{ "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T10:06:38Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 19.6, "error": "Reading additional input from stdin...\nOpenAI Codex v0.153.4\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: 01a09514-539e-7402-9c6f-977b4e3cd7c9\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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consent is a separate property of the act, although common usage often denotes unwanted contact.", "scope_statement": "This model owns groping as sexual touching or fondling of another person's body using the hand; it records conduct, consent, context, evidence and response needs without making nonconsent a defining requirement or treating an allegation as an established finding.", "in_scope": [ "Reported bodily contact described as groping, including contact through clothing", "The location, manner, sequence and repetition of touching", "Consent, its scope and withdrawal at the time of contact", "Circumstances affecting freedom to refuse, move away or seek assistance", "Accounts, uncertainties, immediate effects and requested responses" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Nonsexual searching or navigating by touch, pending registry sense clarification", "Sexual remarks, exposure or observation without bodily contact", "The full course of harassment or coercive control surrounding an episode", "Clinical diagnosis and treatment of injuries or psychological conditions", "Jurisdiction-specific criminal classification and adjudication", "Consensual sexual activity generally" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Establish whether bodily contact occurred; proximity, staring or sexual remarks alone do not establish a completed touching act.", "Record what supports a sexualised interpretation, such as the contact location, movement or accompanying conduct; a body location alone does not settle that interpretation.", "Distinguish deliberate touching from accidental contact using the available account and circumstances, preserving uncertainty about intent.", "Separate agreement to the particular touching from agreement to other intimacy, a relationship or previous contact.", "Resolve whether the word describes interpersonal sexual touching or the separate sense of searching by touch before applying this model." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Meaning attributed to groping", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "unwanted sexual touching | sexual touching with consent unresolved | other lexical sense | unclear", "why_it_matters": "The registry lacks a definition, and the label alone cannot establish the intended sense or consent status." }, { "name": "Contact location and clothing boundary", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "reported body region; over clothing | under clothing | direct skin contact | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Describes the contact precisely without requiring unnecessary intimate detail." }, { "name": "Contact movement", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "touching | grabbing | squeezing | rubbing | other reported movement | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes the reported conduct from an undifferentiated allegation of contact." }, { "name": "Consent at the time of contact", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "reported agreement | reported absence of agreement | reported withdrawal | disputed | unknown; scoped to each contact segment", "why_it_matters": "Consent can differ across acts and change during an episode." }, { "name": "Episode duration and repetition", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "estimated seconds or minutes; reported contact count or range; unknown permitted", "why_it_matters": "Separates a single contact from repeated touching or continuation after withdrawal." }, { "name": "Constraint on disengagement", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "reported physical obstruction | restraint | authority pressure | dependency | no constraint reported | unknown", "why_it_matters": "Explains whether moving away or expressing refusal was practicable." }, { "name": "Claim attribution", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "claim linked to affected person's account, witness account, other participant's account, recording or inference", "why_it_matters": "Keeps reported experience, observed conduct and inferred intent distinguishable." } ], "affordances": [ "Describe a reported episode using behaviour-specific language and attributed claims.", "Identify missing consent information without assuming that silence or lack of resistance establishes agreement.", "Distinguish potentially accidental contact from reported deliberate sexualised touching while retaining unresolved interpretations.", "Identify immediate needs for distance, assistance or care based on the affected person's account and preferences.", "Prepare a minimal factual record or route to an appropriate support or reporting process when requested." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Explain groping as sexual touching by hand, distinguish consensual from nonconsensual contact, and explain that nonconsensual acts may constitute sexual assault under applicable law.", "Point victims to support services, reporting routes and transport or venue safety contacts." ], "must_not": [ "Help anyone carry out nonconsensual sexual touching or evade accountability for it.", "Produce content that presents nonconsensual sexual touching as a joke, a compliment or harmless.", "Blame victims for their clothing, location or behaviour.", "Identify a named person as a perpetrator without a finding or reliable evidence." ], "requires_human": [ "Responding to a disclosure of assault, which should be passed to trained people.", "Reporting a specific person to authorities." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Nonconsensual groping violates bodily autonomy and can leave lasting fear and harm.", "Victims are often disbelieved; responses must take them seriously." ], "affected_parties": [ "People subjected to nonconsensual touching can experience harm.", "Women and girls in public spaces can be affected by unwanted sexual contact.", "Wrongly accused people can be harmed by unsupported allegations.", "Participants in consensual sexual touching retain rights to bodily autonomy and privacy." ] }, "owners": { "steward": "Nobody owns the act; participants retain bodily autonomy, and relevant authorities address alleged unlawful conduct.", "master_systems": [] }, "what_it_is_for": [ "The term is used in reports of unwanted sexual contact in public, domestic, educational and workplace settings.", "It helps describe reported conduct when assessing consent, support needs and safeguarding responses without deciding whether an allegation is established." ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "The Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, issued by the Council of Europe, requires parties to criminalize nonconsensual acts of a sexual nature with another person." ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Unwanted sexual touching can cause physical injury, fear and psychological distress.", "Repeated incidents can restrict a person's participation in work, education or public life.", "Dismissive responses or retaliation can compound harm and discourage reporting.", "Treating an allegation as a proven finding can undermine fair assessment and harm those involved." ], "facets_not_applicable": { "recognition": "Appearance alone cannot establish groping because the sexual nature of contact and absence of consent require contextual evidence." } }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q1072616: groping", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1072616", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Groping", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groping", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "meaning-and-contact", "name": "Meaning and contact", "description": "Establishes which sense of groping is intended and what bodily conduct is being described.", "rationale": "The undefined registry label risks conflating unwanted sexual touching, consensual touching and nonsexual exploration by touch.", "layers": [ { "id": "lexical-boundary", "name": "Lexical boundary", "description": "Separates the interpersonal sexual sense from other uses of the word.", "findings": [ { "id": "intended-sense", "name": "Intended sense requires confirmation", "description": "Record the speaker's use of the term and a behaviour-level description; do not infer the registry meaning from the label alone.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does groping here mean sexualised bodily touching or searching and navigating by touch?", "kind": "definition", "id": "intended-sense-q01" }, { "text": "Who applied the term, and what conduct did they use it to describe?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "intended-sense-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "contact-description", "name": "Contact description", "description": "Captures the physical act without making the label substitute for its description.", "findings": [ { "id": "bodily-contact-pattern", "name": "Bodily contact pattern", "description": "Record the reported body region, movement, clothing boundary and sequence at the minimum detail needed for the intended response.", "questions": [ { "text": "What touching, grabbing, squeezing or rubbing was reported, and where did contact occur?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "bodily-contact-pattern-q01" }, { "text": "What supports distinguishing this contact from an accidental collision or a nonsexual practical touch?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bodily-contact-pattern-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "consent-and-disengagement", "name": "Consent and disengagement", "description": "Models agreement to the particular touching and the person's ability to stop or leave it.", "rationale": "The physical movement alone cannot establish whether touching was wanted or whether participation was freely chosen.", "layers": [ { "id": "contact-specific-consent", "name": "Contact-specific consent", "description": "Associates consent information with the particular act and its timing.", "findings": [ { "id": "agreement-scope-and-change", "name": "Agreement scope and change", "description": "Separate agreement to this contact from prior intimacy, and record any reported change or withdrawal without treating missing information as agreement.", "questions": [ { "text": "What agreement or absence of agreement is reported for this particular touching?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "agreement-scope-and-change-q01" }, { "text": "Was agreement limited or withdrawn, and what contact occurred after that point?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "agreement-scope-and-change-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "freedom-to-disengage", "name": "Freedom to disengage", "description": "Records circumstances affecting the ability to choose, communicate or move away.", "findings": [ { "id": "constraints-and-responses", "name": "Constraints and responses", "description": "Record reported constraints and reactions separately; do not encode silence, stillness or absence of physical resistance as permission.", "questions": [ { "text": "Were restraint, blocked movement, authority pressure or other constraints reported?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "constraints-and-responses-q01" }, { "text": "What verbal or nonverbal responses were reported, and what remains unknown about their meaning?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "constraints-and-responses-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "episode-and-evidence", "name": "Episode and evidence", "description": "Reconstructs the touching episode while separating accounts, observations and interpretations.", "rationale": "Brief or concealed contact can leave important aspects unresolved, especially intent, exact movement and consent communication.", "layers": [ { "id": "episode-sequence", "name": "Episode sequence", "description": "Places contact, reactions and subsequent conduct in temporal order.", "findings": [ { "id": "onset-repetition-and-ending", "name": "Onset, repetition and ending", "description": "Represent individual contact segments, interruptions and continuation after objections or attempts to move away, where reported.", "questions": [ { "text": "Was the touching a single contact, sustained contact or a series of contacts, and how certain are the estimates?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "onset-repetition-and-ending-q01" }, { "text": "What happened immediately before the contact, after any objection and when the episode ended?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "onset-repetition-and-ending-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "claim-support", "name": "Claim support", "description": "Tracks the basis and limits of each material claim.", "findings": [ { "id": "accounts-and-observation-limits", "name": "Accounts and observation limits", "description": "Attribute claims about contact, consent and intent individually, preserving disagreements and what each source could actually perceive.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which details come from direct experience, witness observation, a recording or inference?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "accounts-and-observation-limits-q01" }, { "text": "Which aspects of the touching or consent communication were outside each source's view or hearing?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "accounts-and-observation-limits-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "effects-and-response", "name": "Effects and response", "description": "Connects reported effects and continuing exposure to the affected person's requested assistance.", "rationale": "An agent needs to support a response without requiring diagnostic conclusions or collecting unnecessary intimate information.", "layers": [ { "id": "immediate-needs", "name": "Immediate needs", "description": "Records present proximity, reported effects and assistance preferences.", "findings": [ { "id": "current-exposure-and-support", "name": "Current exposure and support", "description": "Keep immediate support needs distinct from determinations about the completed episode; record effects as reported and avoid requiring visible injury.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is unwanted contact continuing, or is the person concerned about renewed contact from someone still nearby?", "kind": "action", "id": "current-exposure-and-support-q01" }, { "text": "What assistance does the affected person want now, including distance, a trusted person or access to care?", "kind": "action", "id": "current-exposure-and-support-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "documentation-and-routing", "name": "Documentation and routing", "description": "Supports proportionate recording and context-specific next steps.", "findings": [ { "id": "minimal-record-and-requested-next-step", "name": "Minimal record and requested next step", "description": "Preserve the person's wording and material uncertainties, limit intimate details to their purpose, and distinguish support requests from formal reporting.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which details are needed for the requested purpose, and which intimate details can be omitted?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "minimal-record-and-requested-next-step-q01" }, { "text": "Does the person want documentation, support information or help using a particular reporting process?", "kind": "action", "id": "minimal-record-and-requested-next-step-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "No sense was recorded; the intended registry meaning should be checked against the nonsexual meaning of searching by touch.", "The listed kinds are descriptive distinctions, not a standard taxonomy.", "This is recall-based; no sources were consulted, and jurisdiction-specific legal definitions are not supplied." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of groping this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Touching over clothing", "Touching beneath clothing" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of groping this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Describing unwanted sexual touching in personal accounts and incident reports", "Classifying experiences in surveys of sexual victimisation", "Identifying conduct addressed by workplace, school and public-transport prevention policies" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of groping this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Prevalence of reported experiences", "typical_range": "Depends on population, recall period and the survey's definition of unwanted sexual touching", "unit": "percent of respondents" }, { "quantity": "Reported incident frequency", "typical_range": "No universal typical range", "unit": "incidents per specified reporting period" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of groping this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Violation of bodily autonomy and personal safety", "Fear, humiliation and psychological distress", "Possible physical injury", "Underreporting associated with stigma, fear of retaliation or difficulty identifying the person responsible", "Misclassification when reports fail to distinguish intentional sexual touching from accidental contact" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of groping this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "The term is colloquial rather than a universally defined legal category; legal terminology and classification vary by jurisdiction.", "Survey estimates vary with wording, reporting practices and cultural willingness to disclose experiences." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of groping this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Sexual assault", "difference": "A broader category that can include groping and other nonconsensual sexual acts; its legal boundaries vary." }, { "name": "Sexual harassment", "difference": "Can include unwanted verbal, visual and other noncontact conduct, whereas groping involves bodily contact." }, { "name": "Consensual sexual touching", "difference": "Consent distinguishes it from groping in the unwanted-sexual-contact sense used here." }, { "name": "Accidental bodily contact", "difference": "Lacks the intentional sexual touching characteristic of this sense of groping." }, { "name": "Searching by touch", "difference": "The nonsexual sense of groping means feeling around to locate something, especially when vision is limited." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of groping this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does vr.tr.groping denote unwanted sexual touching specifically, sexual touching more broadly, or the nonsexual sense of searching by touch?", "Does an existing world model already own this concept, requiring the registry entry to link to it rather than receive a separate publication?", "Which researched definitions distinguish groping from broader unwanted touching, and how do they handle intent, body region and contact through clothing?", "Which consent and capacity distinctions require explicit representation for different ages, contexts and jurisdictions?", "What minimum documentation supports the intended operational use while limiting unnecessary collection of intimate personal information?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 15, "questions": 23 } }