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species) tegminous forewings; the vernacular covers both free-living taxa and the few synanthropic species that dominate pest, allergen, and feeder-insect practice.", "scope_statement": "This model owns an individual cockroach or provisionally identified cockroach specimen, including identification evidence, developmental stage, physical condition, immediate habitat relationships and action constraints; the treatment of termites within the registry remains unresolved.", "in_scope": [ "Evidence supporting cockroach identification and any species assignment", "Egg-case association, nymph or adult stage, and reproductive evidence", "Body integrity, activity, moulting evidence and viability", "Immediate shelter, food, water and human-contact relationships", "Individual observation, husbandry, containment and management decisions" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Building-wide infestation extent and population dynamics", "The building, drainage system or habitat as a managed asset", "Disease diagnoses and attribution of illness to an encounter", "Pesticide products, application programmes and regulatory approvals", "Taxonomic classification systems and species-wide ecological accounts" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Inspect the combination of a flattened body, long antennae and a shield-like pronotum partly covering the head; record which features are visible rather than identifying from silhouette alone.", "Check for enlarged jumping hind legs and a prominently exposed head when distinguishing a suspected cockroach from a cricket.", "Inspect wing-cover texture and arrangement when distinguishing an adult from a beetle; an apparently hard-backed outline alone is insufficient.", "Use antennae, paired terminal appendages and overall body form to evaluate wingless candidates; absent wings alone do not distinguish a cockroach nymph from another insect.", "For a possible termite, record identification evidence separately from registry placement rather than silently resolving the 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uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Changes the interpretation of size, wing development and reproductive capacity." }, { "name": "Wing development", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "absent | pads visible | shortened wings | developed wings | obscured", "why_it_matters": "Supports stage and species assessment without treating wing presence as proof of flight capability." }, { "name": "Observed activity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "walking | climbing | flying | feeding | hiding | immobile | other; time and conditions recorded", "why_it_matters": "Supports immediate handling decisions and prevents one observation from becoming a permanent behavioural claim." }, { "name": "Physical condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "apparently intact | injured | possible recent moult | dead | uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Separates observable condition from unsupported diagnoses." }, { "name": "Reproductive evidence", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "egg case visibly attached | egg case nearby | no egg case observed | uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes direct reproductive evidence from an unverified association." }, { "name": "Encounter setting", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "location, substrate, shelter, nearby food or water, and captive or free-living context", "why_it_matters": "Helps distinguish an incidental encounter from a husbandry or premises-management concern." }, { "name": "Observation temperature", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "°C at the observation location, if measured", "why_it_matters": "Provides context for activity and condition without assuming a universal suitable temperature." } ], "affordances": [ "Observe, photograph and measure diagnostic features with minimal disturbance.", "Assign or revise an identification and request expert review when evidence is insufficient.", "Monitor activity, moulting and egg-case observations over time.", "Select suitable temporary containment or captive care using verified 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"what_it_supports": "Cockroaches as mechanical contaminant of food and as indoor allergen sources in dwellings and food premises; publisher WHO Regional Office for Europe." }, { "id": "wikipedia-cockroach", "title": "Cockroach", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockroach", "what_it_supports": "Current ordinal placement, widely used English names of pest species, and the Wikidata sitelink used as a catalogue identifier; publisher Wikimedia Foundation.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "ncbi-blattodea", "title": "NCBI Taxonomy Browser: Blattodea", "url": "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?id=85823", "what_it_supports": "NCBI taxon identifier for the order that contains cockroaches and termites; publisher National Center for Biotechnology Information.", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "cockroach-identification", "name": "Cockroach identification", "description": "Evidence that the observed animal is a cockroach and support for a 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ongoing moulting.", "findings": [ { "id": "stage-evidence", "name": "Stage evidence", "description": "Assess stage from multiple features without equating winglessness with immaturity.", "questions": [ { "text": "What combination of size, wing development and species-specific features supports nymph or adult status?", "kind": "definition", "id": "stage-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Is pale appearance accompanied by a witnessed moult or associated shed skin, or is its cause unresolved?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "stage-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "egg-case-association", "name": "Egg-case association", "description": "Direct and indirect evidence connecting an egg case to the individual.", "findings": [ { "id": "reproductive-observation", "name": "Reproductive observation", "description": "Record attachment, deposition or proximity without inferring parentage or viability from proximity alone.", "questions": [ { "text": "Was an egg case observed attached to or deposited by this individual, or only found nearby?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "reproductive-observation-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports any claim about egg-case viability or hatching status?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "reproductive-observation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-capabilities", "name": "Condition and capabilities", "description": "Current physical condition and directly observed movement.", "rationale": "Immobility, injury and developmental changes require different interpretations and responses.", "layers": [ { "id": "integrity-and-viability", "name": "Integrity and viability", "description": "Visible damage and evidence for whether the animal is alive.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition assessment", "description": "Distinguish observation from diagnoses such as poisoning, dehydration or disease.", "questions": [ { "text": "What movement, posture, visible injury or missing appendages were observed, and under what conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "condition-assessment-q01" }, { "text": "What further non-injurious observation is needed before classifying an immobile individual as dead?", "kind": "action", "id": "condition-assessment-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "movement-and-escape", "name": "Movement and escape", "description": "Observed locomotion relevant to observation and containment.", "findings": [ { "id": "demonstrated-mobility", "name": "Demonstrated mobility", "description": "Record climbing, running or flight with the substrate and conditions under which it occurred.", "questions": [ { "text": "Has this individual been observed climbing the relevant surface or flying, rather than merely possessing wings?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "demonstrated-mobility-q01" }, { "text": "What enclosure openings or surfaces need adjustment given the observed mobility and body size?", "kind": "action", "id": "demonstrated-mobility-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "habitat-and-encounter", "name": "Habitat and 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"questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of cockroach this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Mechanical contamination of food and surfaces with feces, regurgitant, and cuticle, carrying enteric bacteria such as Salmonella and E. coli without being a classical biological vector of a named human disease.", "Inhalant allergens (notably Bla g 1, Bla g 2, Per a 1) that sensitize occupants and exacerbate asthma, especially in poorly maintained urban housing.", "Insecticide resistance in German cockroach populations (target-site, metabolic, and behavioral), which causes bait and spray programmes to fail and selects for harder-to-control strains.", "Infestation of medical devices, electrical equipment, and food-processing plant, creating hygiene failures and occasional short-circuit or contamination incidents (brown-banded and American cockroaches in equipment voids).", "Psychological distress, housing stigma, and failed pest-control contracts when sanitation and harbourage are not addressed with the chemical treatment." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of cockroach this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "In the southeastern United States, 'palmetto bug' is ordinary speech for large Periplaneta (often American or smokybrown), not a separate taxon.", "In British usage, Oriental cockroach has long been called 'black 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Confirm with habitat plus hind-wing and pronotal markings, not colour alone." }, { "name": "Native wood cockroaches (e.g. Parcoblatta) versus German cockroach", "difference": "Wood cockroaches appear indoors as stray adults (often males at lights) and do not produce the dense kitchen infestations, fecal spotting, and mixed-instar aggregations of B. germanica." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of cockroach this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does this registry use cockroach in its ordinary sense excluding termites, and which neighbouring entry owns termites?", "Which identification references reliably distinguish local species and their nymphs from common look-alikes?", "Should a detached egg case be a separate registered thing linked to the individual, or an associated reproductive observation?", "Which species-specific evidence is required to distinguish incidental indoor visitors from cockroaches capable of establishing in the encountered premises?", "Which verified husbandry, ecological and jurisdictional guidance should govern containment, relocation and control in the intended deployment region?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 18, "questions": 28 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "organism", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. 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Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.", "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a cockroach, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a cockroach, assess its condition and encounter context, and choose proportionate observation, care, containment or management actions.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 63 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 cockroach, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a living thing", "physicalCharacter": [ "Moves under its own power or of its own accord.", "Acts on its own behalf.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Recognised by diagnostic characters, and those differ by life stage - the young of many kinds are mistaken for other kinds entirely. A sighting is settled by characters, a photograph and a place, not by a name alone." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 63 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one cockroach from another, and a cockroach 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 cockroach, 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 cockroach, 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 cockroach 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 cockroach, 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 cockroach, 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 cockroach 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 cockroach 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 cockroach, 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 cockroach, 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 cockroach 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 cockroach from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a cockroach, 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 cockroach, 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 cockroach 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 cockroach 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 cockroach, 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 cockroach, 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 cockroach is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Anatomy, parts and life stage.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and life stages", "description": "The parts of a cockroach and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a cockroach, 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 cockroach, 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 cockroach 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 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"place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a cockroach is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a cockroach is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a cockroach, 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 cockroach, 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 cockroach 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 cockroach moves on its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a cockroach, 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 cockroach, 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 cockroach 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 cockroach 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", 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injury and stress, and who is competent to judge them.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "How is the condition of cockroach judged, on what scale, and by whom?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "condition-assessment-q02", "text": "What condition obliges an agent to act, and what act is permitted to whom?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "range-and-status", "name": "Habitat, range and conservation status", "description": "Where cockroach lives and how threatened it is.", "rationale": "Range and status govern what is lawful, and both are assessments with an assessor and a year rather than facts of nature.", "layers": [ { "id": "habitat-and-range", "name": "Habitat and range", "description": "Native range, introductions and the habitat it needs.", "findings": [ { "id": "range-record", "name": "Range, introductions and habitat", "description": "What to record about where it is found and how it got there.", "questions": [ { "id": "range-record-q01", "text": "What is the native range of cockroach, where has it been introduced, and what habitat does it require?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "range-record-q02", "text": "What distinguishes a native record from an introduced or vagrant one?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "protection-status", "name": "Protection and legal status", "description": "Conservation assessments and the rules that follow from them.", "findings": [ { "id": "status-and-rules", "name": "Conservation status and legal consequence", "description": "The assessment, its date, and what it forbids or requires where.", "questions": [ { "id": "status-and-rules-q01", "text": "What conservation status does cockroach hold, under which assessment and year?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "status-and-rules-q02", "text": "What does that status forbid or require of an agent, and in which jurisdiction?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a cockroach 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 cockroach and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a cockroach, 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 cockroach, 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 cockroach 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 cockroach is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a cockroach, 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 cockroach, 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 cockroach 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 } } } }