{ "model": { "rank": 3344, "code": "thing-q136", "model_id": "vr.tr.knight-q136", "name": "knight", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a knight chess piece, record its physical and game state, and determine its permitted use under the applicable chess rules.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q136/", "tier": 2, "score": 87, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "white knight", "black knight", "queen knight", "king knight" ], "aliasCount": 4, "merged": 4, "knownIn": 87, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.knight", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q136", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q136", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T14:31:00Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 22.8, "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: 01a07c46-891e-78b1-aa89-831e73dc2577\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: knight\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: PHY.OBJ\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 546 things:\n# Batch 003: 1001 registere", "usd": 0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 68.3, "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: 01a07c46-8921-7fa3-ba82-0598f1ff64cb\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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it owns knight-specific identity, movement, interactions and physical usability.", "in_scope": [ "Identification of a physical piece assigned the knight role", "Side affiliation, current square and participation state", "Knight movement, capture and attack patterns in standard chess", "Constraints that distinguish a geometric knight move from a legal move", "Physical distinguishability and suitability for the intended board" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Knighthood as a social rank, honour or historical military role", "Whole-game administration, clocks, scoring and competition procedures", "Complete board positions and rules governing other chess-piece kinds", "Horse sculptures or decorative objects with no assigned chess role", "Digital rendering, chess-engine implementation and general search algorithms" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Its assigned chess role permits displacement by two files and one rank, or one file and two ranks, in standard chess.", "Intervening occupied squares do not obstruct its movement, unlike the paths of bishops, rooks and queens.", "Every standard knight move changes the colour of the occupied square.", "A horse-head form commonly signals a knight, but an explicit role assignment or set convention is needed when appearance is ambiguous.", "The covered entity is a chess token; a human title or mounted warrior belongs to a different sense of knight." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Represented piece role", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "knight; uncertain pending identification", "why_it_matters": "Assigned role determines movement; silhouette alone may not establish it." }, { "name": "Applicable ruleset", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Reference to standard chess or a named variant and its rules", "why_it_matters": "Variant rules may change movement, capture or role assignment." }, { "name": "Side affiliation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "White; Black; unassigned; variant-specific side", "why_it_matters": "Determines friendly occupancy, opposing pieces and control." }, { "name": "Current square", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Board-square reference; a1-h8 on a standard board; none when off board", "why_it_matters": "Locates the origin from which destinations and attacks are evaluated." }, { "name": "Participation state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "in play; captured; spare; awaiting placement; unknown", "why_it_matters": "A captured or spare token contributes no attacks to the current position." }, { "name": "Standard movement offsets", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "(file offset, rank offset): (±1, ±2) or (±2, ±1)", "why_it_matters": "Defines the knight's geometric destinations before board and legality constraints." }, { "name": "Role acquisition", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "initial setup; pawn promotion; explicit setup assignment; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes game-role history from the identity of the physical token." }, { "name": "Role and side legibility", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "unambiguous; ambiguous role; ambiguous side; both ambiguous", "why_it_matters": "An agent must reliably distinguish this knight from other pieces before moving it." }, { "name": "Physical envelope", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Height and maximum horizontal dimensions in mm", "why_it_matters": "Supports square fit, storage fit and collision-aware handling of projecting horse-head forms." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify the token as a knight and establish its side using the set convention or an explicit assignment.", "Enumerate knight destinations and attacked squares from a supplied board position.", "Filter candidate moves against occupancy, turn and king-safety constraints.", "Move the token to a legal destination and remove an opposing captured piece when authorised.", "Assign an available knight token to represent a pawn promoted to a knight.", "Flag ambiguous markings, damage or poor board fit before physical play or automated handling." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "knight-identity-and-sense", "name": "Knight identity and sense", "description": "Establishes that the registered thing is the chess-piece sense and identifies the token's represented role.", "rationale": "The batch contains multiple senses of knight, and a horse-shaped object does not by itself establish a chess role.", "layers": [ { "id": "registry-sense", "name": "Registry sense", "description": "Resolves the intended meaning while preserving registry granularity.", "findings": [ { "id": "chess-sense-boundary", "name": "Chess sense boundary", "description": "The draft interprets this entry as the physical knight chess piece, subject to confirmation from the registry's source record.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the source record for vr.tr.knight-q136 explicitly identify the chess-piece sense?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "chess-sense-boundary-q01" }, { "text": "Which separate registry entry owns knight as a human rank or role?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "chess-sense-boundary-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "token-role-recognition", "name": "Token role recognition", "description": "Connects a physical token to its knight role and side.", "findings": [ { "id": "assigned-role-over-appearance", "name": "Assigned role and appearance", "description": "Horse-head styling is a common recognition cue; themed, tactile or substitute pieces require the relevant set convention or explicit assignment.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which shape, marking, tactile feature or declared convention identifies this token as a knight?", "kind": "definition", "id": "assigned-role-over-appearance-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence establishes its side when the set does not use literal white and black colours?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "assigned-role-over-appearance-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "knight-movement-and-attacks", "name": "Knight movement and attacks", "description": "Captures the knight's distinctive displacement and its interaction with occupied squares.", "rationale": "Recognition alone is insufficient: an agent must distinguish jumping movement, attacks and permitted captures.", "layers": [ { "id": "jump-geometry", "name": "Jump geometry", "description": "Defines destination offsets independently of intervening pieces.", "findings": [ { "id": "two-and-one-displacement", "name": "Two-and-one displacement", "description": "In standard chess, a knight changes one coordinate by two squares and the other by one; intermediate occupancy does not block the move.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which destinations at offsets (±1, ±2) and (±2, ±1) lie within the current board?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "two-and-one-displacement-q01" }, { "text": "Does the applicable variant preserve the standard knight jump?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "two-and-one-displacement-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "destination-interactions", "name": "Destination interactions", "description": "Distinguishes geometric attacks from movement onto occupied squares.", "findings": [ { "id": "occupancy-and-capture", "name": "Occupancy and capture", "description": "A knight may move to an empty destination or capture an opposing non-king piece there; friendly occupancy prevents a move onto that square.", "questions": [ { "text": "For each geometric destination, is the square empty, friendly-occupied or opponent-occupied?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "occupancy-and-capture-q01" }, { "text": "Does the requested operation concern an attacked square, a defended friendly piece, a capture or a quiet move?", "kind": "action", "id": "occupancy-and-capture-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "knight-game-state-and-legality", "name": "Knight game state and legality", "description": "Connects the knight to the supplied game position and its history of role assignment.", "rationale": "A geometrically valid jump may be illegal, and promotion can introduce knights beyond the initial pair.", "layers": [ { "id": "position-dependent-legality", "name": "Position-dependent legality", "description": "Uses external board state to evaluate turn and king safety.", "findings": [ { "id": "legal-move-versus-attack", "name": "Legal move versus attack", "description": "A standard-chess knight move must respect the turn and leave its own king safe; attack evaluation remains distinct from whether the knight can legally move.", "questions": [ { "text": "Would the candidate knight move leave or place its own king in check?", "kind": "action", "id": "legal-move-versus-attack-q01" }, { "text": "When evaluating an attacked square, has the agent avoided treating a king-safety restriction on movement as removal of the knight's attack?", "kind": "definition", "id": "legal-move-versus-attack-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "role-history-and-participation", "name": "Role history and participation", "description": "Tracks whether the knight is active and how the represented role entered the position.", "findings": [ { "id": "initial-promoted-and-spare-knights", "name": "Initial, promoted and spare knights", "description": "A knight role can originate in initial setup or pawn promotion; physical tokens may also remain captured or unused off board.", "questions": [ { "text": "Was this active knight introduced by initial setup, promotion or an explicitly constructed position?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "initial-promoted-and-spare-knights-q01" }, { "text": "If a spare or substitute token represents a promoted knight, how is that assignment made unambiguous?", "kind": "action", "id": "initial-promoted-and-spare-knights-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "physical-knight-use", "name": "Physical knight use", "description": "Addresses recognisability and handling of a physical knight on its intended chessboard.", "rationale": "The PHY entry must support actual token recognition and manipulation without confusing physical travel with abstract jumping rules.", "layers": [ { "id": "knight-form-and-board-fit", "name": "Knight form and board fit", "description": "Assesses whether the distinctive piece form remains identifiable and fits the play surface.", "findings": [ { "id": "recognisable-stable-placement", "name": "Recognisable, stable placement", "description": "The token must remain distinguishable as a knight and occupy its intended square without ambiguous placement; projecting forms can affect clearance.", "questions": [ { "text": "Do the base and projecting head fit the intended square without interfering with neighbouring pieces?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "recognisable-stable-placement-q01" }, { "text": "Has wear or damage obscured the features that distinguish this knight from other roles or sides?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "recognisable-stable-placement-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "physical-jump-execution", "name": "Physical jump execution", "description": "Translates an authorised knight move into a physical transfer.", "findings": [ { "id": "transfer-clearance-and-orientation", "name": "Transfer clearance and orientation", "description": "The rule allowing a knight to jump does not provide physical clearance; handling must avoid other tokens, and facing direction does not change standard knight movement.", "questions": [ { "text": "What lift height and transfer route clear intervening pieces for the selected knight and handling device?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "transfer-clearance-and-orientation-q01" }, { "text": "Can the agent place the knight securely on its destination, removing any authorised captured token without disturbing neighbouring pieces?", "kind": "action", "id": "transfer-clearance-and-orientation-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-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The chess-piece sense is inferred from PHY.OBJ and the duplicate-name warning; the registry's underlying entry should confirm it.", "This is recalled knowledge, not source-checked research.", "Exact tournament equipment dimensions and applicable FIDE document editions should be checked before specifying a physical set." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of knight this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "White knight", "Black knight" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of knight this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "English algebraic chess notation", "value_or_pattern": "N", "note": "Identifies the piece type in move notation, not an individual physical piece." }, { "scheme": "Unicode", "value_or_pattern": "U+2658; U+265E", "note": "WHITE CHESS KNIGHT and BLACK CHESS KNIGHT, respectively." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of knight this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "FIDE Laws of Chess, issued by the International Chess Federation, define the knight's movement and the rules governing legal moves.", "FIDE chess equipment standards specify requirements for tournament pieces, including recognisability and proportions." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of knight this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; 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"knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a knight 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 knight, 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 knight, 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 knight 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 knight 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 knight, 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 knight, 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 knight 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 knight from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a knight, 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 knight, 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 knight 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 knight 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 knight, 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 knight, 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 knight 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 knight is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a knight, 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 knight, 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 knight 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.", 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movement", "description": "Where a knight 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 knight is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a knight, 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 knight, 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 knight 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 knight 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 knight, 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 knight, 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 knight 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 knight 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 knight between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a knight, 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 knight, 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 knight 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 knight, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a knight 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 knight, 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 knight, 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 knight 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 knight 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 knight 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 knight, 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 knight 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 knight 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 knight 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 knight 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 knight 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 knight, 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 knight 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 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"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 knight is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a knight, 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 knight, 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 knight 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 } } } }