{ "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T09:22:59Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 16.3, "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: 01a094ec-8163-7e83-8898-cfa0f8abcf7b\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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recognise and assess an early bird provisionally understood as a person with a recurring preference for earlier sleep and waking times, while distinguishing that preference from imposed schedules.", "definition": "An early bird is, in ordinary usage, a person who habitually wakes and becomes active early, often associated with a morning chronotype rather than a distinct biological taxon.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the identification, timing, contextual assessment and practical accommodation of an individual's early sleep-wake preference; this interpretation remains provisional because vr.tr.early-bird has no recorded definition.", "in_scope": [ "Evidence that the registry name denotes a person with an early sleep-wake preference", "Preferred and observed sleep, waking and activity times", "Differences between freely chosen timing and externally required timing", "Persistence and variation of the early pattern across observation periods", "Individual preferences for 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intends.", "Compare preferred and observed sleep timing across constrained and unconstrained days.", "Assign a provisional early-pattern classification using an explicit criterion and observation period.", "Suggest meeting or activity windows consistent with the individual's stated preferences.", "Reassess the classification when schedules, location or reported preferences change." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Explain what early bird means in everyday speech and how it relates to morning chronotypes.", "Schedule tasks around a person's stated preference for early hours when asked." ], "must_not": [ "Label a person as an early bird or a night owl from tracked activity without their knowledge.", "Present early rising as a sign of moral worth or of laziness in those who rise later.", "Treat the phrase as a biological species or taxon.", "Use a person's sleep pattern for decisions about their employment or insurance without consent." ], "requires_human": [ "Drawing conclusions about a person's health from their sleep schedule." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Societies often reward early risers and stigmatize people with later body clocks.", "Sleep and activity data are personal and can reveal health information." ], "affected_parties": [ "People with late chronotypes", "Shift workers", "Teenagers" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "Nobody owns it; it describes a habit of the person who has it.", "master_systems": [] }, "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Forcing early schedules on people with late body clocks can cause chronic sleep loss.", "The label can be misused to judge character or productivity." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "This term describes a person who habitually prefers earlier sleeping, waking and activity times.", "It is used in everyday scheduling and discussions of sleep patterns, where a stable preference must be distinguished from work requirements or other imposed routines." ], "facets_not_applicable": { "interfaces": "This ordinary description of a sleep timing preference has no formal standard or official classification that directly defines the label.", "recognition": "A morning preference cannot be established from physical appearance or a single observation of early waking." } }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q6489550: early bird", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6489550", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Lark (person)", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lark_%28person%29", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "early-bird-meaning", "name": "Early bird meaning", "description": "Establish whether this entry denotes a human timing preference and define the boundary of that interpretation.", "rationale": "The name is ambiguous, and the living-organism domain alone 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"name": "Chosen versus recorded sleep", "description": "Keep desired sleep timing distinct from diary, device or other recorded timing.", "questions": [ { "text": "When would the individual choose to fall asleep and wake without an alarm or next-day obligation?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "chosen-versus-recorded-sleep-q01" }, { "text": "What sleep-onset and waking times were observed, on which dates, in which time zone and by what method?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "chosen-versus-recorded-sleep-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "earliness-and-activity", "name": "Earliness and activity", "description": "Define the comparison that establishes earliness and separately capture preferred activity windows.", "findings": [ { "id": "explicit-earliness-reference", "name": "Explicit earliness reference", "description": "Do not infer a universal waking-time cutoff or equate early waking with measured morning ability.", "questions": [ { "text": "Relative to which schedule, comparison group or assessment criterion does this timing count as early?", "kind": "definition", "id": "explicit-earliness-reference-q01" }, { "text": "During which hours does the individual prefer particular activities, and is that preference self-reported or supported by observations?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "explicit-earliness-reference-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "persistence-and-constraints", "name": "Persistence and constraints", "description": "Assess whether the early pattern recurs and how obligations or changing circumstances shape the evidence.", "rationale": "An early alarm or temporary schedule does not by itself establish an early preference.", "layers": [ { "id": "obligation-comparison", "name": "Obligation comparison", "description": "Compare timing under different levels of schedule freedom.", "findings": [ { "id": "imposed-versus-preferred-earliness", "name": "Imposed versus preferred earliness", "description": "Identify circumstances that require early waking and observations 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"Which changes in location, schedule or reported preference coincide with a change in the observed pattern?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "recurrence-and-change-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "schedule-fit-and-use", "name": "Schedule fit and use", "description": "Translate the individual's timing evidence into appropriate scheduling choices and explicit limits on interpretation.", "rationale": "The model must support useful action without treating a timing label as a diagnosis or a mandate.", "layers": [ { "id": "experienced-fit", "name": "Experienced fit", "description": "Record whether the individual welcomes the pattern and whether it fits their obligations.", "findings": [ { "id": "preference-versus-unwanted-waking", "name": "Preference versus unwanted waking", "description": "Keep a desired early schedule distinguishable from unwanted early waking or reported sleep difficulty.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the individual prefer this waking time, or report waking earlier than they want?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "preference-versus-unwanted-waking-q01" }, { "text": "Does the individual report that the schedule permits enough sleep and fits their daily obligations?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "preference-versus-unwanted-waking-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "timing-accommodation", "name": "Timing accommodation", "description": "Use current preferences to propose suitable activity windows and revise them when evidence changes.", "findings": [ { "id": "individual-approved-scheduling", "name": "Individual-approved scheduling", "description": "Base accommodations on the person's expressed choices and availability rather than the label alone.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which meeting or activity windows does the individual want an agent to prioritise?", "kind": "action", "id": "individual-approved-scheduling-q01" }, { "text": "What change in preference or circumstances should trigger reassessment of those windows and the early-bird attribution?", "kind": "action", "id": "individual-approved-scheduling-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 common meaning of an early-rising person is assumed.", "PHY.LIV does not establish that this label denotes a species; verify the originating registry record before assigning taxonomy identifiers.", "Early bird can also mean someone who arrives or acts ahead of others, without implying a sleep preference." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of early bird 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": [ "Informal description of a person's sleep-wake preferences.", "Discussion of how work or study schedules align with preferred waking and activity times." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of early bird this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Habitual waking time", "typical_range": "No universal clock-time boundary defines an early bird.", "unit": "Local clock time" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of early bird 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 early waking schedule imposed by work or caregiving as evidence of an intrinsic morning chronotype.", "Confusing preferred early waking with unwanted early awakening or insufficient sleep." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of early bird this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": 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