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        "name": "cyst",
        "purpose": "Let an agent explain cysts and their kinds, relay causes, evaluation and treatment from medical references in general terms, route people with lumps or symptoms to clinicians, and distinguish cysts from abscesses, tumours, pseudocysts and the biological sense of cyst in microorganisms.",
        "family": "Thing Registry",
        "category": "Activities and processes",
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        "domain": "ACT.ACT",
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        "version": "",
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        "tier": 2,
        "score": 51,
        "payload": {
            "layer": "wikidata",
            "aliases": [
                "pancreatic cyst",
                "congenital pancreatic cyst",
                "brain cyst",
                "adrenal cyst",
                "ganglion cyst",
                "apical cyst",
                "radicular cyst",
                "renal cyst",
                "pulmonary cyst",
                "oral cyst",
                "Median palatal cyst",
                "Cutaneous columnar cyst",
                "Hydatid of Morgagni",
                "cyst of the jaws",
                "colloid cyst",
                "Tornwaldt cyst",
                "Laryngeal cyst",
                "facet cyst",
                "keratocyst",
                "Nabothian cyst",
                "epididymal cyst",
                "synovial cyst",
                "epidermoid cyst",
                "central nervous system cyst",
                "Epstein's pearls",
                "esophageal cyst",
                "Gartner's duct cyst",
                "trichilemmal cyst",
                "Keratin implantation cyst",
                "Cervical thymic cyst",
                "follicular cyst",
                "mesenteric cyst",
                "mucocele",
                "Nasopharyngeal cyst",
                "Nasolabial cyst",
                "Omphalomesenteric duct cyst",
                "paraovarian cyst",
                "sebaceous cyst",
                "Meniscal cyst",
                "Urachal cyst"
            ],
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            "merged": 65,
            "knownIn": 51,
            "facets": null,
            "markers": [],
            "lexicalClass": "",
            "senseRank": null,
            "alsoRegisteredAs": null,
            "source": {
                "dataset": "wikidata",
                "item": "Q193211",
                "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193211",
                "license": "CC0 1.0"
            }
        },
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                "status": "research-draft",
                "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed",
                "publishableCanonical": false,
                "generatedAt": "2026-09-13T07:14:03Z",
                "providers": [
                    "Claude"
                ],
                "breadth": "written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify",
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                "wave": 3,
                "engine": "claude"
            },
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                "id": "THING-Q193211",
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                "name": "cyst",
                "version": "0.2.0-wave.3",
                "entryKind": "thing",
                "family": "Thing Registry",
                "domain": [
                    "ACT.ACT"
                ],
                "status": "research-draft"
            },
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            "model": {
                "registry_id": "vr.tr.cyst",
                "name": "cyst",
                "purpose": "Let an agent explain cysts and their kinds, relay causes, evaluation and treatment from medical references in general terms, route people with lumps or symptoms to clinicians, and distinguish cysts from abscesses, tumours, pseudocysts and the biological sense of cyst in microorganisms.",
                "definition": "A closed sac-like lesion with a distinct membrane containing fluid, air or semi-solid material, arising in almost any tissue, including ganglion cysts near joints, pancreatic cysts including congenital forms, brain cysts, adrenal cysts, apical cysts at tooth roots, ovarian and kidney cysts, and cysts of infectious origin; most cysts are benign and many need no treatment, but some require imaging, drainage or surgery, and any new lump should be assessed by a clinician.",
                "what_it_is_for": "Not applicable; a lesion.",
                "affordances": [
                    "explain kinds",
                    "relay evaluation and treatment",
                    "route to clinicians",
                    "distinguish related lesions"
                ],
                "distinguishing_features": [
                    "Membrane-lined sac",
                    "Fluid or semi-solid contents",
                    "Any tissue",
                    "Mostly benign"
                ],
                "appearance": "A rounded lump or a fluid-filled cavity seen on imaging.",
                "visual_identification": [
                    "Closed sac with membrane and contents",
                    "Ganglion, pancreatic, brain, adrenal, apical, ovarian, kidney cysts",
                    "An abscess contains pus from infection; a tumour is a solid mass; a pseudocyst lacks an epithelial lining; a microbial cyst is a dormant stage"
                ],
                "physical_properties": [
                    {
                        "quantity": "common skin cysts",
                        "typical_range": "epidermoid and pilar",
                        "unit": "list",
                        "note": ""
                    },
                    {
                        "quantity": "simple kidney cysts",
                        "typical_range": "common after 50",
                        "unit": "note",
                        "note": ""
                    },
                    {
                        "quantity": "ganglion cysts",
                        "typical_range": "most common hand lump",
                        "unit": "note",
                        "note": ""
                    }
                ],
                "families_and_kinds": [
                    "skin cysts such as epidermoid and pilar",
                    "ganglion cysts",
                    "pancreatic cysts including congenital and neoplastic",
                    "brain and spinal cysts",
                    "adrenal, kidney and liver cysts",
                    "ovarian cysts",
                    "apical and other dental cysts",
                    "infectious cysts such as hydatid"
                ],
                "related_models": [
                    {
                        "relation": "is a kind of",
                        "target": "lesion",
                        "why": "in registry terms"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is contrasted with",
                        "target": "abscess",
                        "why": "a collection of pus"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is contrasted with",
                        "target": "pseudocyst",
                        "why": "lacking an epithelial lining"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is evaluated by",
                        "target": "medical imaging",
                        "why": "such as ultrasound"
                    }
                ],
                "identifiers": [
                    {
                        "scheme": "MeSH",
                        "value_or_pattern": "D003560",
                        "note": "Cysts"
                    }
                ],
                "standards_and_regulation": [
                    "Clinical guidelines for specific cysts such as pancreatic and ovarian",
                    "No general regulation"
                ],
                "failure_modes_and_hazards": [
                    "Missing a malignant lesion mistaken for a cyst",
                    "Agents giving personal medical advice",
                    "Confusing cysts with the microbial sense"
                ],
                "in_scope": [],
                "out_of_scope": [],
                "characteristics": []
            },
            "sources": [],
            "structure": {
                "bundles": [
                    {
                        "id": "understand",
                        "name": "Understand",
                        "description": "What a cyst is.",
                        "rationale": "Clinical.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "definition",
                                "name": "Definition",
                                "description": "Definition.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "definition-finding",
                                        "name": "Definition",
                                        "description": "Definition.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What is a cyst, and how does it differ from an abscess, tumour, pseudocyst and microbial cyst?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the user describing a lump or symptoms of their own, which need a clinician?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "kinds",
                                "name": "Kinds",
                                "description": "Kinds.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "kinds-finding",
                                        "name": "Kinds",
                                        "description": "Kinds.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What are ganglion, pancreatic, brain, adrenal, apical, ovarian and kidney cysts?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits the specific cyst?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "care",
                        "name": "Care",
                        "description": "Evaluation and treatment.",
                        "rationale": "Clinical.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "evaluation",
                                "name": "Evaluation",
                                "description": "Evaluation.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "evaluation-finding",
                                        "name": "Evaluation",
                                        "description": "Evaluation.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How are cysts evaluated with examination, imaging and sometimes biopsy, in general terms?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which references are standard?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "treatment",
                                "name": "Treatment",
                                "description": "Treatment.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "treatment-finding",
                                        "name": "Treatment",
                                        "description": "Treatment.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "When are cysts observed, drained or removed, as guidelines state?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which sources are cited?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "causes",
                        "name": "Causes",
                        "description": "Causes.",
                        "rationale": "Science.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "mechanisms",
                                "name": "Mechanisms",
                                "description": "Mechanisms.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "mechanisms-finding",
                                        "name": "Mechanisms",
                                        "description": "Mechanisms.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How do cysts form, from blocked ducts and developmental remnants to infection and genetics?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits the specific mechanism?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "genetic",
                                "name": "Genetic",
                                "description": "Genetic cyst diseases.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "genetic-finding",
                                        "name": "Genetic",
                                        "description": "Genetic.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What are polycystic kidney and other genetic cystic diseases, in general terms?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits polycystic kidney disease?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "context",
                        "name": "Context",
                        "description": "Other senses.",
                        "rationale": "Context.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "biology",
                                "name": "Biology",
                                "description": "Microbial cysts.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "biology-finding",
                                        "name": "Biology",
                                        "description": "Biology.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What is a cyst in protozoa and other organisms?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits microbial cyst?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "history",
                                "name": "History",
                                "description": "History.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "history-finding",
                                        "name": "History",
                                        "description": "History.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How has understanding of cysts developed in pathology?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits the history of pathology?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "openQuestions": [
                "Should ganglion, pancreatic and ovarian cysts be separate primary entries?",
                "How should medical references be linked?",
                "The registry entry has merged aliases naming specific cysts; should they be split off?"
            ],
            "statistics": {
                "bundles": 4,
                "layers": 8,
                "findings": 8,
                "questions": 16
            }
        },
        "draft": {
            "generator": "vr.draft.v3",
            "status": "draft-generated",
            "researched": false,
            "archetype": "abstract concept",
            "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. 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. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.",
            "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a cyst, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.",
            "whatItIs": "Let an agent explain cysts and their kinds, relay causes, evaluation and treatment from medical references in general terms, route people with lumps or symptoms to clinicians, and distinguish cysts from abscesses, tumours, pseudocysts and the biological sense of cyst in microorganisms.",
            "characteristics": {
                "substance": "activity",
                "origin": "conceptual",
                "agency": "inert"
            },
            "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [
                "observed and measured"
            ],
            "distinguishingFeatures": [
                "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: pancreatic cyst, congenital pancreatic cyst, brain cyst, adrenal cyst, ganglion cyst, apical cyst, radicular cyst, renal cyst, pulmonary cyst, oral cyst, Median palatal cyst, Cutaneous columnar cyst.",
                "65 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.",
                "Described in 51 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 cyst, and on what evidence are they told apart?"
            ],
            "whatItIsMadeOf": "something that happens over time",
            "physicalCharacter": [
                "Does nothing on its own; everything it does, something else did to it.",
                "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": [
                "Nothing to see. What is recognised is an instance of it, and which instances count is exactly what is argued about."
            ],
            "relatedModels": [
                {
                    "relation": "covers",
                    "note": "Finer kinds folded into this entry because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it. Each is a model waiting to be split out when one does.",
                    "targets": [
                        "pancreatic cyst",
                        "congenital pancreatic cyst",
                        "brain cyst",
                        "adrenal cyst",
                        "ganglion cyst",
                        "apical cyst",
                        "radicular cyst",
                        "renal cyst",
                        "pulmonary cyst",
                        "oral cyst",
                        "Median palatal cyst",
                        "Cutaneous columnar cyst"
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "standing": "Described in 51 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 65 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.",
            "structure": {
                "bundles": [
                    {
                        "id": "identity-and-classification",
                        "name": "Identity, naming and classification",
                        "description": "How an agent tells one cyst from another, and a cyst 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 cyst, 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 cyst, 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 cyst 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 cyst, 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 cyst, 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 cyst 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 cyst 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 cyst, 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 cyst, 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 cyst 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 cyst from the things most often confused with it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a cyst, 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 cyst, 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 cyst 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 cyst 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 cyst between them.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a cyst, 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 cyst, 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 cyst 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 cyst, how often and by whom.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "observation-record",
                                        "name": "Observation record",
                                        "description": "How an observation of a cyst 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 cyst, 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 cyst, 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 cyst is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "process-and-outcome",
                        "name": "Process, inputs and outcome",
                        "description": "How a cyst proceeds, what it needs and what it leaves behind.",
                        "rationale": "An activity is known by its steps and its results, and both have to be recordable while it is still running.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "steps-and-sequence",
                                "name": "Steps and sequence",
                                "description": "The steps of a cyst, their order and what may run in parallel.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "steps-and-preconditions",
                                        "name": "Steps, preconditions and completion",
                                        "description": "What has to be true before each step of a cyst and what marks it done.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a step of a cyst, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about a step of a cyst, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "steps-and-preconditions-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a step of a cyst is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "inputs-and-results",
                                "name": "Inputs, resources and results",
                                "description": "What a cyst consumes and what it produces.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "inputs-and-outputs",
                                        "name": "Inputs, outputs and side effects",
                                        "description": "The resources a cyst takes and the results it leaves, wanted or not.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the inputs and results of a cyst, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the inputs and results of a cyst, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "inputs-and-outputs-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the inputs and results of a cyst is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "definitions-in-contest",
                        "name": "Definitions and who holds them",
                        "description": "What cyst is taken to mean, and by whom.",
                        "rationale": "When a field disagrees about a concept, the disagreement is the content. A model that picks one definition silently destroys the information.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "competing-definitions",
                                "name": "Competing definitions",
                                "description": "The main readings and the traditions behind them.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "definition-map",
                                        "name": "Definitions and their holders",
                                        "description": "Each definition with the school or body that holds it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "definition-map-q01",
                                                "text": "Which definitions of cyst are in use, and which tradition or body holds each?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "definition-map-q02",
                                                "text": "What turns on the difference between them in practice?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "operationalisation",
                                "name": "Operationalisation",
                                "description": "How it is measured or applied when it has to be.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "operational-record",
                                        "name": "Measures and proxies",
                                        "description": "Instruments and indicators used to stand in for it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "operational-record-q01",
                                                "text": "How is cyst operationalised or measured in practice, and by what instrument?",
                                                "kind": "measurement"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "operational-record-q02",
                                                "text": "What does that operationalisation leave out, and when does that matter?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "instances-and-use",
                        "name": "Instances, use and consequence",
                        "description": "What counts as an instance of cyst and what follows from calling something that.",
                        "rationale": "Applying a concept is an act with consequences, so a model must say what the label licenses and what it does not.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "instances",
                                "name": "What counts as an instance",
                                "description": "Clear cases, borderline cases and non-cases.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "instance-tests",
                                        "name": "Tests for an instance",
                                        "description": "What would settle whether something falls under it.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "instance-tests-q01",
                                                "text": "What would settle whether something is an instance of cyst?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "instance-tests-q02",
                                                "text": "Which borderline cases are argued about, and on what grounds?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "consequence",
                                "name": "Consequence of application",
                                "description": "Rights, duties or decisions that follow from the label.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "consequence-record",
                                        "name": "What the label licenses",
                                        "description": "What an agent may do once something is classified this way.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "consequence-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What follows practically once something is treated as cyst?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "consequence-record-q02",
                                                "text": "What must an agent not infer from the label alone?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "provenance-and-evidence",
                        "name": "Provenance, evidence and time",
                        "description": "Where every claim about a cyst 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 cyst and how confident it is.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a cyst, 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 cyst, 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 cyst 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 cyst is retired without being erased.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a cyst, 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 cyst, 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 cyst is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "statistics": {
                "bundles": 6,
                "layers": 12,
                "findings": 14,
                "questions": 38
            }
        }
    }
}