{ "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T11:43:04Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 20.8, "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: 01a0956c-a258-7a22-a87e-f2b2dcd6d501\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: officer\nSense to describe: (none recorded)\nDomain code: SOC.PER\nAlso known as: (none)\n\n\nContext for this batch of 1001 things:\n# Batch 044: 1001 registe", "usd": 0.0, "recall": true }, "codex": { "seconds": 64.7, "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: 01a0956c-a254-7900-8e58-403e76df3742\n--------\nuser\nYou are drafting a Vercy meta-model for one registered thing. Answer as JSON only, no prose around it.\n\nThing: officer\nRegistry id: vr.tr.officer\nPlane / domain: SOC / SOC.PER\nRegistry definition: (none recorded)\nNames folded into this entry: (none)\n\n\nContext " } }, "enrichment": { "pass": 3, "engine": "claude", "producedAt": "2026-10-06T12:00:00Z", "ingestedAt": "2026-10-06T08:58:11+00:00", "fields": [ "agent_conduct", "ethics", "failure_modes_and_hazards", "owners", "visual_identification" ] } }, "metaModel": { "id": "THING-Q61022630", "registryId": "vr.tr.officer", "name": "officer", "version": "0.1.0-research.1", "entryKind": "thing", "family": "Thing Registry", "domain": [ "SOC.PER" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q61022630/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.officer", "name": "officer", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognise an officer role, establish who validly holds it, assess its authority and obligations, and determine which actions require further verification.", "definition": "An officer is a person holding a formally recognized position of authority or responsibility within an organization or public service, with powers and duties determined by that position.", "scope_statement": "This model owns officer as a formally recognised institutional role and the conditions under which a person holds and exercises that role; the intended registry sense remains unresolved, so military, policing, public-administration and organisational uses must be distinguished.", "in_scope": [ "Officer role identity, institutional setting and applicable jurisdiction", "Appointment, election, commission or other basis for holding the role", "Powers, duties, reporting relationships and limits of authority", "Qualifications, eligibility and any applicable licensing requirements", "Tenure, availability for duty, suspension and cessation", "Accountability, delegation and evidence of authorised action" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The personal identity and biography of an officer holder", "The complete structure and governance of the employing or appointing organisation", "Generic employment contracts, payroll and recruitment advertisements", "Detailed models of military operations, policing incidents or corporate transactions", "The full legal instruments that create offices or confer powers" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "An officer designation must be tied to an identified institution and role; the word in a title alone does not establish powers.", "Holding an officer role is distinct from being employed by the institution; employment evidence alone does not establish appointment.", "Rank, grade and officer role must be separable: a rank label does not by itself identify the current office or assignment.", "Authority must be attributable to a specific mandate, appointment or delegation rather than inferred from seniority or managerial duties.", "The role must remain distinguishable from its holder, allowing vacancies, succession and multiple appointments to be represented." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Officer sense", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Military; policing; public administration; organisational governance; another documented sense; unresolved", "why_it_matters": "The intended sense determines which evidence, powers and eligibility conditions need investigation." }, { "name": "Constituting institution", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Institution recognising the role, with the source of that recognition", "why_it_matters": "An officer designation has meaning within a particular institutional context." }, { "name": "Authority basis", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Applicable instrument, appointment record, commission, resolution or delegation", "why_it_matters": "Supports verification of the role and prevents a title from being treated as sufficient authority." }, { "name": "Role holder", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Person linked to a dated appointment or other qualifying tenure record", "why_it_matters": "Separates the officer role from the person and preserves succession history." }, { "name": "Holding status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Proposed; pending confirmation; current; suspended; ended; disputed; unknown, subject to institutional terminology", "why_it_matters": "Controls whether an agent can rely on the person's present claim to the role." }, { "name": "Capacity", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Substantive; acting; interim; deputy; honorary; another documented capacity; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Different capacities may carry different powers and tenure conditions." }, { "name": "Authority scope", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Permitted acts linked to subjects, territory, organisational units, conditions and exclusions", "why_it_matters": "Determines whether a particular action falls within the officer's mandate." }, { "name": "Eligibility status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Verified eligible; conditionally eligible; unmet requirement; expired evidence; disputed; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes possession of a title from satisfaction of applicable role requirements." }, { "name": "Rank or grade", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Named institutional rank or grade, where applicable, with effective dates", "why_it_matters": "Allows hierarchy to be recorded without substituting rank for an appointment or mandate." }, { "name": "Tenure interval", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Start and end timestamps, including timezone and date precision where relevant", "why_it_matters": "Supports checking whether the role was held when an action occurred." } ], "affordances": [ "Disambiguate an officer designation using its institution, mandate and documented usage.", "Verify a person's current claim to hold an officer role against appointment and cessation evidence.", "Evaluate whether a proposed act lies within documented powers and applicable restrictions.", "Identify missing qualification, licensing, appointment or delegation evidence.", "Route approvals, exceptions and accountability questions to the appropriate supervising authority.", "Track succession, suspension and acting arrangements without conflating the role with its holders." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Identify an officer by name and role from official sources for legitimate contact.", "Help an officer carry out their duties when they have authorized the task." ], "must_not": [ "Impersonate an officer of any organization or public service.", "Act on orders claimed to come from an officer without verifying them.", "Publish an officer's home address or family details.", "Help an officer exceed or abuse the powers of their position." ], "requires_human": [ "Acting on an officer's instruction that affects a person's rights or liberty." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Officers hold power over others; accountability protects the public.", "Officers are also people with a right to privacy and safety." ], "affected_parties": [ "People subject to the officer's authority", "The officer and their family", "The organization" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "The organization or public service that appoints the officer.", "master_systems": [ "Company officer registers", "Public service appointment records" ] }, "visual_identification": [ "Insignia, uniform, badge or official identification of rank or office.", "Named in official registers or appointment notices." ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Impersonation of officers is used in fraud and crime.", "Abuse of official powers harms the people subject to them." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q61022630: officer", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61022630", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Officer", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Officer", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "officer-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Officer identity and boundaries", "description": "Establish which officer concept is meant and distinguish the role from its holder, rank and employment.", "rationale": "Officer is an ambiguous designation whose institutional meaning must be established before authority can be assessed.", "layers": [ { "id": "institutional-sense", "name": "Institutional sense", "description": "Resolve the officer designation against documented institutional usage.", "findings": [ { "id": "officer-designation", "name": "Officer designation", "description": "Record the institution's exact designation and the evidence supporting its interpretation.", "questions": [ { "text": "What does officer mean in this institution, and which exact role title is being modelled?", "kind": "definition", "id": "officer-designation-q01" }, { "text": "Which institutional or authoritative source establishes that meaning?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "officer-designation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "role-holder-and-rank", "name": "Role, holder and rank", "description": "Separate the officer role from related personal and organisational concepts.", "findings": [ { "id": "separate-role-from-associated-status", "name": "Separate role from associated status", "description": "Identify whether a supplied designation describes an office, a rank, an assignment, employment or a person.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does this record identify an officer role, its current holder, a rank or a temporary assignment?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "separate-role-from-associated-status-q01" }, { "text": "Can the role be vacant or change holders while retaining its institutional identity?", "kind": "definition", "id": "separate-role-from-associated-status-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "appointment-and-tenure", "name": "Appointment and tenure", "description": "Establish how the role is conferred, when it is held and how holding it ends.", "rationale": "An officer's title cannot establish whether a particular person validly held the role at the relevant time.", "layers": [ { "id": "entry-into-office", "name": "Entry into office", "description": "Capture the conferring authority, process and effective conditions.", "findings": [ { "id": "valid-conferral", "name": "Valid conferral", "description": "Record the appointment, election, commission or other documented mechanism and any conditions before it takes effect.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who can confer this officer role, and what record shows that the required process occurred?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "valid-conferral-q01" }, { "text": "What confirmation, acceptance, oath or other condition, if any, must occur before the holder may exercise the role?", "kind": "action", "id": "valid-conferral-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "continuity-and-cessation", "name": "Continuity and cessation", "description": "Track effective tenure and distinguish interruptions from termination.", "findings": [ { "id": "effective-holding-status", "name": "Effective holding status", "description": "Record dated changes in holding status, including disputed changes and temporary replacement.", "questions": [ { "text": "At what dates did the holding begin, become restricted or suspended, resume, or end?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "effective-holding-status-q01" }, { "text": "Does an acting appointment replace the holder, cover an absence or authorise only specified duties?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "effective-holding-status-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "powers-and-command", "name": "Powers and command", "description": "Describe what the officer can decide, direct, approve or represent and under which conditions.", "rationale": "Officer status is insufficient to authorise an action without a defined mandate and applicable limits.", "layers": [ { "id": "mandated-powers", "name": "Mandated powers", "description": "Connect each claimed power to its basis and operational limits.", "findings": [ { "id": "action-specific-authority", "name": "Action-specific authority", "description": "Record powers individually with their territorial, subject, financial, temporal or other applicable boundaries.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which source grants this officer the particular power being relied upon?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "action-specific-authority-q01" }, { "text": "Does the proposed act satisfy the power's subject, territory, timing, approval and other conditions?", "kind": "action", "id": "action-specific-authority-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "direction-and-delegation", "name": "Direction and delegation", "description": "Distinguish supervisory relationships from authority transferred through delegation.", "findings": [ { "id": "authority-chain", "name": "Authority chain", "description": "Record who may direct the officer, what may be delegated and which responsibilities remain with the original holder.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who may issue binding directions to this officer for the activity concerned?", "kind": "definition", "id": "authority-chain-q01" }, { "text": "May this power be delegated or subdelegated, and what evidence establishes the recipient's current authority?", "kind": "action", "id": "authority-chain-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "eligibility-and-duty-readiness", "name": "Eligibility and duty readiness", "description": "Assess requirements for holding the role separately from conditions for performing a particular duty.", "rationale": "Appointment, qualification and readiness answer different questions and may change independently.", "layers": [ { "id": "entry-and-continuing-requirements", "name": "Entry and continuing requirements", "description": "Identify qualifications and eligibility conditions specific to the officer role and jurisdiction.", "findings": [ { "id": "applicable-eligibility", "name": "Applicable eligibility", "description": "Record actual requirements without assuming every officer role is a licensed occupation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which qualifications, experience, clearances, licences or other eligibility conditions apply to this exact role?", "kind": "definition", "id": "applicable-eligibility-q01" }, { "text": "Which authority sets each requirement, and what evidence establishes current compliance?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "applicable-eligibility-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "permission-to-perform-duty", "name": "Permission to perform duty", "description": "Assess duty-specific restrictions affecting a current role holder.", "findings": [ { "id": "current-duty-constraints", "name": "Current duty constraints", "description": "Represent restrictions such as lapsed certification, limited assignment or suspended access without automatically treating tenure as ended.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which current restrictions prevent or condition this officer's performance of the proposed duty?", "kind": "action", "id": "current-duty-constraints-q01" }, { "text": "Does the restriction affect a particular duty, all exercise of authority or the holding of the role itself?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "current-duty-constraints-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "obligations-and-accountability", "name": "Obligations and accountability", "description": "Connect officer conduct to role-specific duties, conflicts, oversight and review.", "rationale": "Assessing what an officer may do also requires identifying what the role requires and how its exercise is checked.", "layers": [ { "id": "duties-and-conflicts", "name": "Duties and conflicts", "description": "Establish mandatory responsibilities and conditions requiring disclosure, recusal or escalation.", "findings": [ { "id": "role-specific-obligations", "name": "Role-specific obligations", "description": "Record duties owed through the officer role and any conflict rules applicable to an intended action.", "questions": [ { "text": "What duties does this officer owe, to whom, and under which documented mandate?", "kind": "definition", "id": "role-specific-obligations-q01" }, { "text": "Does this situation require disclosure, recusal, refusal or referral, and who determines the next step?", "kind": "action", "id": "role-specific-obligations-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "oversight-and-action-evidence", "name": "Oversight and action evidence", "description": "Identify review authorities and evidence connecting an act to the capacity in which the officer acted.", "findings": [ { "id": "reviewable-exercise-of-office", "name": "Reviewable exercise of office", "description": "Link officer actions to contemporaneous authority, required records and the relevant review route.", "questions": [ { "text": "What record establishes the officer's identity, capacity and authority at the time of the act?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "reviewable-exercise-of-office-q01" }, { "text": "Which body may review the act or the officer's conduct, and what triggers referral?", "kind": "action", "id": "reviewable-exercise-of-office-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": [ "No sense is recorded: the intended entry could concern officers generally or a narrower military, police, corporate or public-service meaning.", "The definition follows the person-holder sense; a role model should distinguish the office, its duties and its successive holders.", "No sources were consulted; specific powers, qualifications, licensing requirements and occupational codes require the officer type and jurisdiction to be established first." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of officer 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": [ "Military officer", "Police officer", "Corporate officer", "Public officer", "Officer of an association", "Merchant marine officer" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of officer this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-identifiers", "name": "Identifiers and schemes", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "scheme": "ISCO-08 - International Standard Classification of Occupations", "value_or_pattern": "Four-digit unit-group code", "note": "Maintained by the International Labour Organization; classification depends on actual duties and occupational context, and 'officer' alone does not identify one occupation." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-identifiers-q01", "text": "Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of officer 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": [ "Assigning institutional authority and responsibility to a named position holder.", "Establishing reporting relationships and command responsibilities.", "Identifying people authorized to represent an organization or approve specified actions.", "Recording appointments, terms of office and succession." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of officer 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 an officer title as proof of powers that the position does not confer.", "Confusing the individual with the office, obscuring which responsibilities persist after a change of holder.", "Assuming qualifications or credentials transfer between unrelated officer roles.", "Unclear delegation or overlapping authority causing accountability gaps." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of officer 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": [ "Military distinctions between commissioned, warrant and non-commissioned officers vary across armed forces.", "Police titles, ranks and appointment requirements vary by jurisdiction and agency.", "Corporate and association officer titles and responsibilities vary with jurisdiction and governing documents." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of officer 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": "office", "difference": "The office is the institutional position; the officer is its holder." }, { "name": "official", "difference": "An official performs an authorized institutional function; whether that person is designated an officer depends on the institution's terminology and rules." }, { "name": "employee", "difference": "Employee describes an employment relationship; officer describes a position, and holding an office does not necessarily establish employment." }, { "name": "director", "difference": "In corporate usage, a director holds a board position; an officer holds a designated organizational office, although one person may hold both." }, { "name": "rank", "difference": "Rank is a grade within a hierarchy; officer denotes a holder or category of position rather than the grade itself." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of officer this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does vr.tr.officer denote a broad institutional role or a narrower sense such as military officer, and what registry provenance resolves this?", "Does an existing Vercy world model already cover the intended officer concept, requiring a registry link instead of a separate publication?", "Which distinctions between officer, office-holder, official, rank-holder and employee are supported by the intended institution's terminology?", "Which jurisdictions and institutions should provide the initial researched examples of appointment, powers, qualifications and cessation?", "Which ISCO, SOC or ESCO classifications, if any, match the resolved sense rather than merely sharing the word officer?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 17, "questions": 27 } }