{ "model": { "rank": 3785, "code": "thing-q154425", "model_id": "vr.tr.toe", "name": "toe", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to identify an anatomical toe, describe its structure and functional state, and determine what observation or assessment is appropriate.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q154425/", "tier": 2, "score": 82, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "human toe", "fourth toe", "fifth toe", "second toe", "hallux", "third toe", "right fourth toe", "left fourth toe", "right little toe", "left little toe", "right second toe", "left second toe", "right big toe", "left big toe", "right third toe", "left third toe" ], "aliasCount": 16, "merged": 16, "knownIn": 82, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.toe-body", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q154425", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q154425", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T15:08:57Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 23, "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: 01a07c69-5c60-7393-954f-942646124ecc\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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recording species, position, attachment, structure, movement and local condition; human terminology applies only when the organism is identified as human.", "in_scope": [ "Toe identity, species, foot laterality and digit position", "Boundaries between the toe, its attachment and neighbouring digits", "Local skeletal, joint, soft-tissue and covering structures", "Toe movement, contact and contribution to foot function", "Observed integrity, symptoms and changes over time" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The whole foot, ankle or lower limb as an anatomical system", "Fingers and other digits not identified as foot digits", "Whole-organism gait, balance or neurological status", "Diseases and injuries as independent diagnostic entities", "Footwear, orthoses and prosthetic devices as manufactured objects", "Figurative uses such as the toe of a shoe, slope or tool" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The structure is an anatomical digit associated with a foot; an equivalent projection on footwear is a 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ground, adjacent digits, footwear or other surfaces during a named activity.", "Track local skin, nail or claw changes and reported symptoms.", "Identify missing information needed before handling, functional assessment or clinical review." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "toe-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Toe identity and boundaries", "description": "Establishes which anatomical digit is being described and where its ownership ends.", "rationale": "Toe names and boundaries must remain usable across species and anatomical variation.", "layers": [ { "id": "organism-and-digit-position", "name": "Organism and digit position", "description": "Locates the toe within an identified organism and foot.", "findings": [ { "id": "species-specific-digit-identity", "name": "Species-specific digit identity", "description": "Record the organism, foot and supported digit designation without inferring identity from size alone.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which organism, species and foot does this toe belong to?", "kind": "definition", "id": "species-specific-digit-identity-q01" }, { "text": "What anatomical convention or observation supports its digit designation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "species-specific-digit-identity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "toe-attachment-and-extent", "name": "Toe attachment and extent", "description": "Separates the toe from the supporting foot and adjacent digits.", "findings": [ { "id": "proximal-boundary-and-continuity", "name": "Proximal boundary and continuity", "description": "Make the proximal boundary explicit and record altered attachment, fusion or absence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which landmark defines the proximal limit of this toe for the present observation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "proximal-boundary-and-continuity-q01" }, { "text": "Is the toe separate, fused, partially absent or otherwise altered, and what evidence establishes that configuration?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "proximal-boundary-and-continuity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "toe-anatomy-and-form", "name": "Toe anatomy and form", "description": "Describes the toe's supporting structures, external outline and terminal covering.", "rationale": "A visible toe outline alone cannot establish its internal configuration or distinguish normal variation from change.", "layers": [ { "id": "phalanges-and-articulations", "name": "Phalanges and articulations", "description": "Records supported information about bones, joints and their arrangement.", "findings": [ { "id": "skeletal-and-joint-configuration", "name": "Skeletal and joint configuration", "description": "Distinguish anatomy established for this toe from anatomy expected under a species-level reference.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which phalanges and articulations are documented for this toe?", "kind": "definition", "id": "skeletal-and-joint-configuration-q01" }, { "text": "Does that description come from direct assessment, imaging or an anatomical reference?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "skeletal-and-joint-configuration-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "toe-outline-and-covering", "name": "Toe outline and covering", "description": "Records external dimensions and locally applicable skin, pad, nail or claw features.", "findings": [ { "id": "external-form-and-terminal-structures", "name": "External form and terminal structures", "description": "Describe measurable form and terminal structures without applying human surface anatomy to every organism.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the toe's length and width, and which landmarks and posture define those measurements?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "external-form-and-terminal-structures-q01" }, { "text": "Which surface and terminal structures are present, and where do they belong within the toe boundary?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "external-form-and-terminal-structures-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "toe-motion-and-contact", "name": "Toe motion and contact", "description": "Connects toe alignment and movement with observed contact during activity.", "rationale": "Toe function depends on joint behaviour and task-specific contact, which cannot be inferred from appearance alone.", "layers": [ { "id": "joint-position-and-excursion", "name": "Joint position and excursion", "description": "Separates resting alignment, active movement and assessed passive movement.", "findings": [ { "id": "toe-movement-profile", "name": "Toe movement profile", "description": "Record movement at named joints under stated conditions, including discomfort or constraints.", "questions": [ { "text": "What resting alignment and movement range are observed at each assessed toe joint?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "toe-movement-profile-q01" }, { "text": "Were the movements active or passive, and under what posture, loading and assessment conditions?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "toe-movement-profile-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "contact-during-activity", "name": "Contact during activity", "description": "Records how the toe interacts with support surfaces, adjacent digits and enclosing objects.", "findings": [ { "id": "task-specific-toe-contact", "name": "Task-specific toe contact", "description": "Describe demonstrated contact and contribution during a named activity rather than assigning a universal toe function.", "questions": [ { "text": "During which activity does this toe contact a surface, adjacent digit or enclosing object, and at what part of the toe?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "task-specific-toe-contact-q01" }, { "text": "What observation would clarify whether toe contact or restricted clearance is affecting that activity?", "kind": "action", "id": "task-specific-toe-contact-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "toe-condition-and-assessment", "name": "Toe condition and assessment", "description": "Records local integrity, symptoms, change and the limits of available observations.", "rationale": "An agent needs to distinguish visible changes, reported symptoms and established assessments before deciding what information or assistance is needed.", "layers": [ { "id": "local-integrity-and-symptoms", "name": "Local integrity and symptoms", "description": "Associates surface changes and symptoms with precise toe locations and evidence types.", "findings": [ { "id": "toe-local-condition-record", "name": "Toe-local condition record", "description": "Record observed damage, swelling or covering changes separately from reported pain, altered sensation and diagnostic interpretation.", "questions": [ { "text": "What changes or symptoms are present, and are they at the tip, joint, underside, side or nail or claw region?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "toe-local-condition-record-q01" }, { "text": "Which details were directly observed, reported by the individual or established through a qualified assessment?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "toe-local-condition-record-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "change-and-next-assessment", "name": "Change and next assessment", "description": "Places current observations against a baseline and identifies unresolved assessment needs.", "findings": [ { "id": "toe-change-and-evidence-limits", "name": "Toe change and evidence limits", "description": "Track change over time while keeping decisions about handling or further assessment tied to available evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "When did the toe's appearance, movement or symptoms change, and what baseline supports that comparison?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "toe-change-and-evidence-limits-q01" }, { "text": "What further information or qualified assessment is needed before handling or testing this toe?", "kind": "action", "id": "toe-change-and-evidence-limits-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, 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"evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Great toe (hallux; digit I)", "Second toe (digit II)", "Third toe (digit III)", "Fourth toe (digit IV)", "Little toe (digit V)" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of toe 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": "Anatomical digit numbering", "value_or_pattern": "I-V, with left or right laterality", "note": "Human toes are numbered from the great toe on the medial side to the little toe on the lateral side." }, { "scheme": "Terminologia Anatomica", "value_or_pattern": "Digiti pedis; hallux", "note": "Standard anatomical terms for the toes 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"name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Usual number of toes per human foot", "typical_range": "5", "unit": "digits" }, { "quantity": "Usual number of phalanges per human toe", "typical_range": "2 in the great toe; 3 in each other toe", "unit": "bones" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of toe this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Fractures, dislocations and sprains from impacts or excessive joint loading.", "Deformities such as hallux valgus, hammer toe, claw toe and mallet toe.", "Pressure and friction injuries, including blisters, corns and calluses.", "Ingrown 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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": [ "human toe", "fourth toe", "fifth toe", "second toe", "hallux", "third toe", "right fourth toe", "left fourth toe", "right little toe", "left little toe", "right second toe", "left second toe" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 82 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 16 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 toe from another, and a toe 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 toe, 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 toe, 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 toe 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 toe, 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 toe, 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 toe 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 toe 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 toe, 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 toe, 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 toe 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 toe from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a toe, 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 toe, 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 toe 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 toe 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 toe, 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 toe, 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 toe 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 toe is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a toe, 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 toe, 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 toe 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 toe is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a toe, 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 toe, 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 toe 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 toe 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 toe is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a toe, 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 toe, 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 toe 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 toe 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 toe, 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 toe, 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 toe 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 toe 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 toe between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a toe, 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 toe, 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 toe 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 toe, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a toe 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 toe, 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 toe, 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 toe 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 toe 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 toe 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 toe, 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 toe 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 toe 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 toe 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 toe 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 toe 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 toe, 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 toe 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 toe and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a toe, 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 toe, 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 toe 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 toe is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a toe, 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 toe, 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 toe is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, 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