{ "model": { "rank": 5478, "code": "thing-q181733", "model_id": "vr.tr.praetorian-guard", "name": "Praetorian Guard", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to identify the Roman Praetorian Guard, assess claims about its organisation and conduct in a specified period, and distinguish the institution from its members and other protective forces.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Society, people and institutions", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "SOC", "domain": "SOC.PER", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q181733/", "tier": 2, "score": 67, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 67, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q181733", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q181733", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T22:27:15Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 16.8, "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: 01a08847-4801-7d12-8b60-789da15b1251\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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intervened decisively in imperial succession.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the Praetorian Guard as a historical Roman military institution associated with imperial protection and service, including its changing composition, command relationships, duties and political interventions; it provisionally interprets the registry name as the collective institution rather than an individual guardsman's occupation.", "in_scope": [ "Institutional identity, historical phases and continuity", "Praetorian units, membership conditions and service arrangements", "Command relationships with emperors and praetorian prefects", "Imperial protection, deployments and other attested duties", "Collective involvement in imperial succession and political conflict", "Evidence and uncertainty supporting period-specific reconstructions" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Full biographies of individual guardsmen, prefects and emperors", "The Roman army and its general organisation beyond relevant relationships", "Other imperial bodyguard formations and Rome's urban forces as independent institutions", "The praetorian prefecture beyond its relationship to the Guard", "Republican commanders' guards except where relevant to institutional origins", "Metaphorical or modern uses of 'praetorian guard'" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "The referent is the collective Roman institution, rather than the occupation of guardsman or a particular person serving in it.", "Identification requires evidence of praetorian affiliation in the relevant period; guarding an emperor alone does not establish membership.", "Praetorian cohorts must be distinguished from urban cohorts, vigiles and other imperial protective units even when their locations or duties overlap.", "A praetorian prefect's title does not by itself establish that every power or action attributed to that office belonged to the Guard.", "The historical proper name must be distinguished from a figurative label for any ruler's politically influential security 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intermediate commander", "why_it_matters": "Separates formal command, claimed loyalty and observed obedience." }, { "name": "Praetorian composition", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Number of cohorts and personnel, distinguishing authorised strength, reported strength and estimates", "why_it_matters": "Prevents incompatible headcounts from being treated as equivalent descriptions." }, { "name": "Service and reward arrangement", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Attested recruitment route, eligibility, service term, pay, discharge benefit and extraordinary payment, each dated", "why_it_matters": "Supports identification of membership conditions and incentives without assuming they were constant." }, { "name": "Attested operational function", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "imperial protection | escort | ceremonial service | military deployment | coercive assignment | other attested function | uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes a documented assignment from a presumed permanent responsibility." }, { "name": "Political participation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Dated relationship between identified praetorian actors and an accession, acclamation, deposition, conspiracy or conflict", "why_it_matters": "Avoids attributing the conduct of a faction or commander to the entire institution." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify a reference as the Guard, a praetorian unit, a member or a figurative use.", "Construct a period-specific account of command, composition and service conditions.", "Compare competing reconstructions of cohort numbers, personnel strength or institutional changes.", "Trace which praetorian actors are evidenced in a protective operation, deployment or succession dispute.", "Flag claims that confuse the Guard with neighbouring forces or later functions of the prefecture.", "Determine whether an attribution is sufficiently supported for publication or requires further research." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "institutional-identity-and-continuity", "name": "Institutional identity and continuity", "description": "Establishes what the name denotes and how the institution is followed through historical change.", "rationale": "The registry supplies no definition and places the entry in a person-related domain, making the collective-versus-member boundary an explicit modelling issue.", "layers": [ { "id": "praetorian-referent", "name": "Praetorian referent", "description": "Separates the named institution from personnel, predecessor formations and figurative uses.", "findings": [ { "id": "collective-institution-boundary", "name": "Collective institution boundary", "description": "A usable identification must establish whether a reference concerns the Roman Guard collectively, a constituent unit or a guardsman.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the registry's underlying authority identify the Roman institution or the role of an individual praetorian?", "kind": "definition", "id": "collective-institution-boundary-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence separates this reference from a commander's earlier guard or a metaphorical protective circle?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "collective-institution-boundary-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "historical-phases", "name": "Historical phases", "description": "Tracks establishment, reorganisations and termination without assuming uninterrupted personnel or structure.", "findings": [ { "id": "continuity-across-reconstitution", "name": "Continuity across reconstitution", "description": "Changes in personnel, units and command require an explicit judgement about institutional continuity.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which events delimit the Guard's establishment, major reorganisations and final dissolution, and how securely are they dated?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "continuity-across-reconstitution-q01" }, { "text": "When personnel or cohorts were replaced, what supports treating the resulting force as the same institution?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "continuity-across-reconstitution-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "cohorts-and-service", "name": "Cohorts and service", "description": "Describes the Guard through its constituent formations and the conditions under which people served.", "rationale": "Praetorian membership and force size cannot be reconstructed reliably from a generic soldier profile.", "layers": [ { "id": "cohort-composition", "name": "Cohort composition", "description": "Records dated unit identities and distinguishes different measures of force size.", "findings": [ { "id": "dated-strength-reconstruction", "name": "Dated strength reconstruction", "description": "Any account of praetorian strength must separate cohort counts, assumed unit establishment and evidence of actual personnel.", "questions": [ { "text": "How many praetorian cohorts are attested for the selected period, and which sources identify them?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "dated-strength-reconstruction-q01" }, { "text": "Does a stated personnel total describe authorised establishment, effective strength or a modern estimate?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "dated-strength-reconstruction-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "entry-rewards-and-discharge", "name": "Entry, rewards and discharge", "description": "Captures recruitment, service obligations and material arrangements as period-dependent conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "praetorian-service-conditions", "name": "Praetorian service conditions", "description": "Eligibility, recruitment routes, service duration and rewards must be supported independently rather than inferred from ordinary legionary service.", "questions": [ { "text": "What recruitment routes, eligibility conditions and service terms are evidenced for this phase?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "praetorian-service-conditions-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes regular pay and discharge benefits from extraordinary donatives?", "kind": "definition", "id": "praetorian-service-conditions-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "imperial-command-and-attachment", "name": "Imperial command and attachment", "description": "Connects the Guard to emperors, claimants and commanders while distinguishing authority from allegiance.", "rationale": "The relationship between imperial protection, prefectural command and political loyalty is central to recognising the institution's state.", "layers": [ { "id": "prefects-and-command", "name": "Prefects and command", "description": "Reconstructs command relationships and limits attribution of prefectural powers to the Guard.", "findings": [ { "id": "dated-command-authority", "name": "Dated command authority", "description": "A command account must identify relevant officeholders and distinguish military command from other responsibilities of their offices.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who exercised command over the Guard in this interval, and what evidence establishes the command relationship?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "dated-command-authority-q01" }, { "text": "Which powers attributed to a praetorian prefect concerned the Guard, and which belonged to wider administrative or judicial functions?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "dated-command-authority-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "imperial-allegiance", "name": "Imperial allegiance", "description": "Distinguishes assigned service, professed allegiance and demonstrated support during contested rule.", "findings": [ { "id": "attachment-versus-obedience", "name": "Attachment versus obedience", "description": "Formal attachment to a ruler cannot alone establish how every praetorian unit or faction behaved.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which emperor or claimant did the relevant units formally serve, and what actions demonstrate their allegiance?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attachment-versus-obedience-q01" }, { "text": "Should conflicting evidence be represented as divided support, changing allegiance or unresolved attribution?", "kind": "action", "id": "attachment-versus-obedience-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "protection-and-deployment", "name": "Protection and deployment", "description": "Identifies where praetorians operated and which functions are evidenced in particular circumstances.", "rationale": "A bodyguard label alone cannot describe the Guard's assignments or distinguish it from other forces serving in the same setting.", "layers": [ { "id": "protective-and-public-duties", "name": "Protective and public duties", "description": "Separates imperial protection, escort, ceremony and coercive assignments.", "findings": [ { "id": "assignment-specific-function", "name": "Assignment-specific function", "description": "Functions must be attached to evidence of an assignment rather than projected onto the institution for all periods.", "questions": [ { "text": "What protective, escort, ceremonial or coercive task is explicitly attributed to praetorians in this episode?", "kind": "definition", "id": "assignment-specific-function-q01" }, { "text": "What identifies the participating force as praetorian rather than another imperial guard or urban formation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "assignment-specific-function-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "bases-and-field-service", "name": "Bases and field service", "description": "Relates stationing and campaigning to the participation of identifiable units or detachments.", "findings": [ { "id": "located-praetorian-presence", "name": "Located praetorian presence", "description": "Evidence of praetorian presence must distinguish a base, a temporary posting and a deployed contingent.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which evidence places praetorian personnel at the Castra Praetoria, another station or a campaign location during this interval?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "located-praetorian-presence-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence concern the whole Guard, named cohorts, a detachment or individual personnel?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "located-praetorian-presence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "political-agency-and-evidence", "name": "Political agency and evidence", "description": "Evaluates political involvement while preserving actor specificity and the limitations of surviving evidence.", "rationale": "Claims about praetorian political power can conflate institutional action, factional conduct and hostile retrospective narratives.", "layers": [ { "id": "succession-and-intervention", "name": "Succession and intervention", "description": "Attributes participation in contested imperial authority to the actors actually supported by evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-political-attribution", "name": "Bounded political attribution", "description": "Political participation must distinguish the Guard collectively from particular prefects, cohorts or conspirators and separate participation from causal responsibility.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which praetorian actors are evidenced in the accession, acclamation, deposition or conspiracy under examination?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bounded-political-attribution-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence support a decisive institutional intervention, a limited contribution or only an allegation?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bounded-political-attribution-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "source-criticism", "name": "Source criticism", "description": "Compares literary accounts with inscriptions and material evidence at the level of individual claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "claim-level-evidential-confidence", "name": "Claim-level evidential confidence", "description": "Reconstructions must identify their evidential basis, distinguish independent testimony from repetition and retain unresolved disagreements.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which ancient passages, inscriptions or archaeological records support the claim, and are the witnesses independent?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "claim-level-evidential-confidence-q01" }, { "text": "Should the claim be accepted, qualified or left open given source date, genre, 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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 Praetorian Guard, 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 Praetorian Guard, 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 Praetorian Guard 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 Praetorian Guard, 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 Praetorian Guard, 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 Praetorian Guard 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 Praetorian Guard 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 Praetorian Guard, 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 Praetorian Guard, 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 Praetorian Guard 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 Praetorian Guard from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Praetorian Guard, 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 Praetorian Guard, 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 Praetorian Guard 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 Praetorian Guard 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 Praetorian Guard is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a Praetorian Guard, 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 Praetorian Guard, 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 Praetorian Guard 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 Praetorian Guard 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 Praetorian Guard, 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 Praetorian Guard, 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 Praetorian Guard 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 Praetorian Guard 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 Praetorian Guard between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Praetorian Guard, 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 Praetorian Guard, 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 Praetorian Guard 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 Praetorian Guard, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a Praetorian Guard 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 Praetorian Guard, 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 Praetorian Guard, 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 Praetorian Guard is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "people-and-responsibility", "name": "People, roles and responsibility", "description": "Who stands in what relation to a Praetorian Guard.", "rationale": "Social things are defined by the relations people hold to them, and those relations change without the thing changing.", "layers": [ { "id": "roles-and-parties", "name": "Roles and parties", "description": "The roles that exist around a Praetorian Guard and who fills them.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-assignments", "name": "Role assignments and their validity", "description": "Who holds which role over a Praetorian Guard, from when, and on whose authority.", "questions": [ { "id": "role-assignments-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a Praetorian Guard, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about a role over a Praetorian Guard, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "role-assignments-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a role over a Praetorian Guard is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ownership-and-accountability", "name": "Ownership and accountability", "description": "Who answers for a Praetorian Guard and who may decide about it.", "findings": [ { "id": "accountability", "name": "Accountability and decision rights", "description": "Where responsibility for a Praetorian Guard sits when something goes wrong.", "questions": [ { "id": "accountability-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a Praetorian Guard, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about responsibility for a Praetorian Guard, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "accountability-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once responsibility for a Praetorian Guard is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "competence-and-licence", "name": "Competence, qualification and licence", "description": "What someone must be able to do, and be permitted to do, as Praetorian Guard.", "rationale": "The permission is jurisdictional and the competence is not, and conflating them is how an agent concludes someone may practise when they may not.", "layers": [ { "id": "competences", "name": "Competences and qualifications", "description": "Skills and credentials the role assumes.", "findings": [ { "id": "qualification-record", "name": "Qualifications and how they are evidenced", "description": "What counts as qualified, and what proves it.", "questions": [ { "id": "qualification-record-q01", "text": "What competences and qualifications does Praetorian Guard require, and how is each evidenced?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "qualification-record-q02", "text": "Which qualifications transfer between jurisdictions and which do not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "licensing", "name": "Licensing and the right to practise", "description": "Who grants permission, where it holds, and when it lapses.", "findings": [ { "id": "licence-record", "name": "Licence, issuer and validity", "description": "The permission, its issuer, its territory and its expiry.", "questions": [ { "id": "licence-record-q01", "text": "Who licenses Praetorian Guard, in which territory, and for how long?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "licence-record-q02", "text": "What may an unlicensed person not do, and what must an agent refuse to assume?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "tasks-and-accountability", "name": "Tasks, employment and accountability", "description": "What Praetorian Guard actually does and who answers for it.", "rationale": "A role is filled by people under an arrangement, and the arrangement decides liability, supervision and who may instruct whom.", "layers": [ { "id": "tasks", "name": "Tasks and typical duties", "description": "The work itself, and how it differs by setting.", "findings": [ { "id": "duty-record", "name": "Duties and setting", "description": "What the role does and where the work varies.", "questions": [ { "id": "duty-record-q01", "text": "What tasks define Praetorian Guard, and how do they differ between settings or seniority?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "duty-record-q02", "text": "Which tasks may only be done by this role, and which are shared with neighbouring roles?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "accountability", "name": "Employment and accountability", "description": "The relation under which the work is done and where responsibility sits.", "findings": [ { "id": "responsibility", "name": "Responsibility and supervision", "description": "Who instructs, who supervises, who is liable.", "questions": [ { "id": "responsibility-q01", "text": "Under what arrangement does someone act as Praetorian Guard, and who supervises or is liable?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "responsibility-q02", "text": "When something goes wrong, what does the model need to have recorded to answer who was responsible?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a Praetorian Guard 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 Praetorian Guard and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Praetorian Guard, 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 Praetorian Guard, 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 Praetorian Guard 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 Praetorian Guard is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Praetorian Guard, 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 Praetorian Guard, 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 Praetorian Guard is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 7, "layers": 14, "findings": 16, "questions": 44 } } } }