{ "model": { "rank": 1951, "code": "thing-q45922", "model_id": "vr.tr.arrow", "name": "arrow", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a physical arrow, assess its condition and compatibility, and decide whether it may be handled, maintained, stored or used with a specified bow.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q45922/", "tier": 2, "score": 120, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "dalpil", "ya", "X10" ], "aliasCount": 3, "merged": 3, "knownIn": 120, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q45922", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q45922", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T09:09:01Z", "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": 86, "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: 01a07b1f-7c97-77f3-922b-d7cf54804d7f\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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maintenance required, accepted for specified use, retired", "why_it_matters": "Connects observed condition and inspection evidence to permitted next actions." } ], "affordances": [ "Identify and document the arrow's assembled configuration", "Measure dimensions, mass and balance using stated conventions", "Inspect shaft and component integrity using applicable guidance", "Assess compatibility with a specified bow setup and intended use", "Replace or maintain components where construction and guidance permit", "Assign handling, storage, use or retirement restrictions and reassess after relevant events" ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "arrow-identity-and-boundary", "name": "Arrow identity and boundary", "description": "Establishes what the object is and whether it belongs within the registered arrow concept.", "rationale": "The registry has no definition, and pointed projectiles or representations can otherwise be classified as arrows without sufficient 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"Assembly identity", "description": "Record which parts constitute this arrow and whether missing or replaced parts affect its identification.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which shaft, front-end and rear-end components are present, absent or detached?", "kind": "definition", "id": "assembly-identity-q01" }, { "text": "Is this an identifiable incomplete arrow or a standalone component that belongs in a neighbouring model?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "assembly-identity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "shaft-and-mass-profile", "name": "Shaft and mass profile", "description": "Captures the arrow's physical configuration through explicitly defined measurements.", "rationale": "Length, shaft construction, stiffness, mass and balance affect arrow comparison and compatibility, but ambiguous conventions can make their values misleading.", "layers": [ { "id": "shaft-geometry-and-stiffness", "name": "Shaft geometry and stiffness", "description": "Records shaft construction and dimensions together with the conventions needed to interpret them.", "findings": [ { "id": "interpretable-shaft-specification", "name": "Interpretable shaft specification", "description": "Keep observed dimensions, manufacturer designations and stiffness measurements distinguishable.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the shaft material, construction, length and diameter profile, and where were the measurements taken?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "interpretable-shaft-specification-q01" }, { "text": "What source or test convention defines the recorded spine or stiffness value?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "interpretable-shaft-specification-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "assembled-mass-and-balance", "name": "Assembled mass and balance", "description": "Connects mass and balance measurements to the installed component configuration.", "findings": [ { "id": "configuration-specific-mass-profile", "name": "Configuration-specific mass profile", "description": "Record total mass and balance location for a named assembly rather than treating them as permanent shaft properties.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is the measured total mass, in which unit, and with which components installed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "configuration-specific-mass-profile-q01" }, { "text": "Where is the balance point relative to a stated datum, and does that measurement reflect the current assembly?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "configuration-specific-mass-profile-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "point-nock-and-fletching", "name": "Point, nock and fletching", "description": "Describes the arrow's front and rear interfaces and the integrity of their attachments.", "rationale": "An intact shaft does not establish that the point, string interface or fletching is suitable and secure.", "layers": [ { "id": "front-end-assembly", "name": "Front-end assembly", "description": "Records the point and any mounting components as an installed combination.", "findings": [ { "id": "point-fit-and-retention", "name": "Point fit and retention", "description": "Capture point identity, mounting method, attachment condition and configuration-specific handling requirements.", "questions": [ { "text": "What point and mounting components are installed, and what evidence supports their fit to this shaft?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "point-fit-and-retention-q01" }, { "text": "What inspection establishes whether the point assembly is secure, damaged or incomplete?", "kind": "action", "id": "point-fit-and-retention-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "rear-end-assembly", "name": "Rear-end assembly", "description": "Records the string-engagement interface and any fletching arrangement.", "findings": [ { "id": "nock-and-fletching-integrity", "name": "Nock and fletching integrity", "description": "Record rear-component type, orientation, attachment and observed defects without assuming that all arrows share one arrangement.", "questions": [ { "text": "What nock or other string interface and fletching arrangement does this arrow 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the relevant draw conditions, string interface and arrow support?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "pairing-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What applicable guidance supports the pairing, and which required arrow or bow measurements remain unknown?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "pairing-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "intended-use-fit", "name": "Intended-use fit", "description": "Connects the installed arrow configuration to a specific proposed use.", "findings": [ { "id": "use-dependent-restrictions", "name": "Use-dependent restrictions", "description": "Record whether the point and overall arrow configuration meet requirements supplied by the intended activity and target context.", "questions": [ { "text": "What use is proposed, and what requirements does it impose on this arrow's point and assembly?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "use-dependent-restrictions-q01" }, { "text": "Does the available evidence support that use, require a configuration change or leave the decision unresolved?", "kind": "action", "id": "use-dependent-restrictions-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "damage-history-and-disposition", "name": "Damage history and disposition", "description": "Connects arrow-specific damage observations, relevant events and maintenance to the next permitted action.", "rationale": "Impacts, component changes and incomplete inspections can invalidate a previous assessment of an arrow.", "layers": [ { "id": "shaft-damage-assessment", "name": "Shaft damage assessment", "description": "Records material-appropriate inspection evidence and its limits.", "findings": [ { "id": "observed-defects-and-inspection-coverage", "name": "Observed defects and inspection coverage", "description": "Locate observed shaft defects and distinguish inspected areas from unknown internal or obscured condition.", "questions": [ { "text": "What bends, cracks, splits, splinters, dents or other irregularities are observed, and where along the shaft?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "observed-defects-and-inspection-coverage-q01" }, { "text": "Which inspection method is applicable to this shaft construction, and what condition can that method leave unresolved?", "kind": "action", "id": "observed-defects-and-inspection-coverage-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "event-triggered-reassessment", "name": "Event-triggered reassessment", "description": "Tracks events that may change condition or invalidate recorded configuration and compatibility.", "findings": [ { "id": "maintenance-and-use-disposition", "name": "Maintenance and use disposition", "description": "Record relevant impacts, recovery, repairs and component changes, then assign a supported handling or use decision.", "questions": [ { "text": "What impacts, difficult extractions, storage exposures, repairs or component replacements occurred since the last assessment?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "maintenance-and-use-disposition-q01" }, { "text": "Should the arrow be inspected, maintained, stored with restrictions, 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"knowledge time" ] }, { "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03", "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a arrow 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 arrow, 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 arrow, by which method, and when was it true?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "authority", "method", "evidence", "event time", "knowledge time" ] }, { "id": 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"description": "Where a arrow 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 arrow is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a arrow, 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 arrow, 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 arrow 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 arrow 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 arrow, 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 arrow, 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 arrow 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 arrow 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 arrow between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a arrow, 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 arrow, 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 arrow 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 arrow, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a arrow 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 arrow, 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 arrow, 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 arrow 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 arrow 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 arrow 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 arrow, 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 arrow 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 arrow 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 arrow 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 arrow 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 arrow 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 arrow, 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 arrow 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 arrow and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a arrow, 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 arrow, 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 arrow 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 arrow is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a arrow, 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 arrow, 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 arrow 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 } } } }