# Vercy AI instruction - YAML 1.2 (JSON-compatible) { "vercy": "1.0-draft", "publication": { "status": "published", "adjudicationStatus": "reviewable-draft", "publishableCanonical": false, "generatedAt": "2026-10-07T08:46:04Z", "synthesisSha256": "09ef332cb2f7d48aa1e0a1f506b1fb4193aba66b3a36e08c7446d5dea3fb6bbd", "providerMode": "single-provider-waiver", "providers": [ "Codex" ], "waivedProviders": [ "Claude", "Grok" ] }, "metaModel": { "id": "WM-LIV-005", "registryId": "vr.wm-liv-005", "name": "Wildlife", "version": "0.1.0-reviewable-draft", "previousVersions": [ { "version": "0.2.0-legacy", "url": "https://github.com/ver-cy/world-models/blob/feat/mega-model-registry/models/planet-nature/P7-fauna-and-wildlife.md" } ], "entryKind": "aggregate", "family": "World Models", "category": "Physical world and living systems", "industry": [ "Cross-industry" ], "domain": [ "PHY.LIV.WLD" ], "tags": [ "wildlife", "phy.liv.wld" ], "status": "published" }, "canonicalUrl": "https://ver.cy/models/wm-liv-005-wildlife/", "sourceUrl": "https://github.com/ver-cy/world-models/tree/feat/mega-model-registry/research/runs/wm-liv-005", "model": { "registry_id": "vr.wm-liv-005", "model_id": "WM-LIV-005", "name": "Wildlife", "entry_kind": "aggregate", "purpose": "Organize evidence about wild animal life and populations within a defined geographic, temporal and taxonomic scope.", "scope_statement": "A governed wildlife dossier aggregating referenced taxa, populations, individual animals, observations, movement and conservation context. The aggregate owns scope, evidence links and qualified wildlife views, not the independent biological masters or operational authorities.", "in_scope": [ "Explicit dossier identity, scope and uncertain wildlife-status assertions", "Identification evidence, survey context, population evidence views and animal property assertions", "Deployment-qualified movement and range interpretations with habitat links", "Attributed assessment and legal-control references, disclosure and evidence continuity" ], "out_of_scope": [ "Authoring taxonomic classifications, population estimation algorithms or independent animal master lifecycles", "Husbandry production, habitat management, ecosystem simulation and statutory assessment decisions", "Clinical diagnosis, pathogen procedures, capture, tagging, animal handling, lethal control or trade operations", "Current legal advice, permitting, enforcement, automated public disclosure and external audit-service execution" ], "boundary_notes": [ { "neighbor": "WM-LIV-001 Taxon", "distinction": "Taxon concepts and naming decisions are external masters; this dossier binds their versions and preserves unresolved identifications.", "source_refs": [ "SRC-001" ] }, { "neighbor": "WM-LIV-002 Organism Individual", "distinction": "The animal master owns organism identity and lifecycle; this dossier only relates wildlife observations and identity evidence.", "source_refs": [ "SRC-001", "SRC-004" ] }, { "neighbor": "WM-LIV-003 Population", "distinction": "Population boundaries, demographic analyses and their lifecycle remain external; the dossier retains qualified evidence views.", "source_refs": [ "SRC-002", "SRC-003" ] }, { "neighbor": "WM-LIV-010 Habitat", "distinction": "Habitat extent and condition have separate identity; wildlife-specific associations reference them with time and evidence.", "source_refs": [ "SRC-001", "SRC-003" ] }, { "neighbor": "WM-LIV-006 Ecosystem / Biome", "distinction": "Ecosystem composition and processes are not replaced by the animal-focused dossier.", "source_refs": [ "SRC-003" ] }, { "neighbor": "WM-LIV-022 Conservation Status Assessment", "distinction": "Assessment production and category assignment are delegated; local status views remain attributed references.", "source_refs": [ "SRC-005" ] }, { "neighbor": "WM-LIV-009 Cultivated Organism", "distinction": "Managed animal production is external; feral, captive and release transitions require explicit status history rather than duplicate masters.", "source_refs": [ "SRC-001", "SRC-002" ] }, { "neighbor": "WM-ACT-011 Agriculture Operation", "distinction": "Husbandry operations are not wildlife dossier functions, including for animals with historical wild origin.", "source_refs": [ "SRC-001", "SRC-002" ] }, { "neighbor": "WM-LIV-004 Vegetation Cover", "distinction": "Only conceptual alignment of biodiversity record patterns; plant cover and plant biology are not duplicated.", "source_refs": [ "SRC-001", "SRC-003" ] }, { "neighbor": "WM-ACT-023 Public Health / Epidemiology", "distinction": "Health surveillance may reference wildlife observations; diagnosis, outbreak management and clinical actions are external.", "source_refs": [ "SRC-003" ] }, { "neighbor": "WM-XCT-003 Projection / Disclosure Policy", "distinction": "Disclosure-policy execution remains external; this dossier supplies sensitivity evidence and approved policy bindings.", "source_refs": [ "SRC-007" ] } ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "SRC-001", "title": "Darwin Core Quick Reference Guide", "organization": "Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG)", "url": "https://dwc.tdwg.org/terms/", "version_or_date": "Living reference retrieved 2026-10-07; release pin pending", "source_type": "standard", "primary_source": true, "authority_tier": 1, "accessed_at": "2026-10-07T08:44:42Z", "relevance": "Term-level support for taxon concepts, organism and occurrence identity, identification, measurements, coordinates and record rights. The quick guide combines normative definitions and informative examples; it is not itself the normative standard." }, { "id": "SRC-002", "title": "Humboldt Extension Vocabulary List of Terms", "organization": "Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG)", "url": "https://eco.tdwg.org/list/2024-03-26.html", "version_or_date": "2024-03-26 dated vocabulary snapshot", "source_type": "standard", "primary_source": true, "authority_tier": 1, "accessed_at": "2026-10-07T08:44:42Z", "relevance": "Sampling scope, effort, protocol, abundance reporting and taxonomic completeness. Alignment is limited to this dated vocabulary; later additions are not silently adopted." }, { "id": "SRC-003", "title": "Guide for publishing biological survey and monitoring data to GBIF", "organization": "Global Biodiversity Information Facility", "url": "https://docs.gbif.org/guide-publishing-survey-data/en/", "version_or_date": "v1.0.2, 2025-09-24", "source_type": "first-party-doc", "primary_source": true, "authority_tier": 2, "accessed_at": "2026-10-07T08:44:42Z", "relevance": "Survey hierarchy, sampling context, reported absence as lack of detection, quantities and evidence links. Does not supply a universal population estimator." }, { "id": "SRC-004", "title": "Movebank data model", "organization": "Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior", "url": "https://www.movebank.org/cms/movebank-content/mb-data-model", "version_or_date": "Living first-party documentation retrieved 2026-10-07; release pin pending", "source_type": "first-party-doc", "primary_source": true, "authority_tier": 2, "accessed_at": "2026-10-07T08:44:42Z", "relevance": "Separates animal, tag, deployment and sensor event; deployments link measurements to animals over time. This is a conceptual alignment, not a required storage service." }, { "id": "SRC-005", "title": "IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria: Version 3.1, second edition", "organization": "International Union for Conservation of Nature", "url": "https://portals.iucn.org/library/sites/library/files/documents/RL-2001-001-2nd.pdf", "version_or_date": "Version 3.1, second edition, 2012; indexed bibliographic evidence only", "source_type": "classifier", "primary_source": true, "authority_tier": 1, "accessed_at": "2026-10-07T08:44:42Z", "relevance": "Identifies the assessment framework to reference. Full PDF retrieval failed; exact criteria, thresholds and application guidance are not asserted or implemented here." }, { "id": "SRC-006", "title": "Text of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora", "organization": "CITES Secretariat", "url": "https://cites.org/sites/default/files/eng/disc/CITES-Convention-EN.pdf", "version_or_date": "Convention text; indexed Article II-III excerpts reviewed 2026-10-07; consolidation unverified", "source_type": "legislation", "primary_source": true, "authority_tier": 1, "accessed_at": "2026-10-07T08:44:42Z", "relevance": "Article II supports distinct listing categories and trade controls. No current species listing, permit validity or national-law conclusion is asserted; full retrieval failed." }, { "id": "SRC-007", "title": "Current Best Practices for Generalizing Sensitive Species Occurrence Data", "organization": "Global Biodiversity Information Facility", "url": "https://docs.gbif.org/sensitive-species-best-practices/master/en/", "version_or_date": "Version 1.0, November 2020; web build 2023-05-01", "source_type": "first-party-doc", "primary_source": true, "authority_tier": 2, "accessed_at": "2026-10-07T08:44:42Z", "relevance": "Supports sensitivity review, documented transformations and controlled distribution copies. Personal privacy and licensing require separate jurisdictional policies." }, { "id": "SRC-008", "title": "PROV-O: The PROV Ontology", "organization": "World Wide Web Consortium", "url": "https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/", "version_or_date": "W3C Recommendation, 2013-04-30", "source_type": "ontology", "primary_source": true, "authority_tier": 1, "accessed_at": "2026-10-07T08:44:42Z", "relevance": "Supports attribution, generation and derivation relationships. 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Uncertain wild, feral, introduced, captive or managed status is recorded with evidence and dates, rather than inferred from a name.", "source_refs": [ "SRC-001", "SRC-002", "SRC-008" ], "findings": [ { "id": "scope", "name": "Wildlife scope and taxon binding", "description": "One aggregate is a governed wildlife dossier for an explicit area, period and taxonomic remit. It may span multiple wild animal taxa and populations. The dossier has its own identity; its members retain theirs. Uncertain wild, feral, introduced, captive or managed status is recorded with evidence and dates, rather than inferred from a name.", "source_refs": [ "SRC-001", "SRC-002", "SRC-008" ], "questions": [ { "id": "scope-q1", "text": "What area, period and animal scope delimit this wildlife dossier?", "kind": "definition", "answer_data": [ "dossier-id", "scope-geometry-ref", "time-interval", "taxonomic-remit", "scope-exclusions" ] }, { "id": "scope-q2", "text": "Which versioned taxon concepts support the accepted and unresolved animal identifications?", "kind": "classification", "answer_data": [ "taxon-master-ref", "concept-version", "verbatim-name", "identification-status" ] }, { "id": "scope-q3", "text": "Which evidence justifies wild or managed status and any transition across that boundary?", "kind": "constraint", "answer_data": [ "status-assertion", "valid-time", "evidence-ref", "boundary-review" ] } ], "data_elements": [ { "id": "scope-d1", "name": "Dossier identity", "description": "Local aggregate identity and version, with responsible steward role.", "value_kind": "identifier", "cardinality": "1", "required": true, "source_refs": [ "SRC-001", "SRC-002", "SRC-008" ] }, { "id": "scope-d2", "name": "Scope declaration", "description": "Area reference, interval, taxonomic remit and exclusions; scope changes create a version.", "value_kind": "object", "cardinality": "1", "required": true, "source_refs": [ "SRC-001", "SRC-002", "SRC-008" ] }, { "id": "scope-d3", "name": "Taxon bindings", "description": "External concept IDs, source versions, verbatim names and unresolved mappings.", "value_kind": "collection", "cardinality": "0..n", "required": false, "source_refs": [ "SRC-001", "SRC-002", "SRC-008" ] } ], "artifacts": [ { "id": "scope-artifact", "name": "Scope and taxon binding record", "description": "Versioned evidence for wildlife scope and taxon binding, including referenced inputs, author role, uncertainty and access classification. It may be an external reference; possession of a copy is not required.", "media_or_form": [ "structured record", "review memorandum" ], "serial": true, "identity_strategy": "Authoritative master-system identifier first; governed global IRI second; Dimension-assigned UUID or ULID third. Revision and content hash identify representations, not a new biological subject. Dates never serve as sole identifiers.", "source_refs": [ "SRC-001", "SRC-002", "SRC-008" ] } ], "inline_only_rationale": null } ] }, { "id": "individual-layer", "name": "Individual continuity", "description": "Individual identification is optional for anonymous observations. Identity claims link to the organism master and preserve uncertain matches. Tag codes, names and repeated sightings are evidence, not sufficient identity keys. A corrected identification need not change the occurrence identity.", "source_refs": [ "SRC-001", "SRC-004", "SRC-008" ], "findings": [ { "id": "individual", "name": "Animal identity references", "description": "Individual identification is optional for anonymous observations. Identity claims link to the organism master and preserve uncertain matches. Tag codes, names and repeated sightings are evidence, not sufficient identity keys. A corrected identification need not change the occurrence identity.", "source_refs": [ "SRC-001", "SRC-004", "SRC-008" ], "questions": [ { "id": "individual-q1", "text": "Which organism master identifies the animal, or why is individual identity unresolved?", "kind": "identity", "answer_data": [ "organism-ref", "identity-state", "unresolved-reason" ] }, { "id": "individual-q2", "text": "What evidence supports merging or separating suspected sightings of the same animal?", "kind": "evidence", "answer_data": [ "candidate-links", "matching-method", "reviewer-role", "contrary-evidence" ] }, { "id": "individual-q3", "text": "How are identity corrections propagated without rewriting original observations?", "kind": "lifecycle", "answer_data": [ "superseding-link", "prior-assertion", "revision-reason", "affected-records" ] } ], "data_elements": [ { "id": "individual-d1", "name": "Organism reference", "description": "Pinned master identifier when an individual is distinguishable.", "value_kind": "reference", "cardinality": "0..1", "required": false, "source_refs": [ "SRC-001", "SRC-004", "SRC-008" ] }, { "id": "individual-d2", "name": "Identity claims", "description": "Proposed matches and rejections, their confidence, evidence and review state.", "value_kind": "collection", "cardinality": "0..n", "required": false, "source_refs": [ "SRC-001", "SRC-004", "SRC-008" ] } ], "artifacts": [ { "id": "individual-artifact", "name": "Individual identity reconciliation record", "description": "Versioned evidence for animal identity references, including referenced inputs, author role, uncertainty and access classification. It may be an external reference; possession of a copy is not required.", "media_or_form": [ "structured record", "review memorandum" ], "serial": true, "identity_strategy": "Authoritative master-system identifier first; governed global IRI second; Dimension-assigned UUID or ULID third. Revision and content hash identify representations, not a new biological subject. Dates never serve as sole identifiers.", "source_refs": [ "SRC-001", "SRC-004", "SRC-008" ] } ], "inline_only_rationale": null } ] } ] }, { "id": "observation-and-survey", "name": "Observation and survey", "description": "Retain detections, identification evidence and sampling context separately from inferred population properties.", "rationale": "Proposed wildlife-specific organization of the cited concepts; this hierarchy is a local design, not a hierarchy prescribed by the sources.", "source_refs": [ "SRC-001", "SRC-002", "SRC-003" ], "layers": [ { "id": "observation-layer", "name": "Detection evidence", "description": "Record what was detected, where and when, the evidence modality and identification history. A photograph, sound or genetic evidence reference requires method-specific review; automated recognition remains an attributed assertion. Non-detection needs defined search scope and effort, and missing records are not absences.", "source_refs": [ "SRC-001", "SRC-003", "SRC-008" ], "findings": [ { "id": "observation", "name": "Occurrence and identification", "description": "Record what was detected, where and when, the evidence modality and identification history. A photograph, sound or genetic evidence reference requires method-specific review; automated recognition remains an attributed assertion. Non-detection needs defined search scope and effort, and missing records are not absences.", "source_refs": [ "SRC-001", "SRC-003", "SRC-008" ], "questions": [ { "id": "observation-q1", "text": "What observation supports the occurrence assertion and its identification confidence?", "kind": "provenance", "answer_data": [ "occurrence-id", "basis-of-record", "evidence-ref", "identification-method", "review-state" ] }, { "id": "observation-q2", "text": "Which event time, location, datum and spatial uncertainty describe the detection?", "kind": "spatial", "answer_data": [ "event-interval", "original-time-precision", "geometry-ref", "coordinate-reference-system", "uncertainty-distance" ] }, { "id": "observation-q3", "text": "What distinguishes a non-detection from an unsampled or unreported taxon?", "kind": "quality", "answer_data": [ "survey-ref", "target-scope", "effort", "reporting-completeness", "observation-status" ] } ], "data_elements": [ { "id": "observation-d1", "name": "Occurrence reference", "description": "Master occurrence ID with a separate identification assertion history.", "value_kind": "reference", "cardinality": "1", "required": true, "source_refs": [ "SRC-001", "SRC-003", "SRC-008" ] }, { "id": "observation-d2", "name": "Detection context", "description": "Event and ingestion times, basis, observer role, geometry, CRS, positional uncertainty and evidence access.", "value_kind": "object", "cardinality": "1", "required": true, "source_refs": [ "SRC-001", "SRC-003", "SRC-008" ] }, { "id": "observation-d3", "name": "Identification review", "description": "Verbatim designation, proposed concept, method version, confidence and contrary evidence.", "value_kind": "collection", "cardinality": "0..n", "required": false, "source_refs": [ "SRC-001", "SRC-003", "SRC-008" ] } ], "artifacts": [ { "id": "observation-artifact", "name": "Occurrence evidence record", "description": "Versioned evidence for occurrence and identification, including referenced inputs, author role, uncertainty and access classification. It may be an external reference; possession of a copy is not required.", "media_or_form": [ "structured record", "review memorandum" ], "serial": true, "identity_strategy": "Authoritative master-system identifier first; governed global IRI second; Dimension-assigned UUID or ULID third. Revision and content hash identify representations, not a new biological subject. Dates never serve as sole identifiers.", "source_refs": [ "SRC-001", "SRC-003", "SRC-008" ] } ], "inline_only_rationale": null } ] }, { "id": "survey-layer", "name": "Sampling context", "description": "Link sampling events to the survey design, targets, exclusions, effort and reporting completeness. Preserve nesting without assuming that every child is disjoint or exhaustive. Survey declarations describe reported effort; they do not prove perfect detection.", "source_refs": [ "SRC-002", "SRC-003" ], "findings": [ { "id": "survey", "name": "Survey design and coverage", "description": "Link sampling events to the survey design, targets, exclusions, effort and reporting completeness. Preserve nesting without assuming that every child is disjoint or exhaustive. Survey declarations describe reported effort; they do not prove perfect detection.", "source_refs": [ "SRC-002", "SRC-003" ], "questions": [ { "id": "survey-q1", "text": "Which sampling protocol, target scope and event hierarchy produced the observations?", "kind": "composition", "answer_data": [ "survey-id", "event-id", "parent-event-id", "protocol-version", "targets", "exclusions" ] }, { "id": "survey-q2", "text": "What effort and sampling extent were actually achieved relative to the planned design?", "kind": "measurement", "answer_data": [ "effort-value", "effort-unit", "sampled-area", "duration", "deviations" ] }, { "id": "survey-q3", "text": "Which completeness and overlap rules permit comparison or aggregation of these survey events?", "kind": "validation", "answer_data": [ "reported-completeness", "overlap-assessment", "inclusion-rules", "comparison-limitations" ] } ], "data_elements": [ { "id": "survey-d1", "name": "Survey reference", "description": "Identifier and version of the survey or sampling-event master.", "value_kind": "reference", "cardinality": "1", "required": true, "source_refs": [ "SRC-002", "SRC-003" ] }, { "id": "survey-d2", "name": "Sampling declaration", "description": "Actual target scope, effort quantities with units, extent and departures from protocol.", "value_kind": "object", "cardinality": "1", "required": true, "source_refs": [ "SRC-002", "SRC-003" ] }, { "id": "survey-d3", "name": "Coverage qualification", "description": "Completeness, unvisited strata and overlap information; unknown remains explicit.", "value_kind": "object", "cardinality": "0..1", "required": false, "source_refs": [ "SRC-002", "SRC-003" ] } ], "artifacts": [ { "id": "survey-artifact", "name": "Survey context statement", "description": "Versioned evidence for survey design and coverage, including referenced inputs, author role, uncertainty and access classification. It may be an external reference; possession of a copy is not required.", "media_or_form": [ "structured record", "review memorandum" ], "serial": true, "identity_strategy": "Authoritative master-system identifier first; governed global IRI second; Dimension-assigned UUID or ULID third. Revision and content hash identify representations, not a new biological subject. 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Demographic and mortality summaries require evidence and do not establish cause.", "source_refs": [ "SRC-002", "SRC-003", "SRC-008" ], "findings": [ { "id": "population", "name": "Population estimate and trend reference", "description": "A population master defines the biological unit. This dossier references versioned counts, indices or estimates and the analysis that produced them. Values with different units, seasonal windows or inclusion rules cannot be silently combined. Demographic and mortality summaries require evidence and do not establish cause.", "source_refs": [ "SRC-002", "SRC-003", "SRC-008" ], "questions": [ { "id": "population-q1", "text": "Which population unit, period and metric does this estimate or count describe?", "kind": "relationship", "answer_data": [ "population-ref", "boundary-version", "period", "metric-type", "value", "unit" ] }, { "id": "population-q2", "text": "What analysis assumptions and uncertainty accompany the reported population value?", "kind": "measurement", "answer_data": [ "analysis-ref", "method-version", "input-surveys", "uncertainty-type", "interval", "limitations" ] }, { "id": "population-q3", "text": "Which demographic strata and method changes affect an apparent population trend?", "kind": "temporal", "answer_data": [ "age-sex-life-stage-strata", "comparison-periods", "method-change", "comparability-decision" ] } ], "data_elements": [ { "id": "population-d1", "name": "Population reference", "description": "External population identifier and boundary version, without copying its lifecycle.", "value_kind": "reference", "cardinality": "1", "required": true, "source_refs": [ "SRC-002", "SRC-003", "SRC-008" ] }, { "id": "population-d2", "name": "Population evidence view", "description": "Referenced metric, units, period, strata, method and uncertainty; count and estimate distinguished.", "value_kind": "object", "cardinality": "1", "required": true, "source_refs": [ "SRC-002", "SRC-003", "SRC-008" ] }, { "id": "population-d3", "name": "Trend qualification", "description": "Versioned comparison result and reasons to withhold a trend.", "value_kind": "object", "cardinality": "0..1", "required": false, "source_refs": [ "SRC-002", "SRC-003", "SRC-008" ] } ], "artifacts": [ { "id": "population-artifact", "name": "Population evidence view", "description": "Versioned evidence for population estimate and trend reference, including referenced inputs, author role, uncertainty and access classification. It may be an external reference; possession of a copy is not required.", "media_or_form": [ "structured record", "review memorandum" ], "serial": true, "identity_strategy": "Authoritative master-system identifier first; governed global IRI second; Dimension-assigned UUID or ULID third. Revision and content hash identify representations, not a new biological subject. Dates never serve as sole identifiers.", "source_refs": [ "SRC-002", "SRC-003", "SRC-008" ] } ], "inline_only_rationale": null } ] }, { "id": "properties-layer", "name": "Traits and behavior", "description": "Wild animals have physical properties and observed behaviors; the aggregate itself has no body mass or locomotion. Bind measurements and behavior assertions to an individual, taxon or population explicitly. A species-level capability must not be asserted as an observed act by a particular animal. Health concerns are attributed reports for specialist referral, not diagnoses.", "source_refs": [ "SRC-001", "SRC-004", "SRC-008" ], "findings": [ { "id": "properties", "name": "Observed properties and behavior", "description": "Wild animals have physical properties and observed behaviors; the aggregate itself has no body mass or locomotion. Bind measurements and behavior assertions to an individual, taxon or population explicitly. A species-level capability must not be asserted as an observed act by a particular animal. Health concerns are attributed reports for specialist referral, not diagnoses.", "source_refs": [ "SRC-001", "SRC-004", "SRC-008" ], "questions": [ { "id": "properties-q1", "text": "Which subject, method, units and conditions qualify the measured physical property?", "kind": "measurement", "answer_data": [ "subject-ref", "trait-ref", "value", "unit", "method", "conditions", "uncertainty", "observed-at" ] }, { "id": "properties-q2", "text": "Is the reported behavior directly observed, inferred or a general capability claim?", "kind": "state", "answer_data": [ "behavior-assertion", "evidence-mode", "subject-level", "context", "observation-window" ] }, { "id": "properties-q3", "text": "Which uncertainty or welfare concern requires specialist review before using these observations?", "kind": "exception", "answer_data": [ "quality-flag", "welfare-report-ref", "review-role", "use-restriction" ] } ], "data_elements": [ { "id": "properties-d1", "name": "Property assertions", "description": "Subject-bound measurements including units, conditions, tolerance or uncertainty and provenance.", "value_kind": "collection", "cardinality": "0..n", "required": false, "source_refs": [ "SRC-001", "SRC-004", "SRC-008" ] }, { "id": "properties-d2", "name": "Behavior assertions", "description": "Observed behavior versus inferred capability, with context, evidence and confidence.", "value_kind": "collection", "cardinality": "0..n", "required": false, "source_refs": [ "SRC-001", "SRC-004", "SRC-008" ] }, { "id": "properties-d3", "name": "Referral reference", "description": "Optional external health or welfare report; no clinical or intervention procedure.", "value_kind": "reference", "cardinality": "0..1", "required": false, "source_refs": [ "SRC-001", "SRC-004", "SRC-008" ] } ], "artifacts": [ { "id": "properties-artifact", "name": "Trait and behavior evidence sheet", "description": "Versioned evidence for observed properties and behavior, including referenced inputs, author role, uncertainty and access classification. 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Proposed local fields do not replace source vocabulary IRIs.", "registry_links": [ "vr.wm-liv-005", "WM-LIV-001", "WM-LIV-002", "WM-LIV-003", "WM-LIV-010", "WM-LIV-022" ] }, "canon_and_patch": { "canonicalization_rules": [ "Pin scope and source versions; retain verbatim values alongside interpreted claims.", "This single-provider output remains a noncanonical reviewable draft." ], "patch_rules": [ "Require expected prior revision, evidence, responsible role and reason; preserve disputed interpretations.", "Treat changed spatial extent, units or taxon concept as explicit semantic changes." ], "compatibility_rules": [ "Never silently coerce counts to estimates or individual observations to species capabilities.", "Export declared mappings and loss reports; major semantic changes require a reviewed version migration." ] }, "artifact_rules": { "identity_priority": [ "Authoritative master-system identifier", "Governed global identifier or IRI", "Dimension-assigned UUID or ULID" ], "timestamp_rule": "Record system event and ingestion instants in RFC 3339 with seconds and explicit offset or Z. 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Unknown values cannot be converted to zero or safe status.", "Data licensing and personal privacy are profile dependencies; no universal national-law or data-reuse permission is asserted." ], "crud": { "read": [ "Apply access at all levels; do not infer access from possession of a dossier ID.", "Return permitted uncertainty, provenance and withholding notices with projections." ], "create": [ "Create a scoped dossier and evidence links only with authorized purpose, identifiers and source attribution." ], "update": [ "Use version preconditions and append corrections with reasons; external master corrections go to their custodians." ], "delete": [ "Retire local views under the declared retention policy; lawful payload deletion requires disposition authority and hold checks.", "The adopting Dimension storage policy owns deletion execution; retain only lawful minimal tombstones and do not delete external masters." ] }, "roles": [ { "name": "Ecology steward", "responsibilities": [ "Own dossier scope and approve governance profiles." ] }, { "name": "Evidence curator", "responsibilities": [ "Check source links, methods, versioning and unresolved identity." ] }, { "name": "Scientific reviewer", "responsibilities": [ "Evaluate interpretation and uncertainty without assuming legal authority." ] }, { "name": "Disclosure reviewer", "responsibilities": [ "Assess recipient-specific wildlife sensitivity and residual inference risk." ] }, { "name": "Authorized reader", "responsibilities": [ "Observe purpose limits, attribution and redistribution restrictions." ] } ], "access": { "default_rule": "Deny access to restricted precise observations and sensitive artifacts unless an explicit purpose-bound grant permits it; allow approved public derivatives only.", "scopes": [ "bundle", "layer", "finding", "artifact" ], "exceptions": [ "Time-limited exceptional access requires the designated disclosure authority, purpose, recipient and review record; it is never implied by scientific interest." ], "audit_requirements": [ "Send reads of restricted material, export decisions and local mutations to the designated external audit service with minimal necessary identifiers.", "Log policy version, role, purpose and decision without copying sensitive coordinates into unrestricted logs." ] }, "agents_bootstrap": { "filename": "AGENTS.md", "required_fields": [ "Name", "Type", "Specification URL", "Storage type URL", "Interface URL", "Processes URL" ], "read_order": [ "Read AGENTS.md and package review holds.", "Read spec.yaml, owner Dimension policies and source-verification limits.", "Resolve subject masters and versions, then traverse bundles, layers, findings, questions and artifacts." ] } }, "coverage": { "claim": "Source-grounded proposed wildlife dossier aggregate with separate biological masters, qualified observation and population evidence, and controlled disclosure. A separate local no-tools self-audit found no critical conflicts. Independent review, source/version verification, jurisdiction profiles and executable conformance remain holds; this is a noncanonical reviewable draft.", "confidence": "medium", "checklist": [ { "dimension": "identity", "status": "covered", "notes": "Dossier identity is distinct from referenced taxon, individual, population and observation identities." }, { "dimension": "lifecycle", "status": "covered", "notes": "Local evidence revision and retirement are separated from biological death, taxon revision and master lifecycles." }, { "dimension": "relationships", "status": "covered", "notes": "Candidate references preserve neighboring model ownership; version bindings remain required." }, { "dimension": "temporal", "status": "covered", "notes": "Event, ingestion, effective and assessment times retain source precision." }, { "dimension": "provenance", "status": "covered", "notes": "Evidence inputs, attribution, derivation and conflicting assertions remain explicit." }, { "dimension": "ownership", "status": "covered", "notes": "Generic steward and rights-holder roles govern data; no wildlife property ownership is inferred." }, { "dimension": "validation", "status": "gap", "notes": "Research structure is machine-checkable; instance schemas and adapter conformance are not implemented." }, { "dimension": "access", "status": "covered", "notes": "Recipient-purpose review and separate sensitive projections cover all structural levels." }, { "dimension": "retention and deletion", "status": "covered", "notes": "Local retirement, holds and lawful payload disposition are policy-bound, not perpetual retention." }, { "dimension": "interoperability", "status": "gap", "notes": "Conceptual vocabulary alignments only; no certified mappings or lossless round trips." }, { "dimension": "direct properties", "status": "covered", "notes": "Subject-bound quantities include method, units, conditions and uncertainty; aggregate physical traits are inapplicable." }, { "dimension": "recognition", "status": "covered", "notes": "Detection evidence, identification confidence and unresolved lookalikes remain distinct." }, { "dimension": "capability and behavior", "status": "covered", "notes": "Observed acts differ from general capability claims; proposed record operations do not act on animals." }, { "dimension": "safety and authority", "status": "covered", "notes": "Sensitive location release and regulated intervention are policy-level review matters." }, { "dimension": "source currency", "status": "gap", "notes": "Six browser-readable documents and two indexed-only sources; direct status and comprehensive version verification pending." } ], "known_omissions": [ "Independent external review is absent; this is a local Codex research and self-audit workflow.", "Direct HTTP source status and content hashes are unmeasured in the restricted sandbox; coordinator checks and version pins remain pending.", "Full IUCN criteria and CITES text retrieval failed; only indexed bibliographic evidence and selected treaty excerpts were available. No current category, threshold or species listing is established.", "Executable nested instance schemas, adapter implementations, vocabulary mappings and conformance fixtures remain to be developed.", "Jurisdiction-specific wildlife definitions, animal welfare, data rights, privacy, Indigenous and community data governance require local review.", "Population estimator validation, species-specific recognition, trait ontologies, health interpretation and habitat modeling are delegated and unvalidated." ], "conflicts": [], "regional_assumptions": [ "No country or taxon coverage is universal; adopters must bind local authorities, definitions and data-use rules.", "The cited treaty framework does not establish domestic legality or any present species listing." ], "adversarial_checks": [ "Do not merge animal identity because tag codes match.", "Do not turn missing or opportunistic data into ecological absence or abundance.", "Do not treat a conservation assessment as a legal permission.", "Do not disclose precise locations indirectly through images, text or cross-dataset joins.", "Do not inherit the legacy claim that populations are always estimated rather than counted.", "Do not duplicate neighboring biological masters or operational services." ] }, "researchAdjudication": { "providerMode": "single-provider-waiver", "activeProviders": [ "codex" ], "waivedProviders": [ "claude", "grok" ], "providerPolicy": { "contract_version": "1.0.0", "mode": "single-provider-waiver", "effective_at": "2026-09-06T00:00:00Z", "scope": "Canonical single-stream subject-model research after the six-workstream consolidation", "active_providers": [ "codex" ], "waived_providers": [ { "provider": "claude", "authorized_by": "repository owner", "authorized_at": "2026-09-06T00:00:00Z", "reason": "Claude produced no result on prior 1800-second and 900-second attempts and again timed out on bounded 600-second Sonnet and 300-second Haiku passes. The owner prioritized completion over provider availability." }, { "provider": "grok", "authorized_by": "repository owner", "authorized_at": "2026-09-06T00:00:00Z", "reason": "The repository owner authorized completion without Grok when Grok is unavailable, slow or schema-invalid. Grok may still be attempted as a bounded supplemental reviewer, but its failure never blocks a valid Claude plus no-tools result." } ], "review_rule": "Codex may complete source-grounded fallback research after bounded Claude and Grok attempts fail. It requires a separate no-tools adversarial audit and remains reviewable-draft with a visible absence-of-external-review hold.", "supplemental_provider_attempts": [ { "provider": "claude", "required": false, "maximum_attempts": 1, "failure_policy": "record-and-continue", "admission_rule": "Use only a locally schema-valid result whose sources and boundaries survive adjudication." }, { "provider": "grok", "required": false, "maximum_attempts": 1, "failure_policy": "record-and-continue", "admission_rule": "Use only a locally schema-valid result whose sources and boundaries survive adjudication." } ] }, "boundaryDecision": { "entry_kind": "aggregate", "status": "accepted", "rationale": "One dossier aggregates wildlife evidence for an explicit geographic, temporal and taxonomic remit while retaining distinct subject masters. This is not one animal or a universal biological register. Registry standalone-mm is a registry classification, not the subject-kind enum." }, "decisions": [ { "concept": "Scoped wildlife aggregate", "disposition": "accepted", "rationale": "The dossier identity, scope declaration and local evidence lifecycle support an aggregate with explicit membership bounds rather than an undifferentiated fauna entity." }, { "concept": "Neighbor ownership and legacy P7", "disposition": "qualified", "rationale": "Taxon, organism, population, habitat and assessment masters remain outside this model. Legacy taxonomy, demography and protection topics become qualified references and views, not duplicated master lifecycles." }, { "concept": "Wild and managed classification", "disposition": "accepted with profile hold", "rationale": "Status evidence and valid time cover uncertain feral, captive, introduced or release transitions without asserting one universal legal or ecological definition." }, { "concept": "Individual identification", "disposition": "qualified", "rationale": "Anonymous observations are allowed; tag codes and repeated sightings do not compel identity merges, and uncertain matches retain their evidence and review state." }, { "concept": "Occurrence, survey and non-detection", "disposition": "separated", "rationale": "The questions require sampling scope, effort and completeness to distinguish non-detection from missing data. They do not infer ecological absence or exact abundance from opportunistic records." }, { "concept": "Counts, estimates and demographic trends", "disposition": "legacy overstatement rejected", "rationale": "Population views distinguish metric types and external analyses. The legacy statement that populations are always estimated rather than counted is not inherited." }, { "concept": "Physical properties and behavior", "disposition": "qualified", "rationale": "Measurements belong to explicitly referenced subjects and include method, units and uncertainty. General capability, observed behavior and specialist health referral remain distinct assertions." }, { "concept": "Movement and habitat", "disposition": "qualified", "rationale": "Deployment intervals mediate tag-to-animal attribution. Range products retain product kind, seasonal scope and coverage limitations; suitability is not occupancy or statutory designation." }, { "concept": "Assessment and legal authority", "disposition": "separated", "rationale": "Scientific assessments and legal controls are attributed references with scope and time. No local operation assigns a threat category, establishes a current listing or authorizes regulated activity." }, { "concept": "Sensitive disclosure and retention", "disposition": "accepted with policy dependencies", "rationale": "Recipient-specific review covers linked metadata and derivatives; privacy and lawful disposition are not replaced by a blanket rule to preserve all original payloads forever." }, { "concept": "Functions and service ownership", "disposition": "accepted as proposals", "rationale": "All six functions are unimplemented local evidence operations with refusal outcomes. Audit execution, deletion enforcement and neighboring biological lifecycle operations remain external." }, { "concept": "Evidence retrieval and source currency", "disposition": "limited", "rationale": "Six documents were browser-readable for selected review and two had indexed-only evidence. No direct HTTP request was attempted under the sandbox restriction, and no version, status or legal-currentness guarantee follows." }, { "concept": "Independent review and conformance", "disposition": "deferred", "rationale": "This separate local self-audit cannot substitute for external review. Candidate data groups and conceptual alignments need executable schemas, mappings and adversarial fixtures before operational use." } ], "publicationHolds": [ "Independent external review is absent under the owner-authorized single-provider waiver. Claude and Grok were skipped with zero attempts; this local Codex no-tools self-audit is not a second-provider review.", "Source and version verification remains incomplete. Six documents were browser-readable for selected claim review; IUCN and CITES full retrieval failed and only indexed evidence was admitted. Direct HTTP checks were not attempted because the owner identified a sandbox block: zero attempts and zero measured HTTP 200 responses. Coordinator must run check_sources.py outside the sandbox and verify substance, versions and licensing separately.", "Local wildlife definitions, welfare and legal authority, current listings, privacy, data rights and community governance require qualified jurisdiction and deployment-profile review. No species-specific status, permit or intervention authority is established.", "Nested instance schemas, pinned neighbor bindings, vocabulary adapters, mapping loss reports and adversarial conformance fixtures remain incomplete. Population analyses and species recognition need separately validated methods; no operational certification is claimed.", "Independent external review was explicitly waived by the repository owner; this codex-only result remains a reviewable draft." ], "deferredResearch": [ "Complete direct source checks, inspect full IUCN and treaty documents, confirm version pins and establish the applicable local profile before relying on status or control references.", "Develop and test instance schemas and adapters using identity ambiguity, tag reassignment, non-detection, overlapping surveys, uncertain dates, changed taxonomy and sensitive-data inference cases.", "Restore independent external review before canonical or publishable-draft promotion; retain the provider waiver visibly until then." ] }, "statistics": { "sources": 8, "bundles": 6, "layers": 12, "findings": 12, "questions": 36, "artifacts": 12, "functions": 6 } }