{ "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T10:36:10Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 16.7, "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: 01a0952f-4171-76f0-916f-d284ddb005ef\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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in Chad", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise, describe and assess Islamic religious life in Chad while distinguishing communities, institutions and practices without treating them as one organisation.", "definition": "Islam in Chad is the religious tradition of Islam as practised by communities in Chad, encompassing their beliefs, worship, institutions, scholarship and social life rather than a single organisation.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the country-specific configuration of Islamic affiliation, practice, authority, institutions and public relationships within Chad, with dated evidence and explicit limits on representation.", "in_scope": [ "Patterns of Muslim affiliation and community presence within Chad", "Islamic practices, traditions and religious learning as locally understood and organised", "Mosques, religious associations and networks as participants in Chad's Islamic religious life", "Relationships between Muslim communities, public authorities and other 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"category", "unit_or_values": "Source-attested self-descriptions of traditions, schools or movements; contested or unspecified where appropriate", "why_it_matters": "Preserves distinctions recognised by communities without imposing unsupported classifications." }, { "name": "Religious authority relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Actor, constituency, claimed function, basis of authority, geographical reach and evidence of acceptance", "why_it_matters": "Determines who can speak or act for whom in a specific context." }, { "name": "Religious learning arrangement", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Locally documented teaching setting, curriculum, teaching language, learner group and oversight", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes forms of Islamic education and their relationships to other education systems." }, { "name": "Institutional operating condition", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Active, interrupted, relocated, closed or unknown, for a named institution and date", "why_it_matters": "Supports realistic decisions about access to religious services and institutional contact." }, { "name": "Public regulation relationship", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Applicable legal instrument or administrative practice, responsible authority, affected activity and effective period", "why_it_matters": "Separates formal rules from evidence of how religious activities are administered." }, { "name": "Cross-border religious connection", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Documented teaching, pilgrimage, family, institutional or funding connection, with endpoints and dates", "why_it_matters": "Captures external relationships without assuming common identity, allegiance or control." } ], "affordances": [ "Compare dated accounts of Muslim affiliation and distribution in Chad while exposing incompatible methods.", "Map documented religious institutions and authority relationships for a particular locality or activity.", "Assess whether a claim about Islam in Chad is local, national, historical, disputed or unsupported.", "Identify appropriate interlocutors for a stated religious or community activity and verify their representative remit.", "Trace changes in religious learning, practice and institutional access using geographically specific evidence.", "Check applicable requirements for a proposed public religious activity while distinguishing law, administrative practice and community expectations." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Describe Islam in Chad, its scholarship, brotherhoods and history from reliable sources.", "Present the variety of practice across Chad's regions and peoples." ], "must_not": [ "Frame Chad's politics as a simple Muslim against Christian conflict.", "Conflate Chadian Muslims with armed groups in the Lake Chad basin.", "Speak for religious authorities or councils.", "Infer a person's religion from region or ethnicity." ], "requires_human": [ "Publishing content about religious leaders in political or security matters." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Chad's history includes civil wars where religion and region were exploited.", "Ordinary believers suffer from both insurgent violence and suspicion." ], "affected_parties": [ "Chadian Muslims", "Christian and traditional communities", "Displaced people" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "The Muslim communities and their institutions; nobody owns a religion.", "master_systems": [] }, "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Simplistic religious framing can feed conflict." ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 18 on freedom of thought, conscience and religion, United Nations General Assembly, 1948." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "Islam in Chad is encountered through community worship, religious education, scholarship, charitable activity and household observances.", "The term is used in historical and social research to describe diverse Muslim communities and their relationships with wider Chadian society.", "Specific beliefs, practices and institutional affiliations require local evidence because they vary across communities." ], "facets_not_applicable": { "recognition": "Islam in Chad is a religious and social tradition that cannot be reliably identified from appearance, clothing or buildings alone." } }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q584612: Islam in Chad", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q584612", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Islam in Chad", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Chad", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "community-presence-and-boundaries", "name": "Community presence and boundaries", "description": "Establishes who and what a description of Islam in Chad covers, geographically and demographically.", "rationale": "The registry title names a country-level religious field whose population and boundaries cannot be read from organisational membership.", "layers": [ { "id": "territorial-presence", "name": "Territorial presence", "description": "Locates evidence of Islamic community life within Chad.", "findings": [ { "id": "locality-specific-coverage", "name": "Locality-specific coverage", "description": "Record the places and populations actually covered by each source, preserving gaps between local observation and national inference.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which localities and administrative boundaries in Chad does this evidence cover, and for what period?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "locality-specific-coverage-q01" }, { "text": "Does the source distinguish residents, mobile populations and displaced communities, or leave their coverage unclear?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "locality-specific-coverage-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "affiliation-and-counting", "name": "Affiliation and counting", "description": "Makes estimates of Muslim affiliation interpretable and comparable.", "findings": [ { "id": "population-estimate-basis", "name": "Population estimate basis", "description": "Record religious affiliation estimates with their definitions, denominators and collection methods rather than as timeless population facts.", "questions": [ { "text": "What question or classification rule identified a person as Muslim in this estimate for Chad?", "kind": "definition", "id": "population-estimate-basis-q01" }, { "text": "What are the estimate's year, denominator, geographic coverage and stated uncertainty?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "population-estimate-basis-q02" }, { "text": "Does the estimate measure self-reported affiliation, household attribution or another proxy?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "population-estimate-basis-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "traditions-and-lived-practice", "name": "Traditions and lived practice", "description": "Describes locally evidenced religious orientations and observances without assuming uniformity across Chad.", "rationale": "A national affiliation label does not establish shared doctrine, ritual practice or participation.", "layers": [ { "id": "religious-self-description", "name": "Religious self-description", "description": "Preserves the terms communities use for their religious positions and associations.", "findings": [ { "id": "attested-tradition-labels", "name": "Attested tradition labels", "description": "Record religious labels with their speakers, meanings and contested boundaries.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which traditions, schools or movements are explicitly identified by Muslim communities in the Chad locality being described?", "kind": "definition", "id": "attested-tradition-labels-q01" }, { "text": "Is each label a community self-description, an official classification or an outside researcher's interpretation?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "attested-tradition-labels-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "observance-in-local-settings", "name": "Observance in local settings", "description": "Connects religious practices to their actual settings, participants and arrangements.", "findings": [ { "id": "practice-and-participation", "name": "Practice and participation", "description": "Record how named communities organise worship, Ramadan observance, festivals and other documented practices, separating prescriptions from observations.", "questions": [ { "text": "How are the relevant observances organised in this Chad locality, and which variations do participants identify?", "kind": "definition", "id": "practice-and-participation-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes expected practice from observed participation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "practice-and-participation-q02" }, { "text": "What locally verified arrangements should an agent consider when scheduling an activity involving this community?", "kind": "action", "id": "practice-and-participation-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "authority-institutions-and-learning", "name": "Authority, institutions and learning", "description": "Maps religious leadership, collective bodies and settings for Islamic education within Chad.", "rationale": "An agent needs to identify relevant institutions and interlocutors without inventing a unified hierarchy.", "layers": [ { "id": "leadership-and-representation", "name": "Leadership and representation", "description": "Distinguishes institutional office, religious standing and representative mandate.", "findings": [ { "id": "bounded-authority", "name": "Bounded authority", "description": "Record each leader's or body's functions and constituency with separate evidence for official status and community recognition.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which Muslim leaders or bodies have a documented role in the relevant Chad locality or national activity?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "bounded-authority-q01" }, { "text": "Whom does each actor claim to represent, and who recognises or disputes that claim?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "bounded-authority-q02" }, { "text": "Who has a verified mandate to authorise or coordinate the specific proposed activity?", "kind": "action", "id": "bounded-authority-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "islamic-education", "name": "Islamic education", "description": "Describes locally documented religious teaching and its institutional relationships.", "findings": [ { "id": "teaching-pathways-and-oversight", "name": "Teaching pathways and oversight", "description": "Record teaching settings, content, languages, access and oversight without assuming equivalence to general schooling.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which forms of Islamic learning are documented in this part of Chad, and what do learners study in each?", "kind": "definition", "id": "teaching-pathways-and-oversight-q01" }, { "text": "Which languages are used for instruction and religious texts, and how does this affect access?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "teaching-pathways-and-oversight-q02" }, { "text": "What relationships to Chad's education authorities or qualification systems are evidenced for these settings?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "teaching-pathways-and-oversight-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "public-life-and-community-relations", "name": "Public life and community relations", "description": "Connects Islamic religious activity in Chad to public administration and relations with other communities.", "rationale": "Practical decisions require activity-specific evidence about regulation and social relationships, rather than broad national characterisations.", "layers": [ { "id": "state-and-religious-activity", "name": "State and religious activity", "description": "Separates formal legal provisions from administrative treatment of religious institutions and events.", "findings": [ { "id": "rules-and-implementation", "name": "Rules and implementation", "description": "Record dated requirements and implementation evidence for the religious activity under consideration.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which currently applicable Chadian instruments govern the named religious association, teaching activity or public gathering?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "rules-and-implementation-q01" }, { "text": "What local evidence shows how the relevant authorities implement those requirements?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "rules-and-implementation-q02" }, { "text": "What verified registration, notification or permission steps apply to the proposed activity?", "kind": "action", "id": "rules-and-implementation-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "intercommunity-relationships", "name": "Intercommunity relationships", "description": "Records specific cooperation, negotiation and disputes involving Muslim communities.", "findings": [ { "id": "situated-community-interactions", "name": "Situated community interactions", "description": "Attribute interactions to named participants, places and issues without treating religious identity as a sufficient explanation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which documented initiatives or disputes involve Muslim and other religious communities in the Chad locality concerned?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "situated-community-interactions-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence distinguishes religious issues from political, economic, ethnic or land-related dimensions of the interaction?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "situated-community-interactions-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "historical-change-and-cross-border-connections", "name": "Historical change and cross-border connections", "description": "Tracks how Islamic life within Chad changes over time and connects beyond the country.", "rationale": "Present-day national boundaries and institutions should not be projected backwards or used to erase wider religious relationships.", "layers": [ { "id": "historical-formation", "name": "Historical formation", "description": "Organises sourced accounts of religious transmission and institutional change by place and period.", "findings": [ { "id": "dated-local-transformations", "name": "Dated local transformations", "description": "Record evidence of changes in Islamic affiliation, learning, authority and practice while distinguishing historical territories from present-day Chad.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which sources establish the timing and pathways of Islamic religious development in the particular area now within Chad?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "dated-local-transformations-q01" }, { "text": "Where do historical territories or community networks differ from Chad's present boundaries?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "dated-local-transformations-q02" }, { "text": "Which claimed turning points are supported by contemporary records, later scholarship or oral accounts?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "dated-local-transformations-q03" } ] } ] }, { "id": "transnational-religious-links", "name": "Transnational religious links", "description": "Describes evidenced religious connections between people or institutions in Chad and counterparts elsewhere.", "findings": [ { "id": "connection-type-and-effects", "name": "Connection type and effects", "description": "Record the purposes, direction and demonstrated local effects of pilgrimage, study, institutional and other religious connections.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which cross-border religious connections are documented for the Chad communities or institutions being modelled?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "connection-type-and-effects-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence shows whether a connection affects teaching, resources, practice or authority within Chad?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "connection-type-and-effects-q02" }, { "text": "Does the evidence establish contact, support or decision-making control, and where does that inference stop?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "connection-type-and-effects-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "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 SOC.ORG classification should not imply that this topic has one legal identity, founding instrument or governing body.", "Population shares, denominational distributions and regional patterns require dated demographic sources; no numerical estimates are supplied.", "Specific religious authorities, current legal arrangements and the extent of individual Sufi orders require research; this description is based on recall." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Islam in Chad 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": [ "Sunni Islam", "Sufi traditions, including the Tijaniyya" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of Islam in Chad this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Congregational prayer and mosque-based community life", "Qur'anic education and religious scholarship", "Observance of Ramadan and Islamic festivals", "Charitable giving and mutual assistance", "Religious guidance for family and community life" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Islam in Chad 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": [ "Treating a national religious landscape as a single incorporated organisation", "Equating Muslim identity with a particular ethnicity, language or political allegiance", "Counting Sunni and Sufi affiliations as mutually exclusive categories", "Generalising the beliefs or conduct of particular groups to all Muslims in Chad" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Islam in Chad this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Muslim populations are historically concentrated in northern and eastern Chad, with communities also present elsewhere.", "Islamic practice reflects connections with the wider Sahel, Sudan and North Africa as well as local histories." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Islam in Chad this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Islam", "difference": "Islam is the worldwide religious tradition; Islam in Chad describes its geographically situated communities and expressions." }, { "name": "Religion in Chad", "difference": "Religion in Chad includes all religious traditions in the country; Islam in Chad concerns its Islamic component." }, { "name": "Muslims in Chad", "difference": "Muslims in Chad denotes people; Islam in Chad also encompasses teachings, practices, institutions and history." }, { "name": "Islamism in Chad", "difference": "Islamism concerns political projects invoking Islam; Islam in Chad includes religious life without implying a political programme." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Islam in Chad this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which sources provide the most defensible dated estimates of Muslim affiliation in Chad, and how do their definitions and geographic coverage differ?", "Which locally used religious tradition labels are adequately documented, and which commonly repeated classifications flatten or misrepresent community differences?", "Which Muslim bodies currently exercise official, coordinating or representative functions in Chad, and how closely do their mandates match community recognition?", "How do access to Islamic learning and participation in religious institutions vary by locality, language, gender, age and mobility?", "Which historical accounts and cross-border connections are sufficiently evidenced to explain local change without projecting present-day borders or presumed external influence onto the past?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 16, "questions": 33 } }