{ "model": { "rank": 1894, "code": "thing-q9618", "model_id": "vr.tr.pancreas", "name": "pancreas", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a pancreas, distinguish its structural and functional states, and identify what assessment or intervention may be appropriate given the evidence and authority available.", "family": "Thing Registry", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "status": "research-draft", "kind": "thing", "plane": "PHY", "domain": "PHY.OBJ", "industry": "", "version": "", "url": "/models/thing/q9618/", "tier": 2, "score": 123, "payload": { "layer": "wikidata", "aliases": [ "human pancreas" ], "aliasCount": 1, "merged": 1, "knownIn": 123, "facets": null, "markers": [], "lexicalClass": "", "senseRank": null, "alsoRegisteredAs": null, "source": { "dataset": "wikidata", "item": "Q9618", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9618", "license": "CC0 1.0" } }, "research": { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-06T22:03:48Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "missingProviders": [ "Grok" ], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": null, "turns": null, "seconds": 2.4, "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": 61.7, "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: 01a078be-d3bc-7403-be84-e277f8dbf800\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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anatomical variants and partial or transplanted organs.", "in_scope": [ "Pancreatic identity, anatomical regions, variants and remaining organ extent", "Pancreatic ducts and their connections to digestive drainage pathways", "Exocrine secretion and evidence of effective digestive enzyme delivery", "Endocrine tissue function and evidence of pancreatic hormone secretion", "Local tissue changes, lesions and pancreatic complications", "Pancreas-specific assessment, preservation and intervention constraints" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Whole-person diagnosis, treatment planning and consent", "Systemic glucose regulation and diabetes management beyond pancreatic contribution", "Liver, gallbladder and extra-pancreatic biliary tract structure and disease", "Duodenal and intestinal function beyond their interface with pancreatic drainage", "Detailed classification and staging of pancreatic tumours as disease entities", "Procedural equipment, surgical technique and transplant allocation systems" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "A typical native pancreas has a head associated with the duodenum and a body and tail extending toward the spleen; location alone is insufficient for ectopic tissue or a transplant.", "Pancreatic tissue combines exocrine acinar and ductal components with endocrine islets; an individual sample may not capture all components.", "Pancreatic ducts carry exocrine secretions toward the duodenum, distinguishing the organ from adjacent lymph nodes, spleen and adrenal tissue.", "The pancreas produces digestive secretions and endocrine hormones, whereas the gallbladder stores bile; shared drainage relationships do not make them the same organ.", "A mass near the pancreas requires evidence of pancreatic origin or continuity before it is treated as part of the organ." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Host and organ context", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Host organism; native organ, graft, remnant or isolated specimen", "why_it_matters": "Connects observations to the correct organ and determines which anatomical and functional expectations apply." }, { "name": "Anatomical extent", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Head, uncinate process, neck, body and tail present, absent, altered or uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes a complete organ from congenital variation, resection or incomplete observation." }, { "name": "Regional dimensions", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Millimetres or millilitres, with region, imaging method and observation date", "why_it_matters": "Supports comparison over time without assuming one universal normal size." }, { "name": "Duct configuration and patency", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed duct course and connections; patent, narrowed, obstructed, disrupted or uncertain; diameter in millimetres", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether pancreatic secretions have an intact drainage route." }, { "name": "Exocrine capacity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Preserved, impaired, unassessed or indeterminate, with supporting test and context", "why_it_matters": "Separates digestive secretory capacity from appearance and endocrine function." }, { "name": "Endocrine secretory capacity", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Evidence of preserved, reduced or inappropriate secretion, or indeterminate status, by hormone and test context", "why_it_matters": "Avoids treating a systemic glucose result as a direct measurement of the entire pancreas." }, { "name": "Parenchymal condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed oedema, atrophy, fibrosis, fatty replacement, calcification, necrosis or no detected abnormality", "why_it_matters": "Records tissue changes that may affect function, viability or intervention." }, { "name": "Focal abnormality", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Linked lesion with region, size, solid or cystic appearance, duct relationship and evidential status", "why_it_matters": "Locates abnormalities without making an imaging description equivalent to a confirmed diagnosis." }, { "name": "Perfusion and vascular relationships", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Observed perfusion and relationships to named vessels; preserved, compromised or uncertain", "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment of tissue viability and constraints on sampling or intervention." } ], "affordances": [ "Map pancreatic regions, ducts and neighbouring structures from documented observations.", "Compare serial imaging and functional evidence while preserving method and timing differences.", "Identify missing evidence needed to distinguish exocrine failure, endocrine dysfunction and structural disease.", "Flag documented duct obstruction, tissue compromise or other concerning findings for qualified clinical review.", "Assess whether proposed sampling, drainage, resection or graft monitoring has sufficient anatomical evidence and clinical authorization." ] }, "sources": [], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "pancreatic-identity-and-anatomy", "name": "Pancreatic identity and anatomy", "description": "Establishes which pancreas or pancreatic tissue is being described and its anatomical extent.", "rationale": "Native organs, remnants, grafts and ectopic tissue require different expectations for recognition and boundaries.", "layers": [ { "id": "organ-context", "name": "Organ context", "description": "Connects pancreatic identity to the host and acquisition or surgical history.", "findings": [ { "id": "pancreatic-identity", "name": "Pancreatic identity", "description": "Records the evidence that the observed structure is pancreatic tissue and identifies its organ context.", "questions": [ { "text": "What anatomical, operative or histological evidence establishes that this structure is pancreas?", "kind": "definition", "id": "pancreatic-identity-q01" }, { "text": "Is this a native pancreas, graft, postoperative remnant or isolated specimen, and which record establishes that context?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "pancreatic-identity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "regional-extent", "name": "Regional extent", "description": "Maps pancreatic regions and variations without assuming typical anatomy.", "findings": [ { "id": "pancreatic-region-map", "name": "Pancreatic region map", "description": "Identifies present, altered, absent and unobserved regions and their neighbouring structures.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which pancreatic regions are present, resected, congenitally variant or not adequately visualised?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "pancreatic-region-map-q01" }, { "text": "What are the measured regional dimensions, and which modality and date produced them?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "pancreatic-region-map-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "exocrine-production-and-drainage", "name": "Exocrine production and drainage", "description": "Separates pancreatic digestive secretion from its delivery through the duct system.", "rationale": "Secretory impairment and blocked or disrupted drainage can produce different states and require different assessments.", "layers": [ { "id": "duct-system", "name": "Duct system", "description": "Describes pancreatic duct anatomy and the continuity of drainage.", "findings": [ { "id": "duct-continuity-and-outflow", "name": "Duct continuity and outflow", "description": "Records duct configuration, calibre, narrowing, obstruction and leakage evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "What main and accessory duct configuration and drainage connections are demonstrated?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "duct-continuity-and-outflow-q01" }, { "text": "Where are duct dilatation, narrowing, obstruction or disruption observed, and how were they established?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "duct-continuity-and-outflow-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "digestive-secretory-capacity", "name": "Digestive secretory capacity", "description": "Assesses evidence that pancreatic exocrine output supports digestion.", "findings": [ { "id": "exocrine-function-evidence", "name": "Exocrine function evidence", "description": "Distinguishes demonstrated exocrine impairment from symptoms or structural changes alone.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which tests support the assessment of exocrine function, with what results, units and specimen conditions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "exocrine-function-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence separates reduced pancreatic secretion from impaired delivery or a non-pancreatic cause of maldigestion?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "exocrine-function-evidence-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "endocrine-secretory-function", "name": "Endocrine secretory function", "description": "Represents pancreatic hormone secretion and the limits of attributing systemic findings to the organ.", "rationale": "Endocrine and exocrine function can differ, and glucose disturbance alone does not establish pancreatic secretory failure.", "layers": [ { "id": "hormone-output", "name": "Hormone output", "description": "Records hormone-specific evidence under interpretable sampling conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "endocrine-capacity-evidence", "name": "Endocrine capacity evidence", "description": "Captures evidence of deficient, preserved or inappropriate pancreatic endocrine secretion.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which pancreatic hormone or secretion proxy was assessed, and what were the result, units and reference context?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "endocrine-capacity-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "What concurrent glucose level, fasting or stimulation state, medication exposure and relevant clearance factors affect interpretation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "endocrine-capacity-evidence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "pancreatic-attribution", "name": "Pancreatic attribution", "description": "Connects endocrine observations to pancreatic tissue while retaining alternative explanations.", "findings": [ { "id": "endocrine-source-and-extent", "name": "Endocrine source and extent", "description": "Distinguishes organ-level loss of capacity from focal secretion and systemic influences.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence attributes the endocrine finding to pancreatic tissue rather than systemic demand, medication or altered clearance?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "endocrine-source-and-extent-q01" }, { "text": "Is the finding linked to tissue loss, a focal pancreatic lesion or an unresolved source?", "kind": "definition", "id": "endocrine-source-and-extent-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "pancreatic-tissue-and-lesions", "name": "Pancreatic tissue and lesions", "description": "Describes diffuse tissue changes, focal abnormalities and their evolution.", "rationale": "Pancreatic state requires explicit separation of observed morphology, inferred disease and confirmed pathology.", "layers": [ { "id": "diffuse-tissue-condition", "name": "Diffuse tissue condition", "description": "Records regional or widespread changes in pancreatic parenchyma.", "findings": [ { "id": "parenchymal-change", "name": "Parenchymal 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relate to pancreatic ducts and neighbouring structures?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "lesion-origin-and-character-q01" }, { "text": "What are its size, location, solid or cystic features and interval changes, and is any diagnostic classification supported by tissue sampling?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "lesion-origin-and-character-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "pancreatic-intervention-constraints", "name": "Pancreatic intervention constraints", "description": "Records organ-specific anatomy, prior alterations and functional consequences relevant to proposed actions.", "rationale": "Sampling, drainage and resection depend on duct and vascular relationships and may affect digestive and endocrine capacity.", "layers": [ { "id": "access-and-preservation", "name": "Access and preservation", "description": "Captures anatomy and tissue status that constrain access and preservation.", "findings": [ { "id": "duct-and-vessel-exposure", "name": "Duct and vessel exposure", "description": "Identifies pancreatic ducts, vascular relationships and viable tissue relevant to an intended intervention.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which ducts, vessels and adjacent organs lie within or near the proposed intervention area?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "duct-and-vessel-exposure-q01" }, { "text": "What additional mapping or viability assessment does the responsible clinician require before sampling, drainage or resection?", "kind": "action", "id": "duct-and-vessel-exposure-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "altered-pancreas-follow-up", "name": "Altered pancreas follow-up", "description": "Connects surgical or transplant anatomy with drainage, tissue viability and remaining function.", "findings": [ { "id": "post-intervention-pancreatic-state", "name": "Post-intervention pancreatic state", "description": "Records how an intervention changed pancreatic extent, connections and monitoring needs.", "questions": [ { "text": "What pancreatic tissue and drainage connections remain or were reconstructed, according to the operative record?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "post-intervention-pancreatic-state-q01" }, { "text": "Which clinician-defined observations are required to assess leakage, obstruction, perfusion and remaining exocrine or endocrine function?", "kind": "action", "id": "post-intervention-pancreatic-state-q02" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend a human-specific pancreas model or a species-general model requiring distinct anatomical and physiological profiles?", "Should ectopic pancreatic tissue and isolated islet preparations be represented as instances, parts or related entities under the registry's granularity rules?", "Which measurements and reference frameworks are sufficiently validated across age, body size, imaging modality and postoperative anatomy?", "What evidence thresholds should distinguish descriptive pancreatic observations from confirmed functional impairment or disease attribution?", "Which assessment and 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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. 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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": [ "human pancreas" ] } ], "standing": "Described in 123 Wikipedia languages, which measures how widely it is written about rather than how important or how common it is. 1 finer distinctions are held inside this entry as names rather than as separate models.", "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "identity-and-classification", "name": "Identity, naming and classification", "description": "How an agent tells one pancreas from another, and a pancreas 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 pancreas, 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 pancreas, 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 pancreas 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 pancreas, 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 pancreas, 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 pancreas 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 pancreas 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 pancreas, 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 pancreas, 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 pancreas 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 pancreas from the things most often confused with it.", "questions": [ { "id": "distinguishing-features-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a pancreas, 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 pancreas, 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 pancreas 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 pancreas 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 pancreas, 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 pancreas, 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 pancreas 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 pancreas is built from and which parts are replaceable.", "questions": [ { "id": "parts-and-materials-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the composition of a pancreas, 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 pancreas, 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 pancreas 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 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"place-and-movement", "name": "Place and movement", "description": "Where a pancreas 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 pancreas is, and what that position is measured against.", "questions": [ { "id": "position-and-frame-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the location of a pancreas, 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 pancreas, 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 pancreas 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 pancreas 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 pancreas, 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 pancreas, 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 pancreas 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 pancreas 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 pancreas between them.", "questions": [ { "id": "stages-and-transitions-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a pancreas, 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 pancreas, 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 pancreas 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 pancreas, how often and by whom.", "findings": [ { "id": "observation-record", "name": "Observation record", "description": "How an observation of a pancreas 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 pancreas, 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 pancreas, 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 pancreas 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 pancreas 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 pancreas 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 pancreas, 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 pancreas 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 pancreas 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 pancreas 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 pancreas 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 pancreas 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 pancreas, 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 pancreas 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 pancreas and how confident it is.", "questions": [ { "id": "claim-provenance-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a pancreas, 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 pancreas, 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 pancreas 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 pancreas is retired without being erased.", "questions": [ { "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01", "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a pancreas, 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 pancreas, 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 pancreas 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 } } } }