{ "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T11:49:19Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 25.0, "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: 01a09572-7346-75d1-ae1c-7236fffd9b3e\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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eating episodes assessed as excessive against an explicit reference, evaluate uncertainty and recurrence, and identify appropriate next actions without assuming a diagnosis.", "definition": "Overeating is eating more food than is appropriate to a person's energy needs or a contextually defined amount, with the threshold depending on whether assessment concerns a single episode or a sustained pattern.", "scope_statement": "This model owns overeating as an eating activity or recurring activity pattern, including the basis for judging excess, episode boundaries, experienced control, context and reported consequences; it does not own eating-disorder diagnoses or body-weight classifications.", "in_scope": [ "Actual food and drink consumption within a defined episode or observation period", "The reference, evidence and assessor used to judge consumption excessive", "Hunger, fullness, intention and experienced control associated with the episode", "Situational influences and recurrence across 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of episodes per specified observation period, with missing observations and assessment rule", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes an isolated event from a recurring pattern using comparable evidence." }, { "name": "Reported consequences", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Physical discomfort, distress, disruption of activities, no reported consequence or unknown; each with timing and severity description", "why_it_matters": "Records the significance of an episode without treating consequences as proof of its cause." } ], "affordances": [ "Describe an episode using the person's language while separating intake evidence from the assessment of excess.", "Compare competing assessments of the same episode and identify the reference responsible for disagreement.", "Request missing context before assigning or accepting an overeating label.", "Review recurring circumstances across episodes while distinguishing association from causation.", "Support a person-selected next step, such as clarifying the episode or seeking qualified assessment when concerns warrant it." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Explain overeating, its causes and its health effects from reliable sources.", "Point people to dietitians, doctors or eating disorder services." ], "must_not": [ "Shame people for their weight or eating.", "Recommend extreme diets, fasting or purging to make up for eating.", "Diagnose an eating disorder.", "Track a person's eating for others without their consent." ], "requires_human": [ "Responding to signs of an eating disorder, which should be passed to trained people." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Weight stigma harms health and dignity.", "Eating disorders are serious illnesses that bad advice can worsen." ], "affected_parties": [ "People with eating disorders", "People living with obesity", "Young people" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "Nobody owns the behaviour; health services support people affected by it.", "master_systems": [] }, "what_it_is_for": [ "Overeating is discussed in everyday accounts of meals and in nutritional or clinical assessments of eating patterns.", "The term supports comparison with an explicit reference for amount or energy needs, while distinguishing an isolated episode from a recurring pattern." ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "The International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, issued by the World Health Organization, includes R63.2 for polyphagia, whose applicability requires assessment rather than automatic assignment to every reported episode of overeating." ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "An episode can cause uncomfortable fullness or digestive discomfort.", "A sustained pattern of energy intake exceeding expenditure can contribute to unwanted weight gain.", "Judging intake without considering individual needs can lead to inappropriate restriction or inaccurate health conclusions.", "Stigmatizing labels or automatic assumptions of an eating disorder can increase distress and discourage appropriate support." ], "facets_not_applicable": { "recognition": "Overeating cannot be established from appearance or observation of a meal alone because assessment requires an explicit reference and individual context." } }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q331632: overeating", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q331632", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Overeating", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overeating", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "basis-for-excess", "name": "Basis for excess", "description": "Establishes what overeating means in the particular assessment and whose judgement it represents.", "rationale": "Without an explicit reference, overeating can conflate quantity, intention, discomfort and moral judgement.", "layers": [ { "id": "reference-and-window", "name": "Reference and comparison window", "description": "Specifies the criterion and interval against which consumption is assessed.", "findings": [ { "id": "explicit-excess-criterion", "name": "Explicit excess criterion", "description": "Represent excess as an assessment against a named reference rather than an intrinsic property of a food or portion.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does excess mean more than intended, beyond comfortable fullness, unusually large in context or above an estimated requirement?", "kind": "definition", "id": "explicit-excess-criterion-q01" }, { "text": "What time interval and evidence make that comparison meaningful for this episode?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "explicit-excess-criterion-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "assessment-ownership", "name": "Assessment ownership", "description": "Preserves the origin, certainty and possible disagreement surrounding the label.", "findings": [ { "id": "attributed-judgement", "name": "Attributed judgement", "description": "Keep self-assessment, external observation and agent inference distinguishable, including unresolved disagreement.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who called the episode overeating, and what did they observe or report?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attributed-judgement-q01" }, { "text": "Would the label remain supported if guilt, food rules or others' disapproval were removed from the evidence?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "attributed-judgement-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "consumption-and-satiety", "name": "Consumption and satiety", "description": "Describes what was consumed, when it was consumed and the person's changing hunger and fullness.", "rationale": "The model needs episode-level evidence while keeping consumption estimates separate from bodily experience.", "layers": [ { "id": "episode-reconstruction", "name": "Episode reconstruction", "description": "Defines the activity boundary and records intake with 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"How did the person describe hunger and fullness before, during and after eating?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "fullness-and-continuation-q01" }, { "text": "If eating continued beyond comfortable fullness, when was that point recognised and how was it reported?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "fullness-and-continuation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "intention-control-and-context", "name": "Intention, control and context", "description": "Separates planned consumption, experienced control and circumstances surrounding eating.", "rationale": "Similar quantities can occur through deliberate choice, disrupted intentions or reported loss of control, requiring different interpretations.", "layers": [ { "id": "intention-and-agency", "name": "Intention and agency", "description": "Records plans and experienced ability to influence eating without deriving either from quantity.", "findings": [ { "id": "control-distinct-from-amount", "name": "Control distinct from amount", "description": "Represent exceeding an intention and experiencing inability to stop as separate aspects of an episode.", "questions": [ { "text": "Was there an intended amount or stopping point, and did that intention change during eating?", "kind": "definition", "id": "control-distinct-from-amount-q01" }, { "text": "Did the person report choosing to continue, difficulty stopping or inability to control eating?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "control-distinct-from-amount-q02" }, { "text": "What remains unknown before this episode could be assessed within a neighbouring binge-eating model?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "control-distinct-from-amount-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "situational-antecedents", "name": "Situational antecedents", "description": "Captures circumstances that may help explain the episode without presuming a cause.", "findings": [ { "id": "context-without-causal-assumption", "name": "Context without causal assumption", "description": "Record preceding eating opportunities, social circumstances, 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reported consequences over a stated period.", "findings": [ { "id": "comparable-recurrence", "name": "Comparable recurrence", "description": "Count episodes using a consistent assessment rule and retain observation gaps, effects and uncertainty about attribution.", "questions": [ { "text": "How often did similarly assessed episodes occur, over what period and with what gaps in observation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "comparable-recurrence-q01" }, { "text": "What discomfort, distress or disruption followed, and what supports attributing it to the episode?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "comparable-recurrence-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "response-and-handoff", "name": "Response and handoff", "description": "Connects the person's concern to a proportionate next step and identifies matters requiring another model or qualified assessment.", "findings": [ { "id": "person-directed-next-step", "name": "Person-directed next step", "description": "Base action on the person's goals, available 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"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 registry supplies no sense; this description assumes human eating behaviour.", "There is no single universally accepted operational definition: excess relative to energy needs, situational norms and perceived excess should be distinguished.", "The listed kinds are overlapping descriptive patterns, not a formal classification; no diagnostic identifier is asserted for the broad behaviour." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of overeating this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and 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hold for the sense of overeating 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": [ "Episodes can cause uncomfortable fullness and digestive discomfort.", "Sustained intake above energy expenditure can contribute to weight gain.", "Equating overeating with binge eating can obscure the clinically important role of loss of control.", "Judging intake solely by portion appearance or body size can misclassify eating behaviour.", "Moralising the behaviour can reinforce shame and discourage accurate reporting." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of overeating this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional 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overeating alone does not establish it." }, { "name": "Emotional eating", "difference": "Defined by eating in response to emotions, which need not involve an excessive amount." }, { "name": "Hyperphagia", "difference": "Describes excessive eating or increased food intake, often in clinical contexts; usage overlaps with overeating and has no consistently sharp boundary." }, { "name": "Positive energy balance", "difference": "An energy-accounting state in which intake exceeds expenditure, including during appropriate growth or recovery; it does not necessarily imply overeating." }, { "name": "Obesity", "difference": "A condition involving excess adiposity, rather than an eating behaviour; neither establishes the other in an individual." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of overeating this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, 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