{ "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "research-draft", "adjudicationStatus": "unreviewed", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-09-12T10:11:35Z", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "breadth": "recalled by Codex without web access - no source was read", "missingProviders": [], "pass": 2, "cost": { "grok": { "seconds": 21.0, "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: 01a09518-d33a-7480-a77a-ad89e3adf251\n--------\nuser\nDescribe what is already known about one registered thing. 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"Thing Registry", "domain": [ "ACT.ACT" ], "status": "research-draft" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/thing/q810592/", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.tr.handicraft-q810592", "name": "handicraft", "purpose": "Enable an AI agent to recognise a handicraft practice, assess its making process and outcomes, and identify appropriate support, continuation or adaptation.", "definition": "Handicraft is a hobby involving the skilled making or finishing of small-scale useful or decorative objects chiefly by hand or with hand-guided tools, with the maker's manual contribution substantially determining the finished object.", "scope_statement": "This model owns handicraft as a hobby involving skilled manual transformation of materials into small-scale articles, recording the maker's control, techniques, material constraints and criteria of accomplishment while leaving disputed boundaries explicit.", "in_scope": [ "Criteria for recognising a hobby making small-scale objects as handicraft include contested cases involving machinery or digital fabrication.", "The activity encompasses manual operations, tools and material transformations.", "Relevant aspects include practical skill, learning, judgement and maker participation.", "Workmanship is assessed against intended use and maker or community expectations.", "Transmission, attribution and permissions matter where a practice has a cultural or collective context." ], "out_of_scope": [ "Complete physical descriptions and lifecycle records of individual finished articles", "General material chemistry and manufacturing specifications", "Industrial production systems beyond their relationship to the craft process", "Occupational qualifications and employment conditions of craft workers", "General art criticism, commercial valuation and heritage designation procedures" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Identify which operations depend on a maker's manual skill and judgement; purchasing or reselling a handmade article does not itself constitute handicraft.", "Examine who controls the article's form and finish during making; ownership of a machine or selection of a preset alone does not establish craft participation.", "Identify material-working operations such as weaving, carving, stitching or modelling; a design file or verbal instruction alone does not demonstrate the making activity.", "The activity must be a hobby making small-scale objects in this sense, while artistic purpose or occasional sales alone do not determine whether that criterion is met.", "For kit assembly and heavily mechanised work, record the applicable definition and evidence rather than treating either inclusion or exclusion as automatic." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Craft medium and technique", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Locally named practice plus material and technique descriptors, such as basket weaving, wood carving or hand embroidery", "why_it_matters": "Determines which operations, tools and workmanship criteria are relevant." }, { "name": "Manual and machine participation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Per operation: direct handwork, hand-tool work, manually controlled powered work, automated work, mixed or unknown", "why_it_matters": "Makes claims about handmade production inspectable without assuming one universal threshold." }, { "name": "Maker control", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Maker or collaborator linked to decisions about pattern, shaping, joining, decoration and finishing", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes practical authorship and execution from nominal involvement." }, { "name": "Material readiness", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Unassessed, requires preparation, workable for the next operation, unsuitable or exhausted; technique-specific evidence", "why_it_matters": "The same material can support or prevent an operation depending on its condition." }, { "name": "Making stage", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Planning, material preparation, forming, joining, decorating, finishing, assessment, rework or complete; stages may repeat or be omitted", "why_it_matters": "Supports decisions about the next feasible operation." }, { "name": "Workmanship assessment", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "Unassessed, meets stated criteria, requires rework or unsuitable for intended use, with assessor and evidence", "why_it_matters": "Grounds quality judgements in explicit expectations rather than appearance alone." }, { "name": "Active making time", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "Hours per article or batch, with preparation, waiting and rework distinguished", "why_it_matters": "Supports realistic planning and comparison of process alternatives." }, { "name": "Practice lineage and permissions", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to teachers, communities, pattern sources and stated permissions or restrictions; unknown where unverified", "why_it_matters": "Supports attribution and decisions about teaching, adaptation and sharing." } ], "affordances": [ "Assess whether a documented making activity fits an explicitly chosen definition of handicraft.", "Plan a sequence of craft operations suited to the available materials, tools and demonstrated skills.", "Identify a material condition or workmanship issue and propose a practice-appropriate trial or rework step.", "Compare hand, powered and automated process alternatives while showing their effects on maker control.", "Document a technique for learning while identifying judgement that still requires demonstration or supervised practice.", "Check attribution and known permissions before reproducing or sharing patterns and culturally situated techniques." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Describe crafts, their techniques and traditions from reliable sources.", "Help makers document and price their work at their request." ], "must_not": [ "Present machine-made goods as handmade.", "Copy a maker's designs or traditional patterns for sale without permission.", "Encourage use of sharp tools, kilns or chemicals without the safety precautions they need." ], "requires_human": [ "Selling or licensing a maker's work on their behalf." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Handmade labels carry value that buyers and makers rely on.", "Traditional designs often belong to communities that should be credited." ], "affected_parties": [ "Makers", "Buyers", "Craft communities" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "The maker of each object; communities hold their traditional designs.", "master_systems": [] }, "what_it_is_for": [ "Handicraft is practised in homes, schools, community workshops and hobby groups to make useful or decorative objects.", "Activities such as knitting, weaving, pottery and woodcarving support recreation, skill development, personal expression and the transmission of traditions." ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Sharp tools, hot equipment and moving parts can cause cuts, burns or other injuries.", "Dust, fumes and some craft materials can cause irritation, allergic reactions or harmful exposure.", "Repetitive movements and sustained awkward postures can contribute to musculoskeletal strain.", "Poorly constructed objects can break or create choking, fire or load-bearing hazards during use." ], "facets_not_applicable": { "interfaces": "No single standard or regulation applies to handicraft as a general hobby because applicable requirements depend on the materials, products and jurisdiction.", "recognition": "Handicraft is a making activity whose defining manual contribution cannot be reliably established from an object's appearance alone." } }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q810592: handicraft", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q810592", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Arts and crafts", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arts_and_crafts", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "craft-identity-and-boundaries", "name": "Craft identity and boundaries", "description": "Records what makes the activity handicraft and which interpretation supports that classification.", "rationale": "Labels such as handmade, craft and artisanal can conceal different expectations about manual participation and authorship.", "layers": [ { "id": "definition-and-instance", "name": "Definition and instance", "description": "Connects a stated meaning of handicraft to an observed making activity.", "findings": [ { "id": "basis-for-craft-classification", "name": "Basis for craft classification", "description": "Record the definition being applied, who uses it and the operations offered as evidence.", "questions": [ { "text": "Whose definition of handicraft is being used, and what manual skill or material transformation does it require?", "kind": "definition", "id": "basis-for-craft-classification-q01" }, { "text": "Which observed operations establish that this instance involves making rather than only designing, selecting or reselling?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "basis-for-craft-classification-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "mechanisation-and-authorship", "name": "Mechanisation and authorship", "description": "Examines the contribution of tools, automation, prefabricated components and collaborators.", "findings": [ { "id": "distribution-of-making-control", "name": "Distribution of making control", "description": "Record who or what determines the article's form and finish at each consequential operation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which shaping, joining or finishing decisions does the maker adjust during execution, and which are fixed by a kit, machine or supplied component?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "distribution-of-making-control-q01" }, { "text": "Under the selected definition, how does this distribution of control affect the handicraft classification?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "distribution-of-making-control-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "materials-and-transformation", "name": "Materials and transformation", "description": "Describes how material condition and operation sequence constrain the making process.", "rationale": "A craft plan must account for the behaviour of the actual material and the consequences of each transformation.", "layers": [ { "id": "stock-selection-and-preparation", "name": "Stock selection and preparation", "description": "Records suitability and preparation of the material for the intended technique.", "findings": [ { "id": "workable-material-condition", "name": "Workable material condition", "description": "Identify the material properties and preparation checks relevant to the next operation.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which properties must be checked for this technique, such as grain direction, fibre strength, thickness, moisture or clay plasticity?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "workable-material-condition-q01" }, { "text": "What preparation or sample trial is needed before cutting, bending, stitching, weaving or forming the main workpiece?", "kind": "action", "id": "workable-material-condition-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "operation-sequence-and-recovery", "name": "Operation sequence and recovery", "description": "Tracks dependencies, intermediate states and opportunities to correct errors.", "findings": [ { "id": "consequential-process-steps", "name": "Consequential process steps", "description": "Record operation order and points where material removal, joining or finishing limits later correction.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which steps depend on earlier dimensions, tension, alignment, drying or setting, and what evidence shows readiness to proceed?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "consequential-process-steps-q01" }, { "text": "Before an irreversible cut, firing or bonded joint, what check or trial should the maker perform?", "kind": "action", "id": "consequential-process-steps-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "skill-and-workshop-practice", "name": "Skill and workshop practice", "description": "Records the practical capabilities and working arrangements required to execute the craft.", "rationale": "Instructions alone may omit the sensory judgement and tool handling needed for successful making.", "layers": [ { "id": "embodied-judgement", "name": "Embodied judgement", "description": "Identifies sensory cues and adjustments used during skilled operations.", "findings": [ { "id": "observable-skill-and-learning-needs", "name": "Observable skill and learning needs", "description": "Record demonstrated capability and the aspects of technique requiring further practice or teaching.", "questions": [ { "text": "What does the maker judge by touch, sight or sound, such as thread tension, cutting resistance or surface readiness?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "observable-skill-and-learning-needs-q01" }, { "text": "Which sample exercise or demonstration would establish readiness for the intended workpiece?", "kind": "action", "id": "observable-skill-and-learning-needs-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "tools-and-working-conditions", "name": "Tools and working conditions", "description": "Connects tool condition and workspace arrangements to particular craft operations.", "findings": [ { "id": "operation-ready-workstation", "name": "Operation-ready workstation", "description": "Record the setup needed to control tools and materials during the planned operation.", "questions": [ { "text": "What tool condition, work holding, lighting or workspace arrangement does this operation require?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "operation-ready-workstation-q01" }, { "text": "What setup changes or verified guidance are needed for the specific blades, dust, heat or finishing substances involved?", "kind": "action", "id": "operation-ready-workstation-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "workmanship-and-completion", "name": "Workmanship and completion", "description": "Makes the intended result and the evidence for accepting or reworking it explicit.", "rationale": "Handmade variation needs to be judged against the purpose and expectations of the particular craft rather than a universal demand for uniformity.", "layers": [ { "id": "intended-result", "name": "Intended result", "description": "Records functional, visual and tactile expectations that guide making.", "findings": [ { "id": "craft-specific-acceptance-criteria", "name": "Craft-specific acceptance criteria", "description": "Identify what the maker, recipient or relevant practice considers successful workmanship.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which criteria matter for this article, such as seam strength, weave stability, joint fit, surface feel or fidelity to a pattern?", "kind": "definition", "id": "craft-specific-acceptance-criteria-q01" }, { "text": "Who distinguishes acceptable hand variation from a defect, and on what basis?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "craft-specific-acceptance-criteria-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "inspection-and-rework", "name": "Inspection and rework", "description": "Connects observed results to completion, correction or a change of intended use.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-for-completion", "name": "Evidence for completion", "description": "Record inspection results and feasible responses to unmet criteria.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which inspection or use-appropriate test demonstrates that the finished work meets its stated criteria?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "evidence-for-completion-q01" }, { "text": "If it fails, can it be unpicked, reshaped, refinished or otherwise reworked without undermining its intended use?", "kind": "action", "id": "evidence-for-completion-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "transmission-and-cultural-context", "name": "Transmission and cultural context", "description": "Records where craft knowledge comes from and how it may be taught, adapted or represented.", "rationale": "Some practices involve inherited knowledge or collective expectations, while others have no established cultural lineage; the model must distinguish these cases.", "layers": [ { "id": "knowledge-and-pattern-provenance", "name": "Knowledge and pattern provenance", "description": "Traces techniques, motifs and patterns without presuming that every craft practice is traditional.", "findings": [ { "id": "documented-learning-and-design-sources", "name": "Documented learning and design sources", "description": "Record teachers, references and adaptations underlying the making activity.", "questions": [ { "text": "From whom or what did the maker learn the technique and obtain the pattern or motif?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-learning-and-design-sources-q01" }, { "text": "Which elements are inherited, independently developed or adapted, and what supports that account?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "documented-learning-and-design-sources-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "sharing-and-adaptation", "name": "Sharing and adaptation", "description": "Records known expectations and unresolved permissions surrounding transmission and representation.", "findings": [ { "id": "conditions-for-reuse-and-representation", "name": "Conditions for reuse and representation", "description": "Identify evidenced conditions affecting reproduction, teaching and claims of cultural affiliation.", "questions": [ { "text": "What permissions, attribution requirements or community protocols have been established for sharing this pattern or technique, and by whom?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "conditions-for-reuse-and-representation-q01" }, { "text": "What must be clarified before teaching, commercial reproduction or describing the work as belonging to a named tradition?", "kind": "action", "id": "conditions-for-reuse-and-representation-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": [ "The ACT.ACT domain suggests the activity sense, but the registry should confirm this because handicraft can also denote its products.", "There is no universally accepted threshold for permitted machinery or required manual contribution.", "This is recall-based; jurisdiction-specific product rules and claims of cultural provenance require checking." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of handicraft 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": [ "Textile crafts, including weaving and embroidery", "Basketry", "Pottery and ceramic crafts", "Woodworking and carving", "Leatherworking", "Metalworking and jewellery making" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of handicraft this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "UNESCO's 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage includes traditional craftsmanship; its focus is safeguarding knowledge and skills rather than certifying handmade products." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of handicraft 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": [ "Producing household goods, clothing, furnishings and decorative objects", "Supporting artisan livelihoods through local markets, commissions and tourism", "Transmitting cultural knowledge and practical skills through apprenticeship and community practice", "Making and maintaining objects for ceremonies and customary practices", "Providing recreational and educational making activities" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of handicraft 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": [ "Cuts, burns, dust exposure or chemical exposure, depending on tools and materials", "Repetitive strain and poor working posture during prolonged manual work", "Material or construction defects that impair durability or safety", "Loss of specialised knowledge when teaching and apprenticeship cease", "Misrepresentation of factory-produced goods as handmade or traditionally produced" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of handicraft 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": [ "Materials, techniques and motifs vary with local resources, histories and cultural practices.", "Legal and commercial definitions of artisan or handicraft production differ in how they treat machinery, workshop size and manual contribution.", "The boundaries among handicraft, fine art and design vary across cultural and institutional settings." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of handicraft 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": "Craft", "difference": "Craft also denotes skilled practice in activities such as writing; handicraft specifically concerns manually making or finishing material objects." }, { "name": "Industrial manufacturing", "difference": "Handicraft depends substantially on the maker's manual skill in shaping each object; industrial manufacturing generally depends more on mechanised, standardised processes, although hybrid production exists." }, { "name": "Fine art", "difference": "Fine art is classified chiefly through artistic purpose and institutional context, whereas handicraft is classified through skilled material making; an object can belong to both." }, { "name": "Traditional craftsmanship", "difference": "Traditional craftsmanship involves knowledge and skills transmitted within a cultural tradition; handicraft also includes newly developed techniques and individual recreational work." }, { "name": "Handicraft object", "difference": "The object is the material product; handicraft in the activity sense is the practice that produces it." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of handicraft this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Does the registry intend handicraft to denote the making activity alone, or also the resulting articles and the collective category of crafts?", "Which definitions should govern disputed cases involving powered tools, digital fabrication, prefabricated kits and distributed production?", "Which existing Vercy models cover craft, making, artisanal production or traditional craftsmanship, and where should this entry link rather than duplicate them?", "Which craft practitioners and documented sources should establish technique-specific workmanship criteria and acceptable variation?", "How should conflicting accounts of cultural affiliation, authority to grant permission or restrictions on transmission be represented?" ], "statistics": { "bundles": 6, "layers": 11, "findings": 17, "questions": 27 } }