{ "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-07T10:13:32Z", "providers": [ "Codex", "Grok" ], "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "usd": 0.04757676, "turns": 3, "seconds": 161.3, "error": null }, "codex": { "seconds": 71.4, "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: 01a07b59-67c9-7fc2-a071-ba1136c6040b\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. 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ligne as the trade size unit (1 ligne = 0.635 mm).", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "wikipedia-button", "title": "Button", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button", "what_it_supports": "Attachment styles (flat/sew-through, shank, stud, toggle, covered, worked), ligne sizing, men's-right/women's-left convention, materials, and Qiaotou manufacturing share.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "wikidata-q160464", "title": "button (Q160464)", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q160464", "what_it_supports": "Canonical identifier as a small clothing fastener; explicit difference from a push-button; BnF subject ID.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "britannica-button", "title": "Button (clothing accessory)", "url": "https://www.britannica.com/topic/button-clothing-accessory", "what_it_supports": "Specialist description of holes or shank sewn to one side and passed through a loop or hole; decorative as well as functional use; historical materials and plastic mass production.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "iso-11610-2023", "title": "ISO 11610:2023 Protective clothing - Vocabulary", "url": "https://www.iso.org/standard/76610.html", "what_it_supports": "Places the button among garment closures, listed separately from slide fastener, press fastener (snap), touch-and-close fastener, and toggle button.", "url_status": "blocked" }, { "id": "wikipedia-knopf", "title": "Knopf", "url": "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knopf", "what_it_supports": "German trade kinds: Ösenknopf (shank), Lochknopf (sew-through), Nietenknopf (jeans/rivet).", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "cpsc-toy-safety", "title": "Toy Safety Business Guidance", "url": "https://www.cpsc.gov/Business--Manufacturing/Business-Education/Toy-Safety", "what_it_supports": "ASTM F963 made mandatory by 16 CFR part 1250; small-parts regime at 16 CFR part 1501.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "nra-childrens-apparel", "title": "Children's Apparel Product Safety Guidelines", "url": "https://www.nationalretail.org.au/resource/childrens-apparel-product-safety-guidelines/", "what_it_supports": "Detachment, breakage, sharp edges, and chemical hazards of buttons; 70 N for 10 s attachment test under AS/NZS ISO 8124.1.", "url_status": "live" }, { "id": "gs1-us-closure-codes", "title": "GS1 US Best Practice Guideline for Exchanging Product Images and Attributes", "url": "https://www.gs1us.org/", "what_it_supports": "Retail closure code GM03CLOSBN for Button, distinct from Snap (GM03CLOSSN) and Toggle (GM03CLOSTO).", "url_status": "live" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "button-role-and-recognition", "name": "Button role and recognition", "description": "Establishes which physical button role is present and what component is being modelled.", "rationale": "The word button can identify a fastening element or a control surface, which require different state judgements and actions.", "layers": [ { "id": "functional-identification", "name": "Functional identification", "description": "Identifies the button through its intended interaction.", "findings": [ { "id": "button-role", "name": "Button role", "description": "Record evidence for fastening, press-control or combined use without inferring function from appearance alone.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this component retain a fastening counterpart, accept a press input, or perform both roles?", "kind": "definition", "id": "button-role-q01" }, { "text": "What observation, host documentation or other evidence establishes that role?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "button-role-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "component-boundary", "name": "Component boundary", "description": "Separates the button from its host, counterpart and associated mechanism.", "findings": [ { "id": "modelled-button-extent", "name": "Modelled button extent", "description": "Record whether the identified thing is a fastening body, a removable control cap or a larger integrated component.", "questions": [ { "text": "Where does this button end and its mounting, counterpart or switch mechanism begin?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "modelled-button-extent-q01" }, { "text": "What observable feature distinguishes it from an ornament, knob, slider or mating snap fastener?", "kind": "definition", "id": "modelled-button-extent-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "button-fit-and-retention", "name": "Button fit and retention", "description": "Describes the geometry and attachment that let the button work in its particular assembly.", "rationale": "A recognisable button can still be unusable because it does not fit its counterpart or is inadequately attached.", "layers": [ { "id": "working-geometry", "name": "Working geometry", "description": "Captures dimensions at the interfaces used for fastening or pressing.", "findings": [ { "id": "counterpart-and-access-fit", "name": "Counterpart and access fit", "description": "Record fit to a hole or loop for fastening, or clearance and contact access for a control button.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which face, thickness, shank or clearance dimensions determine whether this button works with its identified counterpart?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "counterpart-and-access-fit-q01" }, { "text": "Can it pass through and retain the fastening counterpart, or move through its intended press path, without interference?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "counterpart-and-access-fit-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "host-attachment", "name": "Host attachment", "description": "Identifies how the button is held to its host.", "findings": [ { "id": "attachment-security", "name": "Attachment security", "description": "Record the retention method and evidence of looseness or separation at that interface.", "questions": [ { "text": "Is the button retained by thread through holes, a shank, a rivet, a clip or another identifiable mounting?", "kind": "definition", "id": "attachment-security-q01" }, { "text": "What observed movement, thread damage or mounting defect indicates that retention needs attention?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "attachment-security-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "button-engagement-and-response", "name": "Button engagement and response", "description": "Records role-specific operating states and separates physical operation from its intended result.", "rationale": "A fastened appearance may conceal partial engagement, and a depressed control does not prove that its command took effect.", "layers": [ { "id": "fastening-state", "name": "Fastening state", "description": "Assesses how a fastening button engages its counterpart; not applicable to control-only buttons.", "findings": [ { "id": "closure-engagement", "name": "Closure engagement", "description": "Record whether the counterpart is fully retained and whether tension or distortion compromises the closure.", "questions": [ { "text": "Has the button passed fully through the intended hole or loop, leaving the counterpart retained behind its working face?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "closure-engagement-q01" }, { "text": "Can the closure be released through its intended motion without forcing the button, attachment or counterpart?", "kind": "action", "id": "closure-engagement-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "press-response", "name": "Press response", "description": "Assesses control-button movement and feedback; not applicable to fastening-only buttons.", "findings": [ { "id": "actuation-and-return", "name": "Actuation and return", "description": "Record press movement, tactile or other feedback, return or latching behaviour, and separately verified downstream response.", "questions": [ { "text": "What force, travel and release behaviour are observed, and what evidence establishes the expected behaviour for this button?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "actuation-and-return-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence independently confirms whether pressing this button produced the intended action?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "actuation-and-return-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "button-condition-and-intervention", "name": "Button condition and intervention", "description": "Connects button-specific defects and function evidence to operation, maintenance and replacement decisions.", "rationale": "The agent needs to distinguish a usable button from one requiring repair and establish the consequences before operating a control.", "layers": [ { "id": "functional-damage", "name": "Functional damage", "description": "Assesses damage at the button face, attachment features and movement interfaces.", "findings": [ { "id": "defects-affecting-use", "name": "Defects affecting use", "description": "Record cracks through sewing holes or shanks, broken retaining edges, loose caps and obstructions to pressing.", "questions": [ { "text": "Are there cracks, worn retaining edges, loose attachment features or contaminants that interfere with this button's specific function?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "defects-affecting-use-q01" }, { "text": "Does the observed defect permit continued use, require restricted use or justify taking the button out of service, according to available evidence?", "kind": "action", "id": "defects-affecting-use-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operation-and-replacement-decisions", "name": "Operation and replacement decisions", "description": "Establishes prerequisites for pressing, servicing or substituting the button.", "findings": [ { "id": "justified-button-action", "name": "Justified button action", "description": "Record the known function, authority and compatibility evidence needed for the proposed operation or intervention.", "questions": [ { "text": "Before pressing this control, what establishes its function, the relevant system state and the agent's authority to trigger that action?", "kind": "action", "id": "justified-button-action-q01" }, { "text": "For reattachment or replacement, which dimensions, mounting details, material properties and markings must match the host's requirements?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "justified-button-action-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-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "sew-through flange (two-hole and four-hole)", "shank, including self-shank", "tack, jeans, or rivet button (mechanically clinched, not sewn)", "fabric-covered", "worked or cloth (Dorset, death-head, crocheted, or knotted frog/Mandarin)", "assembled or composite (joined dissimilar materials)", "stud (removable shirt stud or cuff-style push-through)", "magnetic" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of button this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "Wikidata", "value_or_pattern": "Q160464", "note": "Item 'button': small fastener used in clothing." }, { "scheme": "BnF", "value_or_pattern": "119693859", "note": "Subject named as Boutons." }, { "scheme": "GS1 US closure code", "value_or_pattern": "GM03CLOSBN", "note": "Product-attribute code for a button closure, distinct from snap and toggle codes." }, { "scheme": "ASTM ligne (button size)", "value_or_pattern": "integer L where 1 ligne = 0.635 mm (0.025 in); 40 L = 1 in", "note": "Trade diameter of apparel buttons, not a unique instance identifier." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of button this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "ASTM D2050-23 Terminology Relating to Fasteners and Closures Used with Textiles (ASTM International) - button terms apply to sew-through flange and shank buttons.", "ISO 11610:2023 Protective clothing - Vocabulary (ISO) - button listed as a garment closure, separate from press fastener and toggle button.", "ASTM D7842 holding strength of tack and prong attached button fasteners (ASTM International).", "EN 71-1 Safety of toys - Mechanical and physical properties, clause 8.4 tension test (CEN), applied in apparel specs to trims that fit the small-parts cylinder: typically 90 N for more than 10 s.", "ASTM F963 Standard Consumer Safety Specification for Toy Safety, mandatory in the United States via 16 CFR part 1250 (ASTM International / U.S. CPSC); 90 N tension is widely reused for children's garment trims.", "16 CFR part 1501 Small Parts Regulation (U.S. CPSC) - children's clothing buttons are listed among articles exempt from the federal small-parts ban, though industry still pull-tests them.", "AS/NZS ISO 8124.1 torque and tension tests (Standards Australia / Standards New Zealand) - children's apparel guidance uses a 70 N, 10 s attachment minimum." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of button this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Sewn or clinched onto shirts, jackets, coats, trousers, bags, wallets, and bedding to close overlapping edges through a buttonhole or loop.", "Shirt fronts and cuffs typically use small sew-through buttons (about 16 ligne / 10 mm); suit jackets about 32 ligne / 20 mm; coats 36-40 ligne and larger, often shanked so they sit above thick cloth.", "Metal tack or jeans buttons clinch the waistband of denim and workwear without sewing thread.", "Rows of buttons on cuffs, double-breasted fronts, and livery coats are often ornamental rather than working closures.", "Most of the world's supply is mass-moulded plastic, metal, shell, or wood; Qiaotou in Yongjia County, China, is reported as the dominant manufacturing centre.", "Collected as studio craft, archaeological finds, uniform insignia, and (historically in the United States) stamped clothing buttons used in political campaigns." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of button this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "diameter (ligne)", "typical_range": "16 L (shirts) to 32 L (jackets) to 40 L and above (coats); about 10-25+ mm", "unit": "ligne (1 L = 0.635 mm) or millimetre" }, { "quantity": "attachment holding force (children's apparel practice)", "typical_range": "70 N for 10 s (AS/NZS ISO 8124.1 guidance) to 90 N for 10 s (EN 71-1 / ASTM F963-derived buyer specs)", "unit": "newton" }, { "quantity": "sew-through hole count", "typical_range": "2 or 4", "unit": "count" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of button this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Thread or clinch failure so the button detaches; a detached button that fits the small-parts cylinder is a choking, aspiration, or ingestion hazard for young children.", "Chainstitch attachment unravels from a single broken stitch; lockstitch (ISO 4915 type 301) is specified in workwear practice to avoid that.", "Assembled or multi-component buttons separate into pieces; brittle natural materials (shell, bone, horn, wood) crack or shatter, leaving sharp edges.", "Pull-through or tearing of lightweight or knitted fabric when the button is stronger than the substrate; children's guidance requires attachment through two layers or a fusible backing.", "Coatings and alloys can carry restricted substances or nickel that irritate skin; food-like shapes invite mouthing.", "Spare buttons sewn onto children's garments become extra small parts; workwear practice also treats a loose button as foreign-object debris around machinery." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of button this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ "Classic Western clothing places the button on the wearer's right for men and left for women; many Hasidic and some other Jewish men reverse this and button right over left.", "German trade names distinguish Ösenknopf (shank), Lochknopf (sew-through holes), and Nietenknopf (jeans/rivet); English 'press stud' (UK) versus 'snap' (US) names the related fastener, not the sewn button.", "ISO protective-clothing vocabulary lists 'toggle button' separately from 'button'; GS1 retail codes likewise split Button, Snap, and Toggle.", "Late-17th-century French law required silk-covered buttons to protect the silk trades; England at the same period restricted fabric buttons to protect the button-makers' guild.", "Stamped clothing and later pin-back campaign buttons are a mainly United States political practice; manufacturing volume is concentrated in Qiaotou, China." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of button this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Reported by the breadth pass; each item needs checking against its source before it becomes normative.", "evidence": [ { "name": "snap fastener (press stud, press button, dome, popper)", "difference": "Two interlocking discs that engage by pressure; they do not pass through a buttonhole. ASTM D2050 and ISO 11610 treat snaps as a separate fastener class from buttons." }, { "name": "push-button", "difference": "A control surface that actuates a switch or mechanism rather than joining fabric; Wikidata marks Q160464 as different from the push-button item." }, { "name": "toggle (toggle button)", "difference": "A short bar passed endways through a loop or frog and then rotated; ISO 11610 lists toggle button as its own closure example, not as a disc-through-buttonhole button." }, { "name": "slide fastener (zip)", "difference": "A continuous linear closure of interlocking elements, not a single-point disc or knot through an opening." }, { "name": "rivet", "difference": "A permanent clinch not meant to be opened; a jeans button looks similar but is a working fastener paired with a buttonhole." }, { "name": "pin-back badge (campaign button)", "difference": "Pinned on as a display, not sewn through a buttonhole to close a garment; modern campaign 'buttons' are badges, unlike the earlier stamped clothing buttons." }, { "name": "hook-and-loop (touch-and-close) fastener", "difference": "A surface fastener of hooks engaging loops, listed separately from buttons in ASTM D2050 and ISO 11610." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of button this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does vr.tr.button intentionally include both fastening buttons and physical control buttons, or does another registry entry own one of these senses?", "Are press studs, toggle fasteners and decorative non-functional buttons included here or assigned to neighbouring registered things?", "Does the registry treat a control button as its contact surface or cap, or as the complete push-button switch assembly?", "Which documented tolerances, operating forces and retention criteria apply to each intended host and use context?", "How should fixed touch-sensitive physical controls be distinguished from moving push buttons and graphical buttons?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 5, "layers": 9, "findings": 16, "questions": 24 } }