Capabilities

Capabilities as bounded outcomes

Ontogony separates consequential decision work into explicit responsibilities so that execution, model access, meaning, promotion, and evidence do not collapse into one authority.

  1. Problem → outcome → stage

    Controlled model access

    1. 01

      Customer problem

      Model calls need routing authority, usage evidence, and a clear separation from semantic judgment.

    2. 02

      Intended outcome

      Each model invocation can be represented as a controlled responsibility transfer with bounded evidence.

    3. 03

    Evidence boundary: Routing and call evidence do not establish semantic truth.

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  2. Problem → outcome → stage

    Dossier and offline verification

    1. 01

      Customer problem

      Reviewers need a durable record and a way to detect whether published files differ from their manifest.

    2. 02

      Intended outcome

      The decision loop ends at an inspectable dossier and an independent checksum-verification boundary.

    3. 03

    Evidence boundary: Checksum matching does not prove a decision correct, complete, or legally compliant.

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  3. Problem → outcome → stage

    Governed execution

    1. 01

      Customer problem

      External runtimes can perform work without making their authority boundaries or consequential actions inspectable.

    2. 02

      Intended outcome

      A run can be explained as an ordered set of bounded operations, gates, and evidence-producing handoffs.

    3. 03

    Evidence boundary: Execution does not silently acquire semantic or promotion authority.

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  4. Problem → outcome → stage

    Promotion and officialization

    1. 01

      Customer problem

      Produced results can appear official when the authority required to promote them is implicit or absent.

    2. 02

      Intended outcome

      Promotion becomes a distinct, fail-closed responsibility with an inspectable result.

    3. 03

    Evidence boundary: A technical promotion gate is not a legal or regulatory determination.

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  5. Problem → outcome → stage

    Semantic and policy judgment

    1. 01

      Customer problem

      Model output alone cannot determine which facts, policies, or interpretations are authoritative.

    2. 02

      Intended outcome

      A decision record can distinguish advisory output from the authority that judged it.

    3. 03

    Evidence boundary: Model output remains advisory unless a named authority promotes it.

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  6. Problem → outcome → stage

    Temporal reconstruction

    1. 01

      Customer problem

      Later review needs to establish what evidence was available when a consequential decision was made.

    2. 02

      Intended outcome

      A reviewer can follow declared source lineage and time-indexed context without assuming undocumented completeness.

    3. 03

    Evidence boundary: Reconstruction is limited to the evidence actually present and linked.

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See the responsibilities in the full loop