{ "model": { "rank": 1994, "code": "thing-q42861", "model_id": "vr.tr.kite", "name": "kite", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a tethered aerodynamic kite, assess its readiness and suitability for a proposed flight, and identify supported actions and unresolved constraints.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q42861/", "tier": 2, "score": 119, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "military kite", "wau", "manu tukutuku", "bird scarer kite", "Delta kite", "human-lifting kite", "sport kite", "Diều sáo", "Kytoon", "box kite", "Bermuda kite", "bowed kite", "fighter kite", "power kite", "Leading edge inflatable kite", "Sled kite", "Helikite", "Rokkaku dako", "Volantín", "Arc kite", "foil kite", "Soft single skin kite", "Supported leading edge" ], "aliasCount": 23, "merged": 23, "knownIn": 119, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.kite", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q42861", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42861", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T09:15:54Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "missingProviders": [ "Grok" ], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": null, "turns": null, "seconds": 14.5, "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": 90.2, "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: 01a07b25-b805-73e3-830b-7d89f4c61680\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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needed to assess its use.", "in_scope": [ "Identification of the object as a tethered aerodynamic kite and its intended role", "Lifting-surface geometry, construction and means of retaining flight shape", "Bridle arrangement, tow points and connections to flying lines", "Condition, configuration and evidence of flight readiness", "Compatibility with control equipment, operating conditions and proposed loads" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Birds called kites and their biological characteristics", "Independent models of flying lines, reels, control bars and harnesses", "Operator competence, training and personal protective equipment", "Weather systems, airspace rules and flying-site management", "Boards, vehicles, instruments or other equipment carried or pulled by the kite" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Its intended flight depends on aerodynamic force from relative airflow while a tether constrains its motion; establish this from construction or operating documentation rather than appearance alone.", "It has a tow point or bridle that transfers tether force into the lifting assembly; a loose sheet or decorative windsock does not establish this functional arrangement.", "Distinguish it from a tethered balloon by identifying whether aerodynamic lift or buoyancy is intended to support flight.", "Distinguish it from a free-flying glider or powered aircraft by checking whether tethered operation is fundamental to its intended flight mode.", "Distinguish flight-capable examples from kite-shaped decorations through evidence of suitable structure, attachments and intended operation." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Intended flight role", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "display | recreation | precision control | traction | lifting | other | unknown; multiple values allowed", "why_it_matters": "The role determines which control, loading and recovery questions must be resolved." }, { "name": "Shape-support construction", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "framed | airflow-inflated | pressure-inflated | hybrid | other | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Different constructions require different assembly and condition checks." }, { "name": "Deployed span", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "m, with deployed configuration and measurement method", "why_it_matters": "Span helps identify the kite and assess handling and clearance needs." }, { "name": "Lifting-surface area", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "m², explicitly identifying flat or projected area and the measurement method", "why_it_matters": "Area supports comparisons and equipment matching only when the measurement basis is known." }, { "name": "Flight-ready mass", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "kg, with included components identified", "why_it_matters": "Mass helps assess whether the recorded configuration matches the intended flight setup." }, { "name": "Flying-line control arrangement", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "single-line | dual-line | multi-line | other | unknown, with line count and functions recorded", "why_it_matters": "Line arrangement determines how the kite is restrained, steered and brought down." }, { "name": "Bridle and tow-point configuration", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "recorded attachment map, adjustment settings and verification status", "why_it_matters": "A changed or incorrectly connected bridle can change flight behaviour." }, { "name": "Structural and surface condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "observed defects by component, inspection date and unresolved assessment", "why_it_matters": "Damage to the lifting surface, supports or attachments may prevent the kite from carrying flight loads." }, { "name": "Documented operating wind range", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "m/s, with source, configuration, intended role and gust qualifications; unknown permitted", "why_it_matters": "A sourced range supports suitability assessment without treating an inferred range as an operating limit." }, { "name": "Compatible flight equipment", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "links to line sets, controls and restraint equipment, with compatibility evidence", "why_it_matters": "Physical connection alone does not establish that an equipment combination is suitable." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify the kite and compare its observed construction with a documented configuration.", "Assemble, fold or pack it using instructions appropriate to its supports and lifting surface.", "Inspect the surface, supports, bridle and attachment points and flag unresolved defects.", "Connect compatible flying equipment and verify the bridle and line arrangement.", "Assess a proposed launch, flight or recovery against documented limits and observed conditions.", "Adjust, repair or replace supported components and record the checks needed before further flight." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "kite-identity-and-flight-role", "name": "Kite identity and flight role", "description": "Establishes what kind of kite is present and which intended flight role its configuration supports.", "rationale": "Similar-looking kites can require different controls, equipment and handling; the registry name alone does not establish intended use.", "layers": [ { "id": "tethered-flight-identity", "name": "Tethered flight identity", "description": "Tests whether the object belongs within the aerodynamic kite boundary.", "findings": [ { "id": "intended-lift-and-restraint", "name": "Intended lift and restraint", "description": "Record the evidence that the object is designed to fly through aerodynamic loading while restrained by a tether.", "questions": [ { "text": "What construction features or documentation identify this object as a flight-capable tethered kite?", "kind": "definition", "id": "intended-lift-and-restraint-q01" }, { "text": "Does buoyancy, onboard propulsion or an intended free-flight mode require a neighbouring or additional model?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "intended-lift-and-restraint-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "role-and-variant", "name": "Role and variant", "description": "Connects the physical example to its intended use and any identifiable design variant.", "findings": [ { "id": "documented-kite-configuration", "name": "Documented kite configuration", "description": "Record the maker or builder, design, size variant and intended flight role where evidence exists.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which markings, plans or instructions identify this kite's design and size variant?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-kite-configuration-q01" }, { "text": "Which uses are supported by that evidence, and which proposed uses remain unverified?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "documented-kite-configuration-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "lifting-surface-and-shape", "name": "Lifting surface and shape", "description": "Describes the surface and construction that establish the kite's deployed aerodynamic form.", "rationale": "Recognising missing parts, incorrect assembly or deformation requires a kite-specific account of how flight shape is obtained.", "layers": [ { "id": "deployed-geometry", "name": "Deployed geometry", "description": "Records the kite's measurable form in a stated flight configuration.", "findings": [ { "id": "surface-dimensions-and-layout", "name": "Surface dimensions and layout", "description": "Record span, area and the arrangement of surfaces, cells or openings using explicit measurement conventions.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the deployed span and surface area, and does the area describe flat material or projected flight shape?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "surface-dimensions-and-layout-q01" }, { "text": "Which surfaces, openings and symmetry relationships define the expected deployed form for this design?", "kind": "definition", "id": "surface-dimensions-and-layout-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "shape-support-and-assembly", "name": "Shape support and assembly", "description": "Identifies how spars, tension, airflow or inflation hold the kite in its intended form.", "findings": [ { "id": "flight-shape-prerequisites", "name": "Flight-shape prerequisites", "description": "Record the components and assembly conditions needed to obtain the documented flight shape.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which supports, joints, tension settings, cells or inflatable sections must be present and correctly configured?", "kind": "definition", "id": "flight-shape-prerequisites-q01" }, { "text": "What documented assembly or inflation checks establish that this kite has reached its intended flight shape?", "kind": "action", "id": "flight-shape-prerequisites-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "bridle-and-flight-control", "name": "Bridle and flight control", "description": "Records how tether forces reach the kite and how line inputs affect its supported operation.", "rationale": "Tow-point selection, bridle routing and control connections are central to kite behaviour and cannot be represented by a 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"control-equipment-matching", "name": "Control equipment matching", "description": "Record line functions and evidence that the proposed external control equipment matches this kite configuration.", "questions": [ { "text": "What function does each flying-line connection serve, and how is its correct counterpart identified?", "kind": "definition", "id": "control-equipment-matching-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence supports the proposed line set and controls, including any recovery or release function?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "control-equipment-matching-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "kite-condition-and-readiness", "name": "Kite condition and readiness", "description": "Assesses whether the observed kite can maintain its shape and transfer tether loads in its current configuration.", "rationale": "A kite can appear complete while defects in fabric, supports or bridle attachments leave its flight readiness unresolved.", "layers": [ { "id": "surface-and-support-integrity", "name": "Surface and support integrity", "description": "Records defects in the components that form and support the lifting surface.", "findings": [ { "id": "shape-affecting-damage", "name": "Shape-affecting damage", "description": "Record tears, seam separation, distorted supports or inflation problems where applicable, with their location and extent.", "questions": [ { "text": "What damage or deformation is visible in the lifting surface and its supporting components?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "shape-affecting-damage-q01" }, { "text": "Which documented criteria determine whether these observations require repair or further assessment before flight?", "kind": "action", "id": "shape-affecting-damage-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "attachment-integrity-and-repairs", "name": "Attachment integrity and repairs", "description": "Examines tether-load transfer points and changes that could alter the verified configuration.", "findings": [ { "id": "bridle-condition-and-configuration-changes", "name": "Bridle condition and configuration changes", "description": "Record wear at bridle and tow-point components, repairs, replacements and departures from the reference setup.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which bridle branches, knots, connectors or reinforced attachment areas show wear, movement or damage?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "bridle-condition-and-configuration-changes-q01" }, { "text": "What repairs or substitutions have been made, and what evidence supports returning the changed kite to flight?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bridle-condition-and-configuration-changes-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "flight-suitability-and-recovery", "name": "Flight suitability and recovery", "description": "Relates the configured kite to a proposed operating situation and the means of ending flight.", "rationale": "Readiness depends on the combination of kite configuration, wind, intended loading and supported recovery method.", "layers": [ { "id": "operating-envelope", "name": "Operating 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Form alone rarely separates two models that do very different things." ], "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": [ "military kite", "wau", "manu tukutuku", "bird scarer kite", "Delta kite", "human-lifting kite", "sport kite", "Diều sáo", "Kytoon", "box kite", "Bermuda kite", "bowed kite" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 119 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 23 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 kite from another, and a kite 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 kite, 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 kite, 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 kite 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 kite, 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 kite, 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 kite 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 kite 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 kite, 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 kite, 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 kite 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 kite from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a kite, 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 kite, 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 kite 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 kite 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 kite, 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 kite, 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 kite is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "material-and-composition", "name": "Material and composition", "description": "Materials, parts and how they are put together.", "findings": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials", "name": "Parts and materials", "description": "What a kite is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a kite, 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 kite, 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 kite 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 kite is judged and by whom.", "questions": [ { "id": "condition-assessment-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the condition of a kite, 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 kite, 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 kite 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 kite is, how it got there and where it may go (varies).", "rationale": "A thing that can move needs its position recorded with a time, or every later claim about it is about a place it has left.", "layers": [ { "id": "location-and-placement", "name": "Location and placement", "description": "Position, containment and the reference frame the position is given in.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-and-frame", "name": "Position, container and reference frame", "description": "Where a kite is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a kite, 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 kite, 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 kite 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 kite is carried, installed or relocated.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-events", "name": "Movement events and constraints", "description": "What counts as a movement, what records it and what limits it.", "questions": [ { "id": "movement-events-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the movement of a kite, 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 kite, 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 kite 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 kite 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 kite between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a kite, 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 kite, 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 kite 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 kite, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a kite 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 kite, 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 kite, 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 kite is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "function-and-principle", "name": "Function and operating principle", "description": "What kite is for and how it achieves it.", "rationale": "Two devices with the same name can work on different principles, and the principle is what predicts failure and constrains use.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-function", "name": "Intended function", "description": "The job it does, and the jobs it is used for anyway.", "findings": [ { "id": "function-record", "name": "Function, principle and variants", "description": "What it does, how, and which variants do it differently.", "questions": [ { "id": "function-record-q01", "text": "What function does kite perform, on what operating principle, and which variants differ in that principle?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "function-record-q02", "text": "What use falls outside the intended function but happens in practice?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "capacity-and-rating", "name": "Capacity and rating", "description": "The numbers that say what it can do and where it stops.", "findings": [ { "id": "ratings", "name": "Ratings and their conditions", "description": "Rated capacity, power, throughput and the conditions each assumes.", "questions": [ { "id": "ratings-q01", "text": "What ratings characterise kite, in what units, and under what stated conditions?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "ratings-q02", "text": "What happens beyond the rating - degradation, refusal, damage - and how is that detected?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "operation-and-state", "name": "Operation, controls and state", "description": "How kite is operated and what state it is in right now.", "rationale": "An agent acting on a device needs its current state and the controls that change it, not just its specification.", "layers": [ { "id": "controls-and-modes", "name": "Controls and modes", "description": "What can be set, what that changes, and what is interlocked.", "findings": [ { "id": "control-surface", "name": "Control surface and interlocks", "description": "The settings available and the conditions that block them.", "questions": [ { "id": "control-surface-q01", "text": "What controls and modes does kite have, and what does each change?", "kind": "definition" }, { "id": "control-surface-q02", "text": "Which actions are interlocked or forbidden in which state, and what must be true before acting?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "condition-and-maintenance", "name": "Condition and maintenance", "description": "Wear, service intervals, consumables and the line between working and broken.", "findings": [ { "id": "service-record", "name": "Condition, service and consumables", "description": "What is consumed, what is serviced, and how condition is judged.", "questions": [ { "id": "service-record-q01", "text": "What consumables and service does kite need, at what interval, and on whose authority?", "kind": "measurement" }, { "id": "service-record-q02", "text": "What evidence separates a unit that is working from one that is out of service?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "kind-model-unit", "name": "Kind, model and unit", "description": "Whether a claim about kite is about the kind, a product line, or one physical unit.", "rationale": "This is the boundary most often got wrong for made things, and getting it wrong mixes a catalogue entry with the machine in the yard.", "layers": [ { "id": "level-of-reference", "name": "Level of reference", "description": "The three levels and what belongs at each.", "findings": [ { "id": "level-rules", "name": "What belongs to kind, model and unit", "description": "Which properties are shared by all of them and which are not.", "questions": [ { "id": "level-rules-q01", "text": "Which facts about kite hold for every one of them, which for a model, and which only for one unit?", "kind": "boundary" }, { "id": "level-rules-q02", "text": "What identifies an individual unit, and what should an agent do when it has only the kind?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "standards-and-conformity", "name": "Standards and conformity", "description": "The standards a working example must meet and who attests it.", "findings": [ { "id": "conformity", "name": "Standards, marks and attestation", "description": "Which standard applies, who certifies, and what the mark means.", "questions": [ { "id": "conformity-q01", "text": "Which standards govern kite, issued by whom, and what does conformity actually assert?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "id": "conformity-q02", "text": "What may an agent conclude from a certification mark, and what may it not?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "provenance-and-evidence", "name": "Provenance, evidence and time", "description": "Where every claim about a kite 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 kite and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a kite, 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 kite, 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 kite 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 kite is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a kite, 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 kite, 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 kite is known, and what must it refuse?", "kind": "action", "answer_data": [ "permitted actions", "preconditions", "refusals", "escalation" ] } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "statistics": { "bundles": 8, "layers": 17, "findings": 19, "questions": 51 } } } }