{ "model": { "rank": 3048, "code": "thing-q137", "model_id": "vr.tr.rook", "name": "rook", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a physical chess rook, assess its condition and game role, and determine permitted handling or moves within an identified ruleset.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q137/", "tier": 2, "score": 92, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "crazy rook", "white rook", "black rook" ], "aliasCount": 3, "merged": 3, "knownIn": 92, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.rook", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q137", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q137", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T14:23:44Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.00575382, "turns": 1, "seconds": 20.3, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 67.7, "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: 01a07c3f-e72d-72c2-ac4b-b1741b0fa9e4\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: rook\nRegistry id: vr.tr.rook\nPlane / domain: PHY / PHY.OBJ\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\nA Vercy model s" } } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q137", "registryId": "vr.tr.rook", "name": "rook", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "PHY.OBJ" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q137/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.rook", "name": "rook", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a physical chess rook, assess its condition and game role, and determine permitted handling or moves within an identified ruleset.", "definition": "A medium-sized corvid (Corvus frugilegus) of the Palearctic, distinguished from other crows by a pale, largely featherless bill base in adults and by colonial nesting in treetop rookeries.", "scope_statement": "This draft provisionally interprets rook as a physical chess piece and owns its identification, physical usability, assigned side, and game-dependent rook role; the registry must confirm this interpretation because rook can also name a bird.", "in_scope": [ "Recognition of a physical piece as a rook within its chess set", "Physical condition and suitability for placement and handling", "Assigned side and distinction between physical appearance and game role", "Current placement, capture status, and promotion-derived role", "Rook movement, attack relationships, and participation in castling under the selected ruleset" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The rook bird and its biological or ecological characteristics", "Complete board geometry and whole-game state", "King identity, condition, and general movement rules", "Player identity, tournament administration, and time controls", "Whole-set inventory, manufacture, valuation, and collecting history" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Within the identified set, the piece is designated as a rook by its recognised design, markings, or explicit role assignment; a tower silhouette alone is insufficient.", "Under standard chess rules, its ordinary movement follows a rank or file through unobstructed squares, distinguishing its role from a bishop or queen.", "Under standard chess rules, its ordinary move does not jump intervening pieces, distinguishing it from a knight.", "Its possible participation alongside a king in castling distinguishes the rook role from other non-king roles, although any particular rook may be ineligible.", "A rook-shaped ornament without an assigned chess role is distinguished from a game piece, while a substitute token may have a rook role without resembling a tower." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Interpretation and identification confidence", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "confirmed chess rook | provisional chess rook | ambiguous | rejected", "why_it_matters": "Prevents an unsupported interpretation of the registry name from becoming an asserted identity." }, { "name": "Set-relative identifying features", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "observed silhouette, top design, markings, and set designation", "why_it_matters": "Supports recognition in conventional, stylised, damaged, and accessible sets." }, { "name": "Assigned side", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "reference to a side in the current game | unassigned | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Determines friendly and opposing pieces without assuming material colour determines allegiance." }, { "name": "Effective game role", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "rook | another declared role | unassigned | disputed", "why_it_matters": "Separates the physical token's appearance from the role it currently represents." }, { "name": "Placement and participation", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "on a referenced square | captured | spare | awaiting placement | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes a participating rook from an identical token beside the board." }, { "name": "Role origin", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "initial rook | promotion-derived rook | setup-assigned rook | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Helps interpret identity continuity and castling eligibility." }, { "name": "Base footprint", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "millimetres, with shape or maximum width recorded", "why_it_matters": "Helps assess square fit and clearance from adjacent pieces." }, { "name": "Handling condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "stable and recognisable | unstable | damaged but usable | unsafe to handle | uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether the piece can be placed, grasped, and distinguished reliably." }, { "name": "Castling-related movement history", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "verified unmoved | previously moved | ineligible by origin or assignment | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Returning a rook to its starting square does not establish that castling rights remain." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify or flag a candidate rook using evidence from its set and declared role.", "Place, grasp, move, or replace the physical token according to its condition and the authorised task.", "Evaluate candidate rook moves and captures against the selected ruleset and referenced board state.", "Determine rook attack lines and their obstructions.", "Assess the rook's eligibility to participate in a proposed castling move.", "Record capture, promotion assignment, or token substitution while preserving game-role continuity." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "rook-identification", "name": "Rook identification", "description": "Establish whether the observed object is a chess rook and how that identification is supported.", "rationale": "The registry supplies no definition, and neither the word rook nor a tower-shaped object establishes the intended chess identity.", "layers": [ { "id": "referent-resolution", "name": "Referent resolution", "description": "Resolve the intended meaning of rook before applying chess-specific reasoning.", "findings": [ { "id": "chess-referent-evidence", "name": "Chess referent evidence", "description": "Record evidence supporting the provisional chess-piece interpretation and retain unresolved alternatives.", "questions": [ { "text": "What registry context or associated artefact establishes that rook denotes a chess piece here?", "kind": "definition", "id": "chess-referent-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence excludes the bird sense or a decorative object without a chess role?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "chess-referent-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "set-relative-recognition", "name": "Set-relative recognition", "description": "Identify the rook through the conventions of the particular set.", "findings": [ { "id": "rook-design-and-designation", "name": "Rook design and designation", "description": "Record visible or tactile identifiers together with any explicit designation that establishes the token's role.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which silhouette, top features, markings, or tactile cues distinguish this set's rook from its other pieces?", "kind": "definition", "id": "rook-design-and-designation-q01" }, { "text": "Who or what identifies this token as a rook when its design is unconventional or incomplete?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "rook-design-and-designation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "physical-playability", "name": "Physical playability", "description": "Assess whether this rook can be recognised, positioned, and manipulated on the intended board.", "rationale": "A valid rook role can be represented by a physical token whose footprint, damage, or instability prevents reliable play or robotic handling.", "layers": [ { "id": "square-fit-and-stability", "name": "Square fit and stability", "description": "Relate the rook's base and standing behaviour to the board on which it is used.", "findings": [ { "id": "rook-placement-clearance", "name": "Rook placement clearance", "description": "Record the footprint and observed stability needed to occupy one square unambiguously.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is the rook's base footprint relative to the usable area of its intended square?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "rook-placement-clearance-q01" }, { "text": "Does the rook stand securely without obscuring square boundaries or interfering with neighbouring pieces?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "rook-placement-clearance-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "recognition-preserving-handling", "name": "Recognition-preserving handling", "description": "Assess damage and grasping constraints that affect continued use as a distinguishable rook.", "findings": [ { "id": "rook-damage-and-grasp", "name": "Rook damage and grasp", "description": "Record whether damaged identifying features, loose parts, or available grasp surfaces affect use.", "questions": [ { "text": "Has damage altered the features that distinguish this rook from the other pieces in its set?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "rook-damage-and-grasp-q01" }, { "text": "Where can the agent securely grasp this rook, or is an agreed replacement needed before further handling?", "kind": "action", "id": "rook-damage-and-grasp-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "rook-role-and-continuity", "name": "Rook role and continuity", "description": "Track which side and rook role the physical token represents throughout play.", "rationale": "Promotions, captures, spare pieces, and substitutions make physical appearance insufficient to establish a rook's current participation or history.", "layers": [ { "id": "side-and-participation", "name": "Side and participation", "description": "Connect the token to its effective role, side, and current place in the game.", "findings": [ { "id": "active-rook-assignment", "name": "Active rook assignment", "description": "Record whether this token currently represents an active rook and where that role is situated.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which side and declared game role does this physical token currently represent?", "kind": "definition", "id": "active-rook-assignment-q01" }, { "text": "Is it on a specific square, captured, spare, or awaiting placement, and what observation establishes that status?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "active-rook-assignment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "origin-and-token-substitution", "name": "Origin and token substitution", "description": "Preserve the distinction between game-role history and changes of physical representative.", "findings": [ { "id": "rook-role-lineage", "name": "Rook role lineage", "description": "Record whether the role began in the initial position, arose through promotion, or was assigned in a custom setup.", "questions": [ { "text": "Did this rook role originate in the initial position, through a recorded promotion, or through an explicit setup assignment?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "rook-role-lineage-q01" }, { "text": "If the physical token is replaced, which role identity, side, square, and movement history must carry 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piece?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "rook-lines-and-legal-moves-q01" }, { "text": "Does destination occupancy permit the move or capture, and would the resulting position leave the moving side's king in check?", "kind": "action", "id": "rook-lines-and-legal-moves-q02" }, { "text": "Which squares does this rook attack, distinguished from the moves it may legally make in the current position?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "rook-lines-and-legal-moves-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "castling-participation", "name": "Castling participation", "description": "Determine whether this particular rook can participate in the proposed castling action.", "findings": [ { "id": "rook-castling-eligibility", "name": "Rook castling eligibility", "description": "Connect the rook's identity and history to recorded castling rights and the rules governing the paired king movement.", "questions": [ { "text": "What verified history or authoritative game record establishes castling rights involving this rook?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "rook-castling-eligibility-q01" }, { "text": "For the selected ruleset and current position, are the required king conditions, clearances, and final king and rook squares satisfied?", "kind": "action", "id": "rook-castling-eligibility-q02" }, { "text": "If movement history is unknown, what further evidence is required before permitting castling?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "rook-castling-eligibility-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "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": [ "adult rook", "juvenile rook", "western Palearctic rook (C. f. frugilegus)", "eastern Palearctic rook (C. f. pastinator)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of rook this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does vr.tr.rook denote the chess piece, the bird, or another referent, and what registry evidence settles that ambiguity?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already own the chess-rook concept, requiring this registry entry to link to it?", "Which rulesets must be supported, especially standard chess, Chess960, or other variants with different castling conventions?", "What evidence is authoritative for role assignments, promotions, substitutions, and castling rights when observation is incomplete?", "Which set designs, tactile conventions, board dimensions, and manipulation systems must recognition and physical usability assessments support?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 9, "questions": 19 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "device, machine or tool", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a rook, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a physical chess rook, assess its condition and game role, and determine permitted handling or moves within an identified ruleset.", "characteristics": { "substance": "material", "origin": "manufactured", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "varies" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: crazy rook, white rook, black rook.", "3 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 92 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 rook, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "matter you can touch", "physicalCharacter": [ "Mobility varies between examples.", "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Recognised by form, by the arrangement of its controls, and by markings - a plate, a model number, a certification mark. Form alone rarely separates two models that do very different things." ], "relatedModels": [ { "relation": "covers", "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.", "targets": [ "crazy rook", "white rook", "black rook" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 92 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 3 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one rook from another, and a rook 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 rook, 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 rook, 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 rook 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 rook, 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 rook, 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 rook 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 rook 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 rook, 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 rook, 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 rook 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 rook from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a rook, 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 rook, 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 rook 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 rook 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 rook, 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 rook, 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 rook 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 rook is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a rook, 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 rook, 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 rook 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 rook is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a rook, 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 rook, 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 rook 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 rook 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 rook is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a rook, 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 rook, 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 rook 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 rook 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 rook, 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 rook, 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 rook 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 rook 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 rook between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a rook, 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 rook, 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 rook 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 rook, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a rook 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 rook, 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 rook, 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 rook 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 rook 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 rook 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 rook, 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 rook 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 rook 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 rook 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 rook 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 rook 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 rook, 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 rook 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 rook and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a rook, 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 rook, 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 rook 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 rook is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a rook, 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 rook, 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 rook 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 } } } }