{ "model": { "rank": 2432, "code": "thing-q46452", "model_id": "vr.tr.opium", "name": "opium", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise material represented as opium, assess its identity and condition, and determine which handling or disposition actions have sufficient evidence and authority.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q46452/", "tier": 2, "score": 106, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [], "aliasCount": 0, "merged": 0, "knownIn": 106, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": "vr.tr.opium", "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q46452", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q46452", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T09:16:45Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "missingProviders": [ "Grok" ], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": null, "turns": null, "seconds": 8.1, "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": 82.3, "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: 01a07b26-9de5-7e20-9348-ae57ec3c19da\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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dried form, rather than seed, straw or other plant biomass.", "Determine whether processing retained the identity of opium or produced an extract, formulation or isolated substance that belongs to a neighbouring model.", "Require appropriate analytical evidence to distinguish an opium alkaloid mixture from an isolated alkaloid or a material containing added opioids; appearance alone is insufficient.", "Check whether an opium label denotes the material itself, an ingredient in another product, or merely a trade name or fragrance description." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Material identity assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "claimed opium | evidence-supported opium | disputed | identified as another material | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Prevents a label or superficial resemblance from becoming an established identity." }, { "name": "Botanical source attribution", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Linked source taxon or source material, attribution method and confidence; unknown permitted", "why_it_matters": "Connects the latex-origin claim to evidence without treating botanical attribution as automatically proven." }, { "name": "Material form", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Fresh latex | partially dried mass | dried mass | powder | other documented form | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Supports recognition and interpretation of sampling, moisture and physical-condition observations." }, { "name": "Processing identity", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Collected latex | dried material | documented processed opium | suspected extract or formulation | unresolved", "why_it_matters": "Identifies when processing may have moved the material outside this model." }, { "name": "Material quantity", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "g or kg, with measurement date and explicit inclusion or exclusion of packaging", "why_it_matters": "Establishes the quantity assessed and supports custody reconciliation." }, { "name": "Moisture or water content", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "% by mass, with analytical method and distinction between water determination and loss on drying", "why_it_matters": "Helps interpret texture, mass changes and concentration results." }, { "name": "Alkaloid profile", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Analyte-specific mg/g or % by mass, including morphine and other measured alkaloids, with reporting basis and uncertainty", "why_it_matters": "Characterises the actual material without assuming a standard composition." }, { "name": "Foreign constituents", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Identified constituent, measured concentration or qualified detection result, method and detection limit", "why_it_matters": "Separates evidence of fillers, contaminants or added substances from unsupported adulteration claims." }, { "name": "Physical and packaging condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Dated observations of consistency, visible foreign growth, leakage, exposed residue and enclosure integrity", "why_it_matters": "Supports condition assessment while keeping visual observations distinct from laboratory conclusions." }, { "name": "Sample-to-lot relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Linked parent lot, sampling location, sampling date and representativeness assessment", "why_it_matters": "Limits how far a sample result can be applied to a potentially heterogeneous mass." }, { "name": "Action authorisation", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Proposed action linked to responsible actor, jurisdiction, date and supporting authority; unresolved permitted", "why_it_matters": "Prevents identity or possession alone from being treated as permission to handle, transfer or dispose of the material." } ], "affordances": [ "Assess whether a labelled or suspected material fits the opium identity boundary and record unresolved alternatives.", "Compare linked analytical results while accounting for moisture basis, sampling differences and uncertainty.", "Flag suspected substitution, added substances, contamination or unexplained lot variation for qualified review.", "Record containment and condition observations and refer unresolved handling needs to an authorised specialist.", "Reconcile quantities and custody events for the identified material.", "Evaluate whether evidence supports a proposed examination, transfer, retention or disposal action." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "opium-identity-boundary", "name": "Opium identity and boundary", "description": "Establishes what the material is claimed to be and whether it belongs to the opium concept.", "rationale": "Opium can be confused with other poppy materials, processed preparations and isolated opioids, each requiring a different model.", "layers": [ { "id": "latex-material-identity", "name": "Latex material identity", "description": "Connects the material to evidence for a poppy-latex origin.", "findings": [ { "id": "basis-for-opium-identification", "name": "Basis for opium identification", "description": "Records the identity claim, its evidential basis and competing identifications.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence establishes that this material is poppy-derived latex material rather than another plant product or a substitute?", "kind": "definition", "id": "basis-for-opium-identification-q01" }, { "text": "Who assigned the opium identity, using which observations, documents or analytical results?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "basis-for-opium-identification-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "processing-and-product-boundaries", "name": "Processing and product boundaries", "description": "Distinguishes opium material from products derived from or merely named after it.", "findings": [ { "id": "retained-or-changed-material-identity", "name": "Retained or changed material identity", "description": "Records processing and additions relevant to whether this model still applies.", "questions": [ { "text": "What drying, grinding, mixing or other processing is documented for this material?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "retained-or-changed-material-identity-q01" }, { "text": "Does the applicable identity convention still classify the result as opium, or should it be linked to an extract, formulation or isolated-substance model?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "retained-or-changed-material-identity-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "alkaloid-composition-and-authenticity", "name": "Alkaloid composition and authenticity", "description": "Characterises measured constituents and evidence of substitution or addition.", "rationale": "An opium identity does not establish the composition of a particular lot or justify interpreting all opioid detections as native constituents.", "layers": [ { "id": "measured-alkaloid-profile", "name": "Measured alkaloid profile", "description": "Captures analyte-specific results with the context needed to interpret them.", "findings": [ { "id": "quantified-alkaloids-and-reporting-basis", "name": "Quantified alkaloids and reporting basis", "description": "Keeps measured composition separate from assumed typical composition.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which alkaloids were measured, at what concentrations, by which method and with what uncertainty?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "quantified-alkaloids-and-reporting-basis-q01" }, { "text": "Are results reported for the material as received or on a dry-mass basis, and is the moisture information sufficient for comparison?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "quantified-alkaloids-and-reporting-basis-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "foreign-material-and-substitution", "name": "Foreign material and substitution", "description": "Assesses detected constituents that may challenge authenticity or condition.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-for-additions-or-contamination", "name": "Evidence for additions or contamination", "description": "Distinguishes a detected foreign constituent from an inference about its origin or intent.", "questions": [ { "text": "What tests detected or investigated fillers, contaminants, substituted material or added pharmacologically active substances?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "evidence-for-additions-or-contamination-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes deliberate addition from incidental contamination, natural variation or analytical uncertainty?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "evidence-for-additions-or-contamination-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "physical-state-and-preservation", "name": "Physical state and preservation", "description": "Records the condition of the latex-derived material and its enclosure over time.", "rationale": "Moisture, consistency and packaging affect how an opium quantity is assessed and whether changes need investigation.", "layers": [ { "id": "moisture-consistency-and-mass", "name": "Moisture, consistency and mass", "description": "Relates dated physical observations to measurements without assuming 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evidence indicates foreign growth, chemical change, leakage, exposed residue or compromised packaging?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "condition-concerns-and-response-q01" }, { "text": "Which condition concerns require qualified assessment or an authorised containment response before further handling?", "kind": "action", "id": "condition-concerns-and-response-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "lot-provenance-and-sample-confidence", "name": "Lot provenance and sample confidence", "description": "Connects origin claims, material history and analytical samples to the quantity being assessed.", "rationale": "Results from a fragment of an opium mass cannot automatically establish the origin, composition or condition of the entire lot.", "layers": [ { "id": "origin-and-material-history", "name": "Origin and material history", "description": "Separates documented origin and transformations from unverified attribution.", "findings": [ { "id": "supported-origin-and-lot-continuity", "name": "Supported 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apply to different intended uses, and how should the model represent their absence?", "Which maintained jurisdiction-specific sources should govern classification and action authority when opium identity or processing status is disputed?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 10, "findings": 10, "questions": 20 } }, "draft": { "generator": "vr.draft.v3", "status": "draft-generated", "researched": false, "archetype": "device, machine or tool", "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 opium, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.", "whatItIs": "Enable an AI agent to recognise material represented as opium, assess its identity and condition, and determine which handling or disposition actions have sufficient evidence and authority.", "characteristics": { "substance": "material", "origin": "manufactured", "agency": "inert", "mobility": "varies" }, "whatYouCanDoWithIt": [ "observed and measured" ], "distinguishingFeatures": [ "Described in 106 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 opium, and on what evidence are they told apart?" ], "whatItIsMadeOf": "matter you can touch", "physicalCharacter": [ "Mobility varies between examples.", "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": [ "Recognised by form, by the arrangement of its controls, and by markings - a plate, a model number, a certification mark. Form alone rarely separates two models that do very different things." ], "relatedModels": [], "standing": "Described in 106 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one opium from another, and a opium 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 opium, 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 opium, 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 opium 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 opium, 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 opium, 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 opium 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 opium 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 opium, 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 opium, 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 opium 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 opium from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a opium, 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 opium, 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 opium 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 opium 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 opium, 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 opium, 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 opium 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 opium is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a opium, 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 opium, 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 opium 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.", 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"description": "Where a opium 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 opium is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a opium, 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 opium, 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 opium 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 opium 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 opium, 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 opium, 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 opium 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 opium 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 opium between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a opium, 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 opium, 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 opium 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 opium, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a opium 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 opium, 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 opium, 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 opium 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 opium 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 opium 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 opium, 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 opium 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 opium 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 opium 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 opium 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 opium 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 opium, 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 opium 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 opium and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a opium, 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 opium, 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 opium 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 opium is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a opium, 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 opium, 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 opium 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 } } } }