{ "model": { "rank": 5691, "code": "thing-q212743", "model_id": "vr.tr.epidermis", "name": "epidermis", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise epidermis in its organism and anatomical context, assess its condition, and identify appropriate observation or intervention constraints.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.LIV", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q212743/", "tier": 2, "score": 65, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "tegument" ], "aliasCount": 1, "merged": 1, "knownIn": 65, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q212743", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q212743", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T09:01:27Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "missingProviders": [ "Grok" ], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": null, "turns": null, "seconds": 13.9, "error": "Error: Internal error: {\n \"message\": \"API error (status 402 Payment Required): Grok Build usage balance exhausted\",\n \"http_status\": 402\n}", "retried": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 70.9, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.3\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: 01a07b18-ca3a-7901-80b5-01d6a6a807b0\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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require distinct context-dependent descriptions.", "in_scope": [ "Organism, organ, surface and developmental context needed to identify an epidermal region", "Boundaries between epidermis, underlying tissues and associated surface materials", "Context-specific cellular organisation, differentiation and surface specialisations", "Epidermal continuity, permeability and exchange functions", "Observed damage, renewal or repair and constraints on sampling or intervention" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Whole-skin organisation, including dermis and hypodermis beyond their epidermal interfaces", "Whole-organ physiology and organism-wide health assessment", "Internal epithelia that are not identified as epidermis", "Plant periderm and other replacement protective tissues", "Independent models of pathogens, diseases, treatments and laboratory instruments" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Verify that organism-specific anatomy identifies the tissue as epidermis; an exposed position alone does not distinguish epidermis from other surface coverings.", "In animal skin, establish the boundary between the epidermal epithelial compartment and underlying connective tissue; do not identify dermis as epidermis.", "In plants, distinguish the epidermal system from underlying ground tissues and from periderm where a replacement covering has developed.", "Distinguish the cellular epidermal tissue from associated noncellular surface material, such as a plant cuticle, while recording their functional relationship.", "Check whether the object is intact tissue, an isolated epidermal preparation or a cultured reconstruction before interpreting its organisation or function." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Organism and anatomical context", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Organism or taxon; organ; anatomical site; exposed surface", "why_it_matters": "Determines which epidermal structures and functions are applicable." }, { "name": "Developmental and specimen context", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Developmental stage; intact organism, explant, isolated preparation or reconstruction", "why_it_matters": "Prevents comparison of tissues whose maturity or preparation changes their expected properties." }, { "name": "Epidermal thickness", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "µm, with measurement direction, anatomical boundaries and preparation method", "why_it_matters": "Supports site-specific assessment of organisation and change without assuming a universal normal thickness." }, { "name": "Cellular layering and differentiation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Observed layer count, named strata where applicable and identified differentiation states", "why_it_matters": "Helps distinguish epidermal types and detect departures from their expected organisation." }, { "name": "Surface specialisations", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Context-dependent structures, including cornified layers, cuticle association, stomata, trichomes or root hairs; absent or unassessed", "why_it_matters": "Connects tissue identity with protection, absorption and regulated exchange." }, { "name": "Surface continuity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Continuous, disrupted, detached or indeterminate, with affected location and extent", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes an intact covering from lesions and specimen artefacts." }, { "name": "Water transfer across the epidermal surface", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "g·m⁻²·h⁻¹, with organism-appropriate method and environmental conditions", "why_it_matters": "Provides context-dependent evidence of barrier or exchange performance." }, { "name": "Renewal or repair condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed growth, differentiation, shedding, repair or unresolved change, with time and evidence", "why_it_matters": "Separates a static appearance from an evolving tissue process." }, { "name": "Attachment to underlying tissue", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Identified underlying tissue and interface; attached, separated or unassessed", "why_it_matters": "Supports boundary recognition and interpretation of tissue separation." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify a candidate epidermal region using organism, site and observed tissue organisation.", "Map epidermal boundaries, specialised structures and areas of discontinuity.", "Select context-appropriate imaging, thickness or barrier measurements and record their limitations.", "Compare observations over time or against matched anatomical and developmental references.", "Assess whether sampling or surface manipulation would compromise a protective or exchange function.", "Identify observations that require specialist assessment before an intervention is considered." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "epidermal-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Epidermal identity and boundaries", "description": "Establish which epidermis is being represented and where its tissue compartment begins and ends.", "rationale": "The name spans different biological contexts, and surface position alone is insufficient for identification.", "layers": [ { "id": "organism-and-site", "name": "Organism and site", "description": "Locate the tissue in its biological and anatomical context.", "findings": [ { "id": "context-supported-identity", "name": "Context-supported identity", "description": "Record the evidence supporting identification as epidermis for this organism, organ and developmental stage.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which organism, organ, surface and developmental stage does this epidermis belong to?", "kind": "definition", "id": "context-supported-identity-q01" }, { "text": "Which anatomical reference or specimen observation supports calling this tissue epidermis?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "context-supported-identity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "tissue-compartment", "name": "Tissue compartment", "description": "Separate epidermis from adjoining tissues and associated surface coverings.", "findings": [ { "id": "epidermal-limits", "name": "Epidermal limits", "description": "Record the boundaries used to include cells and structures in the represented epidermal region.", "questions": [ { "text": "What observable interface separates this epidermis from its underlying tissue?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "epidermal-limits-q01" }, { "text": "Which surface materials or structures are included, and which are linked as associated structures, such as cuticle or appendages?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "epidermal-limits-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "cellular-organisation-and-specialisation", "name": "Cellular organisation and specialisation", "description": "Describe the tissue architecture and specialised epidermal structures applicable to the identified context.", "rationale": "Epidermal recognition and functional interpretation depend on organisation that differs across organisms and sites.", "layers": [ { "id": "layers-and-cell-states", "name": "Layers and cell states", "description": "Capture epidermal thickness, layering and differentiation without imposing one organism's anatomy on another.", "findings": [ { "id": "observed-epidermal-architecture", "name": "Observed epidermal architecture", "description": "Record observed layers and cell states together with the methods used to resolve them.", "questions": [ { "text": "How many cellular layers or recognisable strata are present, and how were their identities established?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "observed-epidermal-architecture-q01" }, { "text": "What is the epidermal thickness at the sampled locations, and which boundaries and preparation method define that measurement?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "observed-epidermal-architecture-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "specialised-surface-structures", "name": "Specialised surface structures", "description": "Record structures that modify epidermal protection, exchange or interaction with the environment.", "findings": [ { "id": "context-specific-specialisations", "name": "Context-specific specialisations", "description": "Identify applicable specialisations and distinguish confirmed absence from lack of observation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which specialisations are present at this site, such as cornification, stomata, trichomes or root hairs?", "kind": "definition", "id": "context-specific-specialisations-q01" }, { "text": "What are their distribution, density or extent within the observed epidermal region?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "context-specific-specialisations-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "barrier-and-exchange-performance", "name": "Barrier and exchange performance", "description": "Connect epidermal structure with measured protection and exchange at the organism-environment interface.", "rationale": "An epidermis may appear continuous while its functional performance remains altered or unmeasured.", "layers": [ { "id": "covering-integrity", "name": "Covering integrity", "description": "Assess continuity and attachment while distinguishing normal openings from disruption.", "findings": [ { "id": "continuity-and-separation", "name": "Continuity and separation", "description": "Locate breaks or separation and record evidence distinguishing them from normal anatomy or handling artefacts.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where is the epidermal covering interrupted or separated, and what proportion of the observed region is affected?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "continuity-and-separation-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes a normal opening, a biological lesion and damage introduced during preparation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "continuity-and-separation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "surface-transfer", "name": "Surface transfer", "description": "Assess water, gas or substance movement using methods appropriate to this epidermal context.", "findings": [ { "id": "measured-exchange-function", "name": "Measured exchange function", "description": "Record functional measurements with the conditions and anatomical pathways needed to interpret them.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which barrier or exchange property was measured, by what method, and under what temperature, humidity and specimen conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "measured-exchange-function-q01" }, { "text": "Can the measured transfer be attributed to the epidermis, or does it also include associated coverings, openings or underlying tissues?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "measured-exchange-function-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "epidermal-change-and-intervention", "name": "Epidermal change and intervention", "description": "Track epidermal change and determine constraints on observation, sampling and manipulation.", "rationale": "Decisions require distinguishing expected tissue dynamics from damage and anticipating effects on epidermal function.", "layers": [ { "id": "growth-renewal-and-repair", "name": "Growth, renewal and repair", "description": "Interpret changes against the organism's developmental and site-specific tissue behaviour.", "findings": [ { "id": "time-dependent-tissue-condition", "name": "Time-dependent tissue condition", "description": "Record evidence of growth, differentiation, shedding or repair without assuming that all epidermis renews in the same way.", "questions": [ { "text": "What epidermal features changed between observations, over what interval and at which matched locations?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "time-dependent-tissue-condition-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports interpreting the change as development, renewal, repair or unresolved damage?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "time-dependent-tissue-condition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "sampling-and-manipulation", "name": "Sampling and manipulation", "description": "Relate proposed actions to epidermal depth, specialised structures and protective or exchange functions.", "findings": [ { "id": "epidermis-specific-action-constraints", "name": "Epidermis-specific action constraints", "description": "Record what a proposed procedure would contact or remove and what evidence is needed to judge its acceptability.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which epidermal layers, surface coverings or specialised structures would the proposed action contact, remove or disrupt?", "kind": "action", "id": "epidermis-specific-action-constraints-q01" }, { "text": "What organism- and site-specific evidence, permissions and expertise are required before accepting the resulting barrier or exchange changes?", "kind": "action", "id": "epidermis-specific-action-constraints-q02" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend epidermis to cover both animal and plant usage, and how should other taxonomic usages be handled within this single entry?", "Which associated structures should be represented as epidermal components versus links to neighbouring models, particularly plant cuticle and epidermal appendages?", "Which reference methods and comparison ranges are defensible for each organism, anatomical site, developmental stage and specimen preparation?", "What evidence is sufficient to distinguish biological damage from preparation artefacts and expected developmental change?", "Which intervention constraints can be stated at the epidermis level, and which require organism-, disease- or procedure-specific models?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 4, "layers": 8, "findings": 8, "questions": 16 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "organism", "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. 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 epidermis, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise epidermis in its organism and anatomical context, assess its condition, and identify appropriate observation or intervention constraints.", "characteristics": { "substance": "living", "origin": "natural", "agency": "autonomous", "mobility": "self-moving" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: tegument.", "1 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.", "Described in 65 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 epidermis, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "a living thing", "physicalCharacter": [ "Moves under its own power or of its own accord.", "Acts on its own behalf.", "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing." ], "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [ "observe it, measure it, record its state" ], "howItIsRecognised": [ "Recognised by diagnostic characters, and those differ by life stage - the young of many kinds are mistaken for other kinds entirely. A sighting is settled by characters, a photograph and a place, not by a name alone." ], "relatedModels": [ { "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": [ "tegument" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 65 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 1 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 epidermis from another, and a epidermis 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 epidermis, 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 epidermis, 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 epidermis 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 epidermis, 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 epidermis, 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 epidermis 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 epidermis 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 epidermis, 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 epidermis, 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 epidermis 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 epidermis from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a epidermis, 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 epidermis, 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 epidermis 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 epidermis 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 epidermis, 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 epidermis, 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 epidermis is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Anatomy, parts and life stage.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and life stages", "description": "The parts of a epidermis and the stages it passes through.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a epidermis, and in what units or vocabulary?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "identifiers", "types and classes", "values with units", "explicit unknowns" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q02", "text": "Who or what asserted this about the composition of a epidermis, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "parts-and-materials-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the composition of a epidermis is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-integrity", "name": "Condition and integrity", "description": "Wear, damage, health and the difference between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "condition-assessment", "name": "Condition, damage and health", "description": "How the condition of a epidermis is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a epidermis, 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 epidermis, 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 epidermis 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 epidermis is, how it got there and where it may go (self-moving).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a epidermis is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a epidermis, 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 epidermis, 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 epidermis 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 epidermis moves on its own.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a epidermis, 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 epidermis, 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 epidermis 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 epidermis passes through and the events that move it between them.", "rationale": "Most decisions about a thing depend on what state it is in now, which is a claim with a time on it, not a property.", "layers": [ { "id": "lifecycle-stages", "name": "Lifecycle stages", "description": "From coming into existence to ceasing to be one of these.", "findings": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions", "name": "Stages and transitions", 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