{ "model": { "rank": 3820, "code": "thing-q1576", "model_id": "vr.tr.cigar", "name": "cigar", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a cigar, record its construction and condition, and determine appropriate handling, storage and disposition.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q1576/", "tier": 2, "score": 81, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "cigar tube", "Fundadores", "Cuban cigar", "White Owl", "Toscano", "Montecristo", "cigar cutter", "cheroot", "cigar industry", "blunt", "box-pressed", "Joya de Nicaragua", "cigarillo", "Bolívar" ], "aliasCount": 14, "merged": 14, "knownIn": 81, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q1576", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1576", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T18:50:51Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 22.2, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\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: 01a08781-3bbe-7761-bf9c-603878c232e9\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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assess individual cigars, while separating product identity from brand, packaging and jurisdictional classification.", "in_scope": [ "Identification of the tobacco-product sense of cigar and its boundaries with neighbouring smoking products", "Filler, binder where present, wrapper and their assembly", "Shape, dimensions, head and foot configuration", "Storage history, physical condition and signs of deterioration", "Product provenance, preparation state and consumption state" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Tobacco cultivation and leaf processing as independent production systems", "Brands, manufacturers and retailers as organisations", "Humidors, cutters and lighters as equipment", "Boxes, bands and labels as independently modelled packaging objects", "Smoking behaviour, dependence and individual health assessment", "Tax, sales and import regimes as independently maintained legal models" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Assess whether it is a tobacco-filled roll with a tobacco-leaf or tobacco-containing wrapper; record wrapper composition rather than identifying it by brown colour alone.", "Distinguish it from a cigarette using documented construction and the applicable classification basis, rather than size or marketing name alone.", "Distinguish the assembled roll from loose pipe tobacco or a tobacco leaf intended for later rolling.", "Distinguish a combustible cigar from an electronic device or imitation object with a cigar-like exterior.", "Treat cigarillo and little-cigar labels as classification questions within the cigar boundary until registry scope and relevant definitions establish otherwise." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Product identity", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Declared maker, brand, product line and size designation; unknown permitted", "why_it_matters": "Separates the registered kind from a marketed product and an individual specimen." }, { "name": "Component composition", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Filler, binder if present, wrapper, filter or tip if present; material and evidence for each", "why_it_matters": "Supports identification and prevents assumptions based solely on appearance." }, { "name": "Filler format", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Long filler, short filler, mixed, other documented construction or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Records a construction distinction relevant to physical integrity and product comparison." }, { "name": "Length", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "mm, with intact or prepared state recorded", "why_it_matters": "Supports size identification and distinguishes original dimensions from changes during use." }, { "name": "Diameter profile", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "mm at named positions; declared ring gauge retained with its convention", "why_it_matters": "Describes straight and tapered cigars without treating a trade size name as an exact measurement." }, { "name": "Body and end configuration", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Straight or tapered body; head closure, foot opening and tip configuration", "why_it_matters": "Supports recognition and determines whether preparation would alter a closure." }, { "name": "Wrapper integrity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Intact, cracked, split, lifting, perforated or uncertain; affected location", "why_it_matters": "Records damage that can affect handling and assessment." }, { "name": "Storage exposure", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Temperature in °C and relative humidity in %, each with time, duration and evidence source", "why_it_matters": "Provides context for condition without equating ambient humidity with internal moisture." }, { "name": "Deterioration indicators", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "None observed, surface deposit, unusual odour, holes, debris, deformation or unresolved concern", "why_it_matters": "Supports separation and inspection while preserving uncertainty about cause." }, { "name": "Preparation and consumption state", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Unprepared, opened or cut, lit, extinguished, partly consumed or spent", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes irreversible alterations and determines appropriate handling." }, { "name": "Traceability", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to packaging, batch identifiers, supplier records and dated custody observations", "why_it_matters": "Connects provenance claims to evidence without treating a band or box as proof of authenticity." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify and compare cigars using construction, dimensions and documented product identity.", "Inspect and record wrapper damage, deformation, deposits and possible pest indicators.", "Associate a cigar with its packaging, batch and custody evidence.", "Select or reassess storage conditions against documented product requirements and observed condition.", "Determine whether opening, cutting or other preparation is applicable to its end construction.", "Separate a suspect cigar for assessment and record extinguishment or disposal when appropriate." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "cigar-identity", "name": "Cigar identity", "description": "Establishes what makes the subject a cigar and which level of identity is being recorded.", "rationale": "Appearance, trade terminology and legal classification may establish different boundaries.", "layers": [ { "id": "product-boundary", "name": "Product boundary", "description": "Examines construction and intended mode of use to distinguish neighbouring products.", "findings": [ { "id": "construction-based-identification", "name": "Construction-based identification", "description": "Record the evidence used to identify a tobacco-filled roll as a cigar, including unresolved neighbouring categories.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence establishes the filler and wrapper materials and the intended combustible use?", "kind": "definition", "id": "construction-based-identification-q01" }, { "text": "Does this specimen raise a boundary question with cigarettes, cigarillos, little cigars or non-tobacco imitations?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "construction-based-identification-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "kind-product-specimen", "name": "Kind, product and specimen", "description": "Separates the registry concept from commercial designations and individual units.", "findings": [ { "id": "identity-resolution", "name": "Identity resolution", "description": "Keep maker, product line, size designation and specimen identity distinct.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which names identify the maker, product line and marketed size, and which identify this individual cigar or batch?", "kind": "definition", "id": "identity-resolution-q01" }, { "text": "Which identity claims come from packaging or seller statements, and which have independent support?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "identity-resolution-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "leaf-and-roll-construction", "name": "Leaf and roll construction", "description": "Describes the materials and assembly that form the cigar.", "rationale": "Component roles and filler arrangement distinguish cigar constructions and guide inspection.", "layers": [ { "id": "component-materials", "name": "Component materials", "description": "Identifies filler, wrapper and any binder or additional components.", "findings": [ { "id": "component-evidence", "name": "Component evidence", "description": "Record each component's role and documented material without inferring leaf identity from colour.", "questions": [ { "text": "What materials are documented for the filler, wrapper and binder if present?", "kind": "definition", "id": "component-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What supports claims about leaf origin, processing, flavouring or other additions?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "component-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "assembly-and-fill", "name": "Assembly and fill", "description": "Records filler format and observable assembly characteristics.", "findings": [ { "id": "roll-structure", "name": "Roll structure", "description": "Distinguish declared construction from observations of seams, closure and fill consistency.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is long, short or mixed filler documented, and what supports any handmade or machine-made claim?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "roll-structure-q01" }, { "text": "Are there visible seam failures, loose material or local irregularities that can be recorded without damaging the cigar?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "roll-structure-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "cigar-form-and-preparation", "name": "Cigar form and preparation", "description": "Connects physical dimensions and end construction to identification and preparation.", "rationale": "Cigar size names alone do not describe the geometry or establish which preparation is applicable.", "layers": [ { "id": "size-and-profile", "name": "Size and profile", "description": "Captures measured geometry alongside declared trade designations.", "findings": [ { "id": "measured-form", "name": "Measured form", "description": "Record length, diameter profile and body shape with measurement locations and specimen state.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the length and diameters at specified positions, measured in millimetres?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "measured-form-q01" }, { "text": "How does the marketed size or vitola designation correspond to the measured shape, and which naming convention is being used?", "kind": "definition", "id": "measured-form-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "head-foot-and-opening", "name": "Head, foot and opening", "description": "Identifies the ends and any closure, tip or previous preparation.", "findings": [ { "id": "preparation-applicability", "name": "Preparation applicability", "description": "Determine preparation from the actual end construction and current condition.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which end is the head, which is the foot, and what closures, openings or tips are present?", "kind": "definition", "id": "preparation-applicability-q01" }, { "text": "Has an end already been opened or damaged, and what preparation, if any, is supported by this construction?", "kind": "action", "id": "preparation-applicability-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "storage-and-deterioration", "name": "Storage and deterioration", "description": "Relates storage evidence to the cigar's observed physical condition.", "rationale": "A cigar requires condition assessment that distinguishes environmental records, direct observations and uncertain diagnoses.", "layers": [ { "id": "storage-history", "name": "Storage history", "description": "Records environmental exposure, containment and gaps in custody.", "findings": [ { "id": "exposure-evidence", "name": "Exposure evidence", "description": "Keep measured storage conditions separate from assumptions about moisture or ageing.", "questions": [ { "text": "What temperature and relative-humidity history is available, for which periods and from which instruments?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "exposure-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What product-specific guidance supports a storage adjustment, and what exposure history remains unknown?", "kind": "action", "id": "exposure-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-inspection", "name": "Condition inspection", "description": "Examines wrapper integrity and possible deterioration without declaring uncertain deposits harmless.", "findings": [ { "id": "damage-and-suspect-signs", "name": "Damage and suspect signs", "description": "Record the location and appearance of cracks, deposits, holes, debris and unusual odours before assigning a cause.", "questions": [ { "text": "What damage or suspect signs are observable, where are they located, and how were they documented?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "damage-and-suspect-signs-q01" }, { "text": "Do the observations justify separation from other cigars, further assessment or disposal, and on what evidence?", "kind": "action", "id": "damage-and-suspect-signs-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "traceability-and-use-state", "name": "Traceability and use state", "description": "Maintains evidence of origin and tracks irreversible changes to the cigar.", "rationale": "Packaging association does not establish authenticity, and preparation or consumption changes what the cigar can be used for.", "layers": [ { "id": "origin-and-authenticity", "name": "Origin and authenticity", "description": "Connects manufacturer and origin claims to records associated with the specimen.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-traceability", "name": "Claim traceability", "description": "Distinguish leaf origin, manufacturing location, purchase source and claimed age.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which records support manufacturing location, leaf-origin claims, production date and custody history?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "claim-traceability-q01" }, { "text": "How securely are the band, box and batch identifiers associated with this cigar, and what authenticity questions remain?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "claim-traceability-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "consumption-and-disposition", "name": "Consumption and disposition", "description": "Tracks preparation, combustion and remaining material.", "findings": [ { "id": "irreversible-state-changes", "name": "Irreversible state changes", "description": "Record cutting, lighting, extinguishment and partial consumption as changes to the specimen.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the cigar unprepared, opened, actively burning, extinguished, partly consumed or spent, and what observation supports that state?", "kind": "definition", "id": "irreversible-state-changes-q01" }, { "text": "What handling or disposition is appropriate to the observed combustion state, remaining material and condition?", "kind": "action", "id": "irreversible-state-changes-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says 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Current jurisdiction-specific regulation and applicable testing standards need separate verification." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of cigar 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": [ "Premium hand-rolled cigars", "Machine-made cigars", "Cigarillos", "Little cigars", "Flavoured cigars" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of cigar 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": "Vitola", "value_or_pattern": "Named size and shape, often accompanied by length and ring gauge", "note": "Names such as robusto, corona and Churchill are conventional formats; 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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": [ "cigar tube", "Fundadores", "Cuban cigar", "White Owl", "Toscano", "Montecristo", "cigar cutter", "cheroot", "cigar industry", "blunt", "box-pressed", "Joya de Nicaragua" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 81 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 14 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 cigar from another, and a cigar 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 cigar, 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 cigar, 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 cigar 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 cigar, 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 cigar, 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 cigar 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 cigar 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 cigar, 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 cigar, 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 cigar 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 cigar from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a cigar, 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 cigar, 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 cigar 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 cigar 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 cigar, 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 cigar, 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 cigar 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 cigar is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a cigar, 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 cigar, 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 cigar 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 cigar is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a cigar, 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 cigar, 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 cigar 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 cigar 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 cigar is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a cigar, 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 cigar, 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 cigar 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 cigar 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 cigar, 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 cigar, 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 cigar 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 cigar 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 cigar between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a cigar, 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 cigar, 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 cigar 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 cigar, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a cigar 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 cigar, 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 cigar, 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 cigar 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 cigar 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 cigar 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 cigar, 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 cigar 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 cigar 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 cigar 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 cigar 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 cigar 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 cigar, 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 cigar 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 cigar and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a cigar, 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 cigar, 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 cigar 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 cigar is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a cigar, 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 cigar, 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 cigar 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 } } } }