{
  "vercy": "1.0-draft",
  "publication": {
    "status": "research-draft",
    "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed",
    "publishableCanonical": false,
    "generatedAt": "2026-09-11T12:48:55Z",
    "providers": [
      "Claude"
    ],
    "breadth": "written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify",
    "pass": 2,
    "wave": 1,
    "engine": "claude",
    "enrichment": {
      "pass": 3,
      "engine": "claude",
      "producedAt": "2026-10-05T18:00:00Z",
      "ingestedAt": "2026-10-05T13:25:38+00:00",
      "fields": [
        "agent_conduct",
        "ethics",
        "owners"
      ]
    },
    "gate": {
      "passed": true,
      "version": "1.0",
      "at": "2026-10-06T19:51:54+00:00",
      "evidence": [
        "completeness 1.00",
        "sense: Wikidata description",
        "2 live sources",
        "review by codex: pass"
      ]
    }
  },
  "metaModel": {
    "id": "THING-Q1424805",
    "registryId": "vr.tr.charge-q1424805",
    "name": "charge",
    "version": "0.2.0-wave.1",
    "entryKind": "thing",
    "family": "Thing Registry",
    "domain": [
      "INF.MED"
    ],
    "status": "research-draft"
  },
  "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q1424805/",
  "model": {
    "registry_id": "vr.tr.charge-q1424805",
    "name": "charge",
    "purpose": "Let an agent handle heraldic charges by type, blazon, depiction, examples and the rules of heraldic authorities.",
    "definition": "Any figure or emblem placed on a heraldic shield or field, such as animals, plants, objects and geometric figures, described in the blazon by tincture, posture and position; some authorities count the ordinaries as charges while others treat them separately.",
    "what_it_is_for": "Heraldic design, interpretation and research.",
    "affordances": [
      "identify charges in a coat of arms",
      "read and write blazons",
      "find arms using a given charge",
      "understand heraldic rules for new arms"
    ],
    "distinguishing_features": [
      "Placed on the field",
      "Described by tincture and attitude",
      "Huge variety",
      "Meaning often unattested"
    ],
    "appearance": "Figures such as lions, eagles, crosses, stars, pots, sheaves and hearts painted on shields.",
    "visual_identification": [
      "Figures placed on the field of a shield",
      "Described in blazon terms",
      "Supporters and crests sit outside the shield"
    ],
    "physical_properties": [],
    "families_and_kinds": [
      "animate charges such as beasts and birds",
      "inanimate charges such as tools and pots",
      "plant charges such as garbs of wheat",
      "ordinaries and sub-ordinaries (in some systems)",
      "canting charges that pun on names"
    ],
    "related_models": [
      {
        "relation": "is a kind of",
        "target": "heraldic symbol",
        "why": "category"
      },
      {
        "relation": "appears in",
        "target": "coat of arms",
        "why": "context"
      },
      {
        "relation": "is described by",
        "target": "blazon",
        "why": "language"
      },
      {
        "relation": "includes",
        "target": "water (heraldry)",
        "why": "example"
      }
    ],
    "identifiers": [],
    "standards_and_regulation": [
      "Rules of heraldic authorities where they exist"
    ],
    "failure_modes_and_hazards": [
      "Unsourced symbolic meanings",
      "Misreading blazon terms"
    ],
    "in_scope": [],
    "out_of_scope": [],
    "characteristics": [],
    "agent_conduct": {
      "may": [
        "Describe and identify heraldic charges using the blazon of a recorded coat of arms.",
        "Explain the meaning and history of a charge, citing heraldic sources."
      ],
      "must_not": [
        "Attribute a coat of arms to a person or family who has no right to it.",
        "Design arms for someone that copy registered arms or charges reserved by law.",
        "Use state or official charges in a way that suggests official authority."
      ],
      "requires_human": [
        "Registering or granting new arms."
      ]
    },
    "ethics": {
      "considerations": [
        "Arms are tied to identity, lineage and sometimes legal right, so misattribution misleads.",
        "Some charges carry religious, national or colonial meanings that communities feel strongly about."
      ],
      "affected_parties": [
        "Armigers and their families",
        "Communities whose symbols appear",
        "Heraldic authorities"
      ]
    },
    "owners": {
      "steward": "The armiger who holds the arms; heraldic authorities where they exist record grants.",
      "master_systems": [
        "Heraldic authority registers of arms"
      ]
    }
  },
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "wikidata",
      "title": "Wikidata item Q1424805: charge",
      "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1424805",
      "url_status": "live",
      "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item",
      "checked_by": "wikidata-api"
    },
    {
      "id": "wikipedia-en",
      "title": "Wikipedia: Charge (heraldry)",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_%28heraldry%29",
      "url_status": "live",
      "what_it_supports": "general description of the item",
      "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink"
    }
  ],
  "structure": {
    "bundles": [
      {
        "id": "identify",
        "name": "Identify",
        "description": "Which charge.",
        "rationale": "Blazon identifies.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "figure",
            "name": "Figure",
            "description": "What it depicts.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "figure-finding",
                "name": "Figure",
                "description": "Figure.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "What does this charge depict, and in what attitude?",
                    "kind": "definition"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "What tincture is it?",
                    "kind": "definition"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "blazon",
            "name": "Blazon",
            "description": "Description.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "blazon-finding",
                "name": "Blazon",
                "description": "Blazon.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "How is the charge blazoned in the official grant?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "How is its position described?",
                    "kind": "definition"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "meaning",
        "name": "Meaning",
        "description": "Symbolism.",
        "rationale": "Meanings need sources.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "attested",
            "name": "Attested",
            "description": "Documented meanings.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "attested-finding",
                "name": "Attested",
                "description": "Attested meanings.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Does the grant or armiger state a meaning for the charge?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Is a popular symbolic meaning unsupported?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "canting",
            "name": "Canting",
            "description": "Puns on names.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "canting-finding",
                "name": "Canting",
                "description": "Canting arms.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Is this a canting charge that puns on the bearer name?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which sources say so?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "rules",
        "name": "Rules",
        "description": "Heraldic conventions.",
        "rationale": "Conventions guide design.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "tincture",
            "name": "Tincture",
            "description": "Rule of tincture.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "tincture-finding",
                "name": "Tincture",
                "description": "Rule of tincture.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Does the design follow the rule of tincture?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which exceptions apply?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "authority",
            "name": "Authority",
            "description": "Registration.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "authority-finding",
                "name": "Authority",
                "description": "Heraldic authority.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Which heraldic authority governs arms here?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "How are new arms registered?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "research",
        "name": "Research",
        "description": "Finding arms.",
        "rationale": "Databases help.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "find",
            "name": "Find",
            "description": "Arms with a charge.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "find-finding",
                "name": "Find",
                "description": "Finding arms.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Which arms include this charge, according to armorials?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Which databases list them?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "ordinaries",
            "name": "Ordinaries",
            "description": "Terminology.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "ordinaries-finding",
                "name": "Ordinaries",
                "description": "Ordinaries.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Does this tradition count ordinaries as charges?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "How do references differ?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "openQuestions": [
    "Should each charge be a separate entry?",
    "How should blazon vocabularies be linked?",
    "How should national traditions be recorded?"
  ],
  "statistics": {
    "bundles": 4,
    "layers": 8,
    "findings": 8,
    "questions": 16
  }
}