{ "model": { "rank": 6602, "code": "thing-q19035", "model_id": "vr.tr.cloaca", "name": "cloaca", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise a cloaca, record its taxon-dependent anatomy and condition, and identify appropriate observations or specialist assessment.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q19035/", "tier": 2, "score": 59, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 59, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q19035", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19035", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-09T23:06:20Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 18.4, "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: 01a0886b-526b-70e2-9708-009dce0ebdf2\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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the shared terminal chamber and its interfaces with digestive, urinary and reproductive pathways, distinguished from its external opening and from the organism as a whole.", "in_scope": [ "Identification of a shared terminal chamber and the pathways communicating with it", "Taxon-dependent compartments, tissue boundaries and external opening", "Passage of digestive, urinary and reproductive material where applicable", "Developmental stage and reproductive context affecting interpretation", "Observed integrity, patency and local abnormalities" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Whole-organism taxonomy, habitat and conservation status", "Upstream digestive, urinary and reproductive organs beyond their cloacal interfaces", "The external vent treated as synonymous with the entire chamber", "Independent models of diseases, parasites and their treatments", "Sewers, drainage works and other non-anatomical meanings of cloaca" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Identify a chamber receiving multiple terminal bodily pathways rather than classifying an isolated anal opening as a cloaca.", "Distinguish the internal chamber from the vent through which it opens externally.", "Establish which digestive, urinary and reproductive pathways actually communicate with the chamber in the taxon and individual concerned.", "Distinguish persistent adult anatomy from a transient developmental structure or an anomalous persistent connection.", "Require anatomical evidence before applying compartment names described for another taxon." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Host organism and anatomical context", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Linked organism or specimen; taxon; life stage; relevant reproductive anatomy", "why_it_matters": "The same anatomical term can denote substantially different arrangements across organisms and developmental stages." }, { "name": "Communicating pathways", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Digestive, urinary and reproductive connections, each recorded as 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against an appropriate taxon-specific reference.", "Record passage events and local tissue observations with their examination context.", "Compare measurements with references matched to host, life stage and physiological state.", "Identify observations requiring qualified assessment and document the limits of available evidence." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "cloacal-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Cloacal identity and boundaries", "description": "Establish whether the structure is a cloaca and where its anatomical ownership begins and ends.", "rationale": "A shared chamber, an anal opening and an external vent must not be treated as interchangeable structures.", "layers": [ { "id": "shared-chamber-identification", "name": "Shared chamber identification", "description": "Identify the terminal chamber through its anatomical connections.", "findings": [ { "id": "communicating-terminal-pathways", "name": "Communicating terminal pathways", "description": "Record the evidence for each digestive, urinary or reproductive connection without assuming all are present or active.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which terminal pathways demonstrably open into this chamber?", "kind": "definition", "id": "communicating-terminal-pathways-q01" }, { "text": "Are these connections established for this individual, inferred from its taxon or still unresolved?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "communicating-terminal-pathways-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "chamber-and-vent-boundaries", "name": "Chamber and vent boundaries", "description": "Separate the internal cloaca from its external opening and adjoining structures.", "findings": [ { "id": "anatomical-limits", "name": "Anatomical limits", "description": "Locate the chamber's interfaces with incoming pathways and its outlet to the exterior.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which landmarks delimit the cloaca from each adjoining duct or gut segment?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "anatomical-limits-q01" }, { "text": "Does the available observation describe the chamber itself, only the vent or both?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "anatomical-limits-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "taxon-specific-cloacal-anatomy", "name": "Taxon-specific cloacal anatomy", "description": "Describe the chamber's internal arrangement using terminology appropriate to its host.", "rationale": "Compartment names and duct arrangements cannot safely be generalised across all cloaca-bearing organisms.", "layers": [ { "id": "internal-compartments", "name": "Internal compartments", "description": "Record supported subdivisions and their anatomical landmarks.", "findings": [ { "id": "compartment-applicability", "name": "Compartment applicability", "description": "Determine whether subdivisions are identifiable and which names the relevant anatomical reference supports.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is this cloaca subdivided, and what landmarks establish each compartment?", "kind": "definition", "id": "compartment-applicability-q01" }, { "text": "Does a reference for this taxon support applying names such as coprodeum, urodeum and proctodeum?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "compartment-applicability-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "duct-and-outlet-topology", "name": "Duct and outlet topology", "description": "Map where incoming pathways terminate and how the chamber reaches the exterior.", "findings": [ { "id": "opening-map", "name": "Opening map", "description": "Represent the positions of verified duct openings, intervening boundaries and external outlet.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where does each verified incoming pathway open relative to the chamber's landmarks?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "opening-map-q01" }, { "text": "What examination or reference establishes the outlet configuration and any associated folds or sphincters?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "opening-map-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "development-and-cloacal-function", "name": "Development and cloacal function", "description": "Interpret the chamber in relation to development and the material passing through it.", "rationale": "Anatomical persistence and functional use depend on life stage and host biology.", "layers": [ { "id": "developmental-interpretation", "name": "Developmental interpretation", "description": "Distinguish expected anatomy from a temporary structure or suspected developmental anomaly.", "findings": [ { "id": "persistence-context", "name": "Persistence context", "description": "Record whether a cloaca is expected at the observed stage without importing assumptions from another host.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is a cloaca expected to persist at this life stage in this taxon?", "kind": "definition", "id": "persistence-context-q01" }, { "text": "What developmental evidence distinguishes expected anatomy from a suspected anomalous persistent communication?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "persistence-context-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-passage", "name": "Material passage", "description": "Record the chamber's demonstrated involvement in elimination and reproduction.", "findings": [ { "id": "passage-events-and-routes", "name": "Passage events and routes", "description": "Distinguish observed passage of material from functions presumed on anatomical grounds.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which digestive, urinary or reproductive materials have been observed passing through the cloaca, and under what conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "passage-events-and-routes-q01" }, { "text": "Which claimed functions are supported for this taxon, and which remain inferred or unassessed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "passage-events-and-routes-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "cloacal-condition-and-assessment", "name": "Cloacal condition and assessment", "description": "Record local condition and determine what further assessment the evidence supports.", "rationale": "External observations can suggest a problem while leaving its internal location and cause unresolved.", "layers": [ { "id": "local-condition-observations", "name": "Local condition observations", "description": "Describe tissue appearance and passage separately from diagnostic interpretation.", "findings": [ { "id": "integrity-and-patency", "name": "Integrity and patency", "description": "Record visible changes, protruding tissue and evidence of impaired passage with precise localisation.", "questions": [ { "text": "What changes in tissue integrity, swelling, discharge or protrusion are observed, and are they localised to the vent or internal chamber?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "integrity-and-patency-q01" }, { "text": "Is impaired passage demonstrated by observation, suspected from behaviour or currently unassessed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "integrity-and-patency-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "assessment-and-sampling-limits", "name": "Assessment and sampling limits", "description": "Connect observations to appropriate examination and interpretable sample collection.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-guided-next-action", "name": "Evidence-guided next action", "description": "Identify a justified next assessment while preserving uncertainty about tissue origin and mixed chamber contents.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which observed findings justify qualified clinical or veterinary assessment for this host?", "kind": "action", "id": "evidence-guided-next-action-q01" }, { "text": "If a cloacal sample is collected, what collection site and method must be recorded to interpret its potentially mixed origins?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "evidence-guided-next-action-q02" }, { "text": "What taxon-specific expertise and protocol are required before internal examination or sampling?", "kind": "action", "id": "evidence-guided-next-action-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing 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"kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Avian cloaca", "Reptilian cloaca", "Amphibian cloaca", "Monotreme cloaca", "Embryonic cloaca" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of cloaca this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Provides a shared passage for digestive waste, urinary products and reproductive material.", "Participates in mating and egg laying in many species.", "Provides an anatomical site for veterinary examination and diagnostic sampling.", "Serves as a structure for studying vertebrate development and comparative anatomy." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of cloaca this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Cloacal prolapse, in which internal tissue protrudes through the external opening.", "Cloacitis, or inflammation of cloacal tissue.", "Obstruction or injury affecting waste passage or reproduction.", "Congenital abnormalities of cloacal partitioning can produce abnormal connections among intestinal, urinary and genital tracts." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of cloaca this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Vent", "difference": "The vent is the external opening; the cloaca is the internal chamber." }, { "name": "Anus", "difference": "An anus is the terminal opening of the digestive tract rather than an opening from a chamber shared with urinary and reproductive tracts." }, { "name": "Urogenital sinus", "difference": "A urogenital sinus receives urinary and genital passages but does not ordinarily receive the intestinal tract." }, { "name": "Persistent cloaca", "difference": "Persistent cloaca is a congenital human malformation involving a shared outlet for rectal, urinary and genital passages; a cloaca is normal anatomy in many other vertebrates." }, { "name": "Cloacal bursa", "difference": "The cloacal bursa, or bursa of Fabricius, is an avian lymphoid organ associated with the cloaca, not the shared chamber itself." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of cloaca this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend this entry to cover both expected zoological anatomy and developmental or congenital cloacal structures, or should the latter be linked to neighbouring models?", "Which authoritative comparative anatomy references should establish chamber boundaries and terminology for each represented taxon?", "Which taxa require additional modelling of specialised cloacal functions, and what evidence supports those additions?", "What reference measurements and assessment criteria are available for particular taxa, life stages and reproductive states?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already own this anatomical concept, requiring this registry entry to link to it?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 13, "questions": 22 } }, "draft": { "generator": 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Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.", "facetsInferred": true, "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. 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Form alone rarely separates two models that do very different things." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 59 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 cloaca from another, and a cloaca 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 cloaca, 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 cloaca, 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 cloaca 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 cloaca, 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 cloaca, 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 cloaca 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 cloaca 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 cloaca, 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 cloaca, 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 cloaca 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 cloaca from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a cloaca, 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 cloaca, 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 cloaca 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 cloaca 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 cloaca, 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 cloaca, 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 cloaca 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 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"findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition, damage and health", "description": "How the condition of a cloaca is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a cloaca, 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 cloaca, 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 cloaca 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 cloaca 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 cloaca is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a cloaca, 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 cloaca, 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 cloaca 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 cloaca 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 cloaca, 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 cloaca, 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 cloaca 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 cloaca 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 cloaca between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a cloaca, 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 cloaca, 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 cloaca 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 cloaca, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a cloaca 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 cloaca, 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 cloaca, 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 cloaca 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 cloaca 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 cloaca 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 cloaca, 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 cloaca 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 cloaca 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 cloaca 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 cloaca 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 cloaca 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 cloaca, 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 cloaca 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 cloaca and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a cloaca, 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 cloaca, 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 cloaca 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 cloaca is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a cloaca, 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 cloaca, 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 cloaca 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 } } } }