{ "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T10:07:06Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 22.3, "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-cf64-79b1-afde-b585b0a84fca\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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"category", "unit_or_values": "High; moderate; low; unassessable, with an explicit evidential reason", "why_it_matters": "Prevents obscured contact, commentary and inferred intent from becoming unqualified observations." } ], "affordances": [ "Annotate candidate ground-and-pound episodes in footage or event records with timestamps and supporting evidence.", "Separate grounded striking from adjacent takedown, grappling and standing-striking phases.", "Compare episode duration, positional continuity and observed striking under a shared annotation convention.", "Flag potentially rule-relevant actions for review against the identified ruleset.", "Record defensive transitions and official interventions without inferring medical condition.", "Identify disputed classifications and request additional footage or authoritative terminology." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Explain ground-and-pound as a regulated tactic in combat sports and the rules that limit it.", "Describe how referees and medical staff protect fighters." ], "must_not": [ "Coach anyone to use the tactic against a person outside a sanctioned contest.", "Describe striking a downed person as acceptable in street fights or assaults.", "Glorify serious injuries or encourage fighters to continue after a referee should stop a bout." ], "requires_human": [ "Advising on safety rules for an event or a training programme." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Strikes to a grounded opponent can cause brain injury; rules and referees exist to limit harm.", "Violence outside sport against a downed person is assault." ], "affected_parties": [ "Fighters", "Victims of assault", "Young athletes" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "Nobody owns the tactic; athletic commissions and sport bodies set the rules.", "master_systems": [] }, "what_it_is_for": [ "Ground-and-pound is encountered in mixed martial arts competition, training and analysis of recorded bouts.", "The term describes the combination of ground control and striking 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"Wikidata item Q2749261: Ground-and-pound", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2749261", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Ground and pound", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_and_pound", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "episode-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Episode identity and boundaries", "description": "Determines which grounded striking exchanges qualify and where each episode begins and ends.", "rationale": "Ground-and-pound is an action pattern whose boundaries can otherwise be confused with an entire ground exchange.", "layers": [ { "id": "qualifying-action-pattern", "name": "Qualifying action pattern", "description": "Tests the combination of grounded engagement, positional relationship and striking.", "findings": [ { "id": "core-case-and-borderline-cases", "name": "Core case and borderline cases", "description": "Use top-position grounded striking as a provisional core case, and preserve uncertainty around bottom-position strikes or brief transitional contact.", "questions": [ { "text": "What observed grounded relationship and strike attempt support identifying this exchange as ground-and-pound?", "kind": "definition", "id": "core-case-and-borderline-cases-q01" }, { "text": "Does the terminology source include bottom-position striking, standing-over strikes or strikes during a scramble?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "core-case-and-borderline-cases-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "temporal-segmentation", "name": "Temporal segmentation", "description": "Separates episodes from the surrounding takedown, grappling and standing phases.", "findings": [ { "id": "onset-continuation-and-end", "name": "Onset, continuation and end", "description": "Record explicit segmentation conventions for first qualifying attempts, pauses, positional changes and termination.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which timestamp marks the first qualifying strike attempt, and how precisely can it be located?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "onset-continuation-and-end-q01" }, { "text": "Which pauses or positional changes end this episode rather than merely interrupt its striking?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "onset-continuation-and-end-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "ground-position-and-control", "name": "Ground position and control", "description": "Records the positional context that makes the striking a grounded engagement.", "rationale": "Strike counts alone cannot distinguish ground-and-pound from other striking or explain changes within an episode.", "layers": [ { "id": "participant-position", "name": "Participant position", "description": "Tracks relative positions and supporting surfaces without assuming that a position name proves control.", "findings": [ { "id": "position-through-time", "name": "Position through time", "description": "Represent top, bottom and transitional relationships as time-varying observations, adding named grappling positions only when supported.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are each participant's relative position and visible points of support during the recorded strike attempts?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "position-through-time-q01" }, { "text": "Which positional labels are supported by the view, and which remain ambiguous?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "position-through-time-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "control-and-defensive-transitions", "name": "Control and defensive transitions", "description": "Tracks contested control and the opponent's observable responses.", "findings": [ { "id": "control-is-not-implied-by-top-position", "name": "Control is not implied by top position", "description": "Keep positional advantage separate from evidence that the opponent's movement is constrained, and record changes such as reversals or disengagement.", "questions": [ { "text": "What visible evidence supports describing control as maintained, contested or lost?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "control-is-not-implied-by-top-position-q01" }, { "text": "Did a defensive response change the positional relationship, stop the striking or end grounded engagement?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "control-is-not-implied-by-top-position-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "striking-evidence-and-effect", "name": "Striking evidence and effect", "description": "Separates attempted strikes, observable contact and supported effects.", "rationale": "Ground-and-pound footage can obscure contact, while activity, effectiveness and injury are distinct claims.", "layers": [ { "id": "strike-observation", "name": "Strike observation", "description": "Records what the evidence shows about individual attempts and their contact status.", "findings": [ { "id": "attempts-contact-and-occlusion", "name": "Attempts, contact and occlusion", "description": "Distinguish clearly observed attempts from confirmed contact, defensive interception and indeterminate events.", "questions": [ { "text": "How many attempts are visible, and which can be classified as contacting, blocked, missing or indeterminate?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "attempts-contact-and-occlusion-q01" }, { "text": "Which camera angles, replay segments or records support each contact classification?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attempts-contact-and-occlusion-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "episode-effectiveness", "name": "Episode effectiveness", "description": "Assesses effects using explicit criteria and separates observation from causal interpretation.", "findings": [ { "id": "effect-does-not-follow-from-volume", "name": "Effect does not follow from volume", "description": "Evaluate visible responses, positional consequences and recorded outcomes separately from strike volume; do not infer injury from activity alone.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which criterion defines effectiveness here: observed contact, positional consequence, official scoring assessment or recorded outcome?", "kind": "definition", "id": "effect-does-not-follow-from-volume-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence connects an observed change or outcome to this episode, and what alternative explanations remain?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "effect-does-not-follow-from-volume-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "rules-and-official-intervention", "name": "Rules and official intervention", "description": "Connects grounded striking observations to the governing sporting rules and official decisions.", "rationale": "Identifying ground-and-pound does not establish that its individual actions were permitted or explain why an official intervened.", "layers": [ { "id": "rule-conditioned-assessment", "name": "Rule-conditioned assessment", "description": "Evaluates potentially relevant actions using an identified rule text and sufficient event evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "legality-requires-specific-context", "name": "Legality requires specific context", "description": "Treat grounded status, strike type and contact location as inputs to a rule-dependent assessment rather than assigning blanket legality to ground-and-pound.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which ruleset and version governed this event, and how did it define grounded status and prohibited strikes?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "legality-requires-specific-context-q01" }, { "text": "Is the observed action sufficiently clear for assessment, or should the agent flag it for qualified review?", "kind": "action", "id": "legality-requires-specific-context-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "intervention-and-recorded-outcome", "name": "Intervention and recorded outcome", "description": "Records interruptions and outcomes while keeping official explanations distinct from observer interpretations.", "findings": [ { "id": "stoppage-reason-and-evidence", "name": "Stoppage reason and evidence", "description": "Record the timing, type and stated reason for intervention, including uncertainty when the official explanation is unavailable.", "questions": [ { "text": "Was the episode interrupted by an official, and what reason appears in the official record?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "stoppage-reason-and-evidence-q01" }, { "text": "Does the evidence justify recording a terminal outcome, a temporary interruption or only an unexplained end to the episode?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "stoppage-reason-and-evidence-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": [ "The kinds listed are commonly distinguished positional variants, not a universally standardized taxonomy.", "Exact permitted techniques, target restrictions and grounded-opponent definitions require checking the applicable rule edition and jurisdiction.", "Ground-strike statistics depend on the provider's definitions; not every recorded ground strike necessarily represents sustained ground-and-pound." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Ground-and-pound 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": [ "Ground-and-pound from inside the opponent's guard", 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