{ "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-13T22:29:46Z", "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": 4, "engine": "claude", "enrichment": { "pass": 3, "engine": "claude", "producedAt": "2026-10-06T11:00:00Z", "ingestedAt": "2026-10-06T07:41:27+00:00", "fields": [ "agent_conduct", "ethics", "owners" ] }, "gate": { "passed": true, "version": "1.0", "at": "2026-10-06T19:52:00+00:00", "evidence": [ "completeness 1.00", "sense: Wikidata description", "2 live sources", "review by codex: pass" ] } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q42569", "registryId": "vr.tr.llama", "name": "llama", "version": "0.2.0-wave.4", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "PHY.LIV" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q42569/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.llama", "name": "llama", "purpose": "Let an agent explain llamas, relay domestication, uses, behaviour, care and welfare from zoological and veterinary sources, describe the domestic llama and flag the chaku alias, and distinguish llamas from alpacas, guanacos, vicunas and camels.", "definition": "A domesticated South American camelid, Lama glama, bred from the guanaco in the Andes several thousand years ago and used by Andean peoples including the Inca as a pack animal and for wool, meat and dung fuel, now also kept worldwide as a pet, guard animal for sheep and in wool farming; it is larger than the alpaca, lives in herds, communicates with humming and can spit when stressed. The registry alias chaku names the traditional Andean communal round-up and shearing, applied mainly to wild vicunas, so it appears misfiled. Llamas can carry zoonoses and need veterinary care and companions.", "what_it_is_for": "Pack transport, fibre, meat, guarding and companionship.", "affordances": [ "explain domestication and uses", "relay behaviour and care", "flag the chaku alias", "distinguish related camelids" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Banana-shaped ears", "Pack animal", "Herd animal", "Andean heritage" ], "appearance": "A long-necked woolly animal with banana-shaped ears, standing about 1.7 to 1.8 metres to the head.", "visual_identification": [ "Domestic Andean camelid", "Domestic llama, chaku, Lama glama", "Alpacas are smaller with straight ears; guanacos are the wild ancestor; vicunas are wild and fine-fibred; camels are larger Old World relatives" ], "physical_properties": [ { "quantity": "scientific name", "typical_range": "Lama glama", "unit": "taxon", "note": "" }, { "quantity": "adult weight", "typical_range": "about 130-200", "unit": "kg", "note": "" }, { "quantity": "lifespan", "typical_range": "about 15-25", "unit": "years", "note": "" } ], "families_and_kinds": [ "classic or ccara llamas", "woolly or tapada llamas", "guard llamas", "pack llamas" ], "related_models": [ { "relation": "is a kind of", "target": "domesticated mammal", "why": "in registry terms" }, { "relation": "was domesticated from", "target": "guanaco", "why": "" }, { "relation": "is contrasted with", "target": "alpaca", "why": "" }, { "relation": "is contrasted with", "target": "vicuna", "why": "wild species in chaku" } ], "identifiers": [ { "scheme": "scientific name", "value_or_pattern": "Lama glama (Linnaeus, 1758)", "note": "" } ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "Animal welfare laws", "Livestock movement and disease rules" ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Keeping single llamas without companions", "Berserk male syndrome in bottle-raised males", "Misfiled chaku alias" ], "in_scope": [], "out_of_scope": [], "characteristics": [], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Feed, water and monitor llamas on their keeper's instructions.", "Report a llama that is injured, ill or under stress to its keeper or a veterinarian." ], "must_not": [ "Keep or recommend keeping a single llama without companions of its kind.", "Bottle-raise or handle a young male in ways that teach it to treat people as herd members.", "Give medicines or treatment that a veterinarian has not prescribed.", "File chaku, a traditional vicuna round-up, as a llama itself." ], "requires_human": [ "Selling, slaughtering or euthanising a llama." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Llamas are herd animals; isolation causes them real distress.", "Llamas are central to Andean cultures and livelihoods, not only exotic pets." ], "affected_parties": [ "The llama itself", "Its keeper", "Andean herding communities" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "The keeper of the animal; animal health authorities register livestock where required.", "master_systems": [ "Livestock registers where llamas are recorded" ] } }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q42569: llama", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42569", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Llama", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llama", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "understand", "name": "Understand", "description": "What a llama is.", "rationale": "Science.", "layers": [ { "id": "definition", "name": "Definition", "description": "Definition.", "findings": [ { "id": "definition-finding", "name": "Definition", "description": "Definition.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is a llama, and how does it differ from alpacas, guanacos, vicunas and camels?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Is the question about keeping llamas, a sick animal needing a vet, or Andean culture?", "kind": "boundary" } ] } ] }, { "id": "chaku", "name": "Chaku", "description": "Chaku.", "findings": [ { "id": "chaku-finding", "name": "Chaku", "description": "Chaku.", "questions": [ { "text": "What is the chaku round-up, and why does it concern vicunas more than llamas?", "kind": "definition" }, { "text": "Which entry fits vicuna?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "biology", "name": "Biology", "description": "Biology.", "rationale": "Science.", "layers": [ { "id": "domestication", "name": "Domestication", "description": "Domestication.", "findings": [ { "id": "domestication-finding", "name": "Domestication", "description": "Domestication.", "questions": [ { "text": "How were llamas domesticated from guanacos?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which references are standard?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] }, { "id": "behaviour", "name": "Behaviour", "description": "Behaviour.", "findings": [ { "id": "behaviour-finding", "name": "Behaviour", "description": "Behaviour.", "questions": [ { "text": "Why do llamas hum, spit and guard sheep?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which sources are cited?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "care", "name": "Care", "description": "Care and welfare.", "rationale": "Regulation.", "layers": [ { "id": "husbandry", "name": "Husbandry", "description": "Husbandry.", "findings": [ { "id": "husbandry-finding", "name": "Husbandry", "description": "Husbandry.", "questions": [ { "text": "What shelter, companions, shearing and foot care do llamas need?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits camelid husbandry?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "health", "name": "Health", "description": "Health.", "findings": [ { "id": "health-finding", "name": "Health", "description": "Health.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which diseases affect llamas, such as tuberculosis in some countries?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits bovine tuberculosis?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "context", "name": "Context", "description": "Culture.", "rationale": "Context.", "layers": [ { "id": "inca", "name": "Inca", "description": "Andean economy.", "findings": [ { "id": "inca-finding", "name": "Inca", "description": "Inca.", "questions": [ { "text": "How did llama caravans support the Inca economy?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits Inca road system?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] }, { "id": "antibodies", "name": "Antibodies", "description": "Nanobodies.", "findings": [ { "id": "antibodies-finding", "name": "Antibodies", "description": "Antibodies.", "questions": [ { "text": "Why are camelid single-domain antibodies used in research?", "kind": "provenance" }, { "text": "Which entry fits nanobody?", "kind": "action" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "The registry alias chaku should be moved to vicuna or Andean round-up entries", "How should veterinary care sources be linked?", "Should llama types be separate entries?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 4, "layers": 8, "findings": 8, "questions": 16 } }