts, Alaska to the Andes)", "var. guessowii (northeastern North American yellow-to-orange form; var. formosa is treated as a synonym)", "var. inzengae (Inzenga's fly agaric: pale yellow to orange-yellow cap and often tan stipe)", "var. alba (white-capped morph, uncommon and scattered)", "Amanita persicina (peach-to-salmon southeastern North American taxon, now often ranked as a separate species)", "cryptic phylogenetic clades (Eurasian, Eurasian-subalpine, North American) that make the current species a species complex rather than a set of colour varieties" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Amanita muscaria this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q131227", "note": "Species item; common names include fly agaric and fly amanita." }, { "scheme": "Index Fungorum", "value_or_pattern": "161267", "note": "Current name Amanita muscaria (L.) Lam., Encycl. Méth. Bot. 1(1): 111 (1783)." }, { "scheme": "iNaturalist taxon ID", "value_or_pattern": "48715", "note": "Observational/citizen-science taxon key." }, { "scheme": "ICNafp scientific name", "value_or_pattern": "Amanita muscaria (L.) Lam.", "note": "Basionym Agaricus muscarius L. 1753; sanctioned by Fries." }, { "scheme": "Index Fungorum UUID", "value_or_pattern": "{1CB17D41-36B9-11D5-9548-00D0592D548C}", "note": "Persistent nomenclatural record identifier." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of Amanita muscaria this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (ICNafp), issued under the International Botanical Congress / IAPT: governs the sanctioned name Amanita muscaria (L.) Lam.", "U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), December 2024 constituent update and industry letter: A. muscaria, its extracts, muscimol, ibotenic acid and muscarine are not GRAS and are unapproved food additives; food containing them is adulterated under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act.", "U.S. Controlled Substances Act (Drug Enforcement Administration): the mushroom, muscimol and ibotenic acid are not federally scheduled.", "Louisiana Revised Statute 40:989.1 (Act 159): unlawful to produce, manufacture, distribute or possess A. muscaria for human consumption, with an exception for ornamental or landscaping use.", "Netherlands control of A. muscaria and A. pantherina (effective 1 December 2008), closing former smart-shop sale.", "Australian Poisons Standard: muscimol is a Schedule 9 prohibited substance, which makes A. muscaria illegal to possess, sell, transport or cultivate." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Amanita muscaria this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Ectomycorrhizal associate of birch, pine, spruce, fir, oak and cedar in temperate and boreal woodland; now also a weed-like introduction with pine plantations in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and parts of South America.", "Traditional Siberian shamanic inebriant and entheogen; some European and Japanese food uses after parboiling and discarding the water.", "Historical domestic insecticide: caps crumbled into milk to kill flies (the source of the epithet muscaria).", "Recreational and commercial psychoactive use of dried caps, teas and 2020s 'legal psychedelic' gummies and extracts.", "Iconographic use in European folklore, children's illustration, and commercial art (fairy-tale toadstools, Super Mario mushrooms)." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Amanita muscaria this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "pileus diameter", "typical_range": "5-30", "unit": "cm" }, { "quantity": "stipe length", "typical_range": "5-20", "unit": "cm" }, { "quantity": "stipe width", "typical_range": "1-2", "unit": "cm" }, { "quantity": "basidiospore size (inamyloid)", "typical_range": "9-13 × 6.5-9", "unit": "µm" }, { "quantity": "adult muscimol active dose", "typical_range": "about 6", "unit": "mg" }, { "quantity": "adult ibotenic-acid active dose", "typical_range": "30-60", "unit": "mg" }, { "quantity": "ibotenic acid in fresh caps (HPLC)", "typical_range": "about 990", "unit": "mg/kg" }, { "quantity": "muscimol in fresh caps (HPLC)", "typical_range": "about 380", "unit": "mg/kg" }, { "quantity": "fresh fruit-body mass", "typical_range": "60-70", "unit": "g" }, { "quantity": "symptom onset after ingestion", "typical_range": "30-90", "unit": "min" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of Amanita muscaria this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Pantherina-muscaria (isoxazole) poisoning: nausea, twitching, cholinergic-like sweating and salivation, ataxia, delirium, agitation, hallucinations, seizures and coma; onset in under two hours.", "Potency varies by season and region; spring and summer fruitings have been reported with up to ten times more ibotenic acid and muscimol than autumn fruitings.", "Drying decarboxylates ibotenic acid to the more potent GABAA agonist muscimol, so dried material is not milder.", "Accidental paediatric ingestion of the conspicuous red-and-white fruit bodies.", "Commercial food products and extracts sold as legal psychedelics have produced clusters of poisonings; fatal wild-mushroom deaths are rare with modern care, but extract products have been linked to at least one death.", "Misidentification after rain washes off the white warts, leaving a plain red or orange cap.", "Invasive spread in Southern Hemisphere plantations and some Australian rainforest, with potential displacement of native mycorrhizal fungi.", "Ibotenic acid is an NMDA-receptor excitotoxin; muscimol is a potent GABAA agonist - neither is an amatoxin, but field confusion with amatoxin Amanitas is lethal in the other direction." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Amanita muscaria this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Eurasia: classic scarlet var. muscaria with birch and conifers; vernacular names often mean 'fly mushroom' (German Fliegenpilz) or the 'mad/false' counterpart of Caesar's mushroom (Catalan oriol foll, Italian ovolo matto).", "Western North America to the Andes: red caps with yellow warts treated as subsp. flavivolvata.", "Northeastern North America: yellow-orange var. guessowii is the common field form.", "Southeastern United States: peach-salmon populations now widely called A. persicina rather than A. muscaria.", "Siberia: documented ritual inebriant use; Europe: folklore and occasional detoxified food; United States 2020s: unscheduled retail extracts until the FDA food ban.", "Southern Hemisphere: not native; naturalised and locally invasive with introduced Pinus, and in New Zealand also with Nothofagus.", "Legal geography is patchy: food-illegal in the United States, consumption-banned in Louisiana, controlled in the Netherlands, muscimol Schedule 9 in Australia; unscheduled in most other jurisdictions." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Amanita muscaria this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Amanita caesarea (Caesar's mushroom) and Mexican A. basii", "difference": "Edible lookalikes have an orange-red cap without persistent white warts, bright yellow gills, stipe and ring, and a distinct sack-like white volva; A. muscaria has white gills/stipe/ring and concentric volval ruffs." }, { "name": "Amanita pantherina (panther cap)", "difference": "Grey-brown (not red) cap with white warts; same isoxazole chemistry, often at higher or more variable concentration; separated by pileus colour and typically a more clearly marginate bulb." }, { "name": "Amanita xanthocephala (vermilion grisette, Australia)", "difference": "Native eucalypt associate that lacks the white warts and the annulus of introduced A. muscaria." }, { "name": "Amanita phalloides / destroying angels (A. virosa, A. bisporigera and allies)", "difference": "Green or entirely white caps, saccate volva, amatoxins with delayed hepatotoxicity; A. muscaria is red/orange (or rarely white) with concentric ruffs and rapid CNS isoxazole effects. A white A. muscaria var. alba is the dangerous confusion case - check volva form and the yellowish subcuticular layer of young muscaria buttons." }, { "name": "Immature puffballs", "difference": "A sectioned puffball is solid white throughout; a young Amanita button shows a developing stipe, gills and cap inside the universal veil." }, { "name": "Amanita persicina and A. chrysoblema", "difference": "Closest members of stirps Muscaria; separated in current practice by pileus colour (peach versus scarlet versus white) plus geography, pending a full species-complex revision." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Amanita muscaria this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which current taxonomic authority should define this registry entry, and how should records using broader historical fly-agaric concepts be retained without creating unrequested registry splits?", "Which regional look-alikes require explicit comparison, and what minimum character set supports a defensible identification in each region?", "Which sequence markers and curated reference specimens reliably distinguish Amanita muscaria from its closest regional relatives?", "What evidence is sufficient to infer a host relationship or continuity of a fungal individual across separate fruiting events?", "How representative are chemical measurements across tissues, developmental stages, localities and preservation histories, and which inferences must remain sample-specific?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 19, "questions": 37 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "organism", "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 Amanita muscaria, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise candidate Amanita muscaria, assess identification confidence and biological condition, and decide appropriate observation, sampling, handling and exposure-response actions.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 90 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 Amanita muscaria, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a living thing", "physicalCharacter": [ "Moves under its own power or of its own accord.", "Acts on its own behalf.", "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 diagnostic characters, and those differ by life stage - the young of many kinds are mistaken for other kinds entirely. A sighting is settled by characters, a photograph and a place, not by a name alone." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 90 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 Amanita muscaria from another, and a Amanita muscaria 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 Amanita muscaria, 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 Amanita muscaria, 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 Amanita muscaria 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 Amanita muscaria, 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 Amanita muscaria, 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 Amanita muscaria 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 Amanita muscaria 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 Amanita muscaria, 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 Amanita muscaria, 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 Amanita muscaria 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 Amanita muscaria from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Amanita muscaria, 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 Amanita muscaria, 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 Amanita muscaria 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 Amanita muscaria 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 Amanita muscaria, 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 Amanita muscaria, 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 Amanita muscaria 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": "Anatomy, parts and life stage.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and life stages", "description": "The parts of a Amanita muscaria and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a Amanita muscaria, 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 Amanita muscaria, 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 Amanita muscaria 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 Amanita muscaria is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a Amanita muscaria, 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 Amanita muscaria, 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 Amanita muscaria 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 Amanita muscaria is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).", "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 Amanita muscaria is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Amanita muscaria, 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 Amanita muscaria, 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 Amanita muscaria 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 Amanita muscaria moves on its own.", "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 Amanita muscaria, 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 Amanita muscaria, 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 Amanita muscaria 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 Amanita muscaria 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 Amanita muscaria between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Amanita muscaria, 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 Amanita muscaria, 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 Amanita muscaria 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 Amanita muscaria, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Amanita muscaria 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 Amanita muscaria, 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 Amanita muscaria, 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 Amanita muscaria is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "taxonomic-placement", "name": "Taxonomic placement and identification", "description": "What Amanita muscaria is called scientifically, by whose authority, and how a specimen is recognised.", "rationale": "Names change with revisions while the organism does not, so a name without its authority and date cannot be reconciled later.", "layers": [ { "id": "accepted-name", "name": "Accepted name and synonymy", "description": "The current binomial, its author and date, and the names it replaced.", "findings": [ { "id": "name-and-authority", "name": "Accepted name, authority and synonyms", "description": "What to record so a later revision can be applied without losing the old data.", "questions": [ { "id": "name-and-authority-q01", "text": "What is the accepted scientific name of Amanita muscaria, with its author and year, and which synonyms does it absorb?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "name-and-authority-q02", "text": "Which taxonomic authority is being followed, and what would a competing authority say?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "field-identification", "name": "Field identification", "description": "The characters that separate Amanita muscaria from what it is confused with.", "findings": [ { "id": "diagnostic-characters", "name": "Diagnostic characters and confusable kinds", "description": "Features that settle an identification, and those that only suggest it.", "questions": [ { "id": "diagnostic-characters-q01", "text": "Which observable characters distinguish Amanita muscaria from its closest look-alikes, and at which life stage are they visible?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "diagnostic-characters-q02", "text": "What evidence is enough to record an identification as confirmed rather than provisional?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "life-cycle-and-condition", "name": "Life stages, condition and behaviour", "description": "What Amanita muscaria does over its life and how its state is judged.", "rationale": "Stage and condition change what may be done - handled, treated, harvested, left alone - and both are observations with a time.", "layers": [ { "id": "stages-and-reproduction", "name": "Stages and reproduction", "description": "Development from origin to death, including forms that look like different animals.", "findings": [ { "id": "life-stages", "name": "Life stages and their marks", "description": "The stages worth recording and what tells them apart.", "questions": [ { "id": "life-stages-q01", "text": "What stages does Amanita muscaria pass through, and what observable change marks each transition?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "life-stages-q02", "text": "Which stages are so unlike the adult that they are mistaken for another kind?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "health-and-condition", "name": "Health and condition", "description": "How condition is assessed and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition assessment", "description": "Signs of health, injury and stress, and who is competent to judge them.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "How is the condition of Amanita muscaria judged, on what scale, and by whom?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "What condition obliges an agent to act, and what act is permitted to whom?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "range-and-status", "name": "Habitat, range and conservation status", "description": "Where Amanita muscaria lives and how threatened it is.", "rationale": "Range and status govern what is lawful, and both are assessments with an assessor and a year rather than facts of nature.", "layers": [ { "id": "habitat-and-range", "name": "Habitat and range", "description": "Native range, introductions and the habitat it needs.", "findings": [ { "id": "range-record", "name": "Range, introductions and habitat", "description": "What to record about where it is found and how it got there.", "questions": [ { "id": "range-record-q01", "text": "What is the native range of Amanita muscaria, where has it been introduced, and what habitat does it require?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "range-record-q02", "text": "What distinguishes a native record from an introduced or vagrant one?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "protection-status", "name": "Protection and legal status", "description": "Conservation assessments and the rules that follow from them.", "findings": [ { "id": "status-and-rules", "name": "Conservation status and legal consequence", "description": "The assessment, its date, and what it forbids or requires where.", "questions": [ { "id": "status-and-rules-q01", "text": "What conservation status does Amanita muscaria hold, under which assessment and year?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "status-and-rules-q02", "text": "What does that status forbid or require of an agent, and in which jurisdiction?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Amanita muscaria 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 Amanita muscaria and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Amanita muscaria, 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 Amanita muscaria, 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 Amanita muscaria 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 Amanita muscaria is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Amanita muscaria, 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 Amanita muscaria, 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 Amanita muscaria 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 } } } }