{
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "last_updated": "2026-05-26",
  "url": "https://paice.foundation/ontology.json",
  "mission": "Make intelligence measurable, teachable, and governable.",
  "core_thesis": "Organizations can no longer reliably determine whether AI-assisted work is behaviorally trustworthy. PAICE exists to make that observable through independent measurement, open trust infrastructure, and legal graph systems.",
  "definitions": {
    "aggregated_intelligence": "The combined cognitive output of people, AI systems, infrastructure, and institutional processes operating together.",
    "behavioral_reliability": "The degree to which AI-assisted decisions remain trustworthy under real operational conditions.",
    "observable_governance": "Governance grounded in measurable behavior rather than policy assertions, self-reporting, or vendor-owned claims.",
    "synthetic_confidence": "False confidence amplified by AI-generated fluency and persuasive outputs.",
    "operational_drift": "Gradual degradation of verification rigor, calibration quality, and decision reliability within AI-assisted workflows.",
    "verification_burden": "The hidden human labor required to validate AI-assisted outputs safely at scale.",
    "trust_boundaries": "The explicit limits that preserve integrity between human authority, machine instructions, services, data, and autonomous action."
  },
  "vectors": [
    {
      "id": "people",
      "name": "People",
      "primary_component": "paice-work",
      "purpose": "Measure behavioral reliability under AI-assisted work conditions."
    },
    {
      "id": "infrastructure",
      "name": "Infrastructure",
      "primary_component": "siteline",
      "purpose": "Measure whether public systems remain usable and trustworthy for agents acting on behalf of humans."
    },
    {
      "id": "regulation",
      "name": "Regulation",
      "primary_component": "every-ai-law",
      "purpose": "Represent AI obligations, legal records, public interpretations, and incident law as current structured infrastructure."
    },
    {
      "id": "combined_posture",
      "name": "Combined Posture",
      "primary_component": "ai-posture",
      "purpose": "Unify People, Infrastructure, and Regulation into an aggregated intelligence posture model."
    }
  ],
  "layers": [
    {
      "id": "measurement",
      "name": "Measurement layer",
      "description": "Independent vector scores (PAICE.work for People, Siteline for Infrastructure), aggregated with Regulation by AI Posture into one combined governance score bounded by the weakest vector.",
      "aggregator": "ai-posture",
      "components": ["paice-work", "siteline", "ai-posture"]
    },
    {
      "id": "legal_graph",
      "name": "Legal graph",
      "description": "One connected representation of statutes, interpretations, incidents, and the shared schema underneath.",
      "components": ["every-ai-law", "obligation-first", "publedge", "ai-incident-law"]
    },
    {
      "id": "agent_standards",
      "name": "Agent standards",
      "description": "How agents communicate limits, prove provenance, preserve instruction trust, and coordinate without a central orchestrator.",
      "components": ["graceful-boundaries", "skill-provenance", "guidecheck", "hardguard25", "turnfile"]
    },
    {
      "id": "knowledge_infrastructure",
      "name": "Knowledge infrastructure",
      "description": "Structured-knowledge tooling that keeps the rest of the portfolio current and auditable.",
      "components": ["knowledge-as-code", "ai-tool-watch", "skill-a11y-audit"]
    }
  ],
  "components": [
    {
      "id": "paice-work",
      "name": "PAICE.work",
      "url": "https://paice.work/",
      "repo": "PAICE2",
      "category": "paid_reference_implementation",
      "vector": "people",
      "layer": "measurement",
      "role": "Behavioral reliability measurement for AI-assisted work."
    },
    {
      "id": "siteline",
      "name": "Siteline",
      "url": "https://siteline.to/",
      "repo": "siteline",
      "category": "paid_reference_implementation",
      "vector": "infrastructure",
      "layer": "measurement",
      "role": "Agent accessibility and machine usability scanner for public websites."
    },
    {
      "id": "every-ai-law",
      "name": "Every AI Law",
      "url": "https://everyailaw.com/",
      "repo": "every-ai-law",
      "category": "paid_reference_implementation",
      "vector": "regulation",
      "layer": "legal_graph",
      "role": "Restricted, monetized AI-specific obligation registry and regulation intelligence layer."
    },
    {
      "id": "graceful-boundaries",
      "name": "Graceful Boundaries",
      "url": "https://gracefulboundaries.dev/",
      "repo": "graceful-boundaries",
      "category": "open_pattern_or_spec",
      "vector": "agent_communication",
      "layer": "agent_standards",
      "role": "Operational limit communication patterns for humans and agents."
    },
    {
      "id": "hardguard25",
      "name": "HardGuard25",
      "url": "https://hardguard25.com/",
      "repo": "hardguard25",
      "category": "open_pattern_or_spec",
      "vector": "human_safe_identifiers",
      "layer": "agent_standards",
      "role": "Human-safe identifier alphabet for ambiguous handoff conditions."
    },
    {
      "id": "skill-provenance",
      "name": "Skill Provenance",
      "url": "https://skillprovenance.dev/",
      "repo": "skill-provenance",
      "category": "open_pattern_or_spec",
      "vector": "agent_skills",
      "layer": "agent_standards",
      "role": "Version identity, provenance, and manifest tracking for agent skill bundles."
    },
    {
      "id": "turnfile",
      "name": "Turnfile",
      "url": "https://turnfile.work/",
      "repo": "turnfile",
      "category": "open_pattern_or_spec",
      "vector": "agent_coordination",
      "layer": "agent_standards",
      "role": "Peer protocol for multi-agent collaboration without a central orchestrator."
    },
    {
      "id": "ai-tool-watch",
      "name": "AI Tool Watch",
      "url": "https://aitool.watch/",
      "repo": "ai-tool-watch",
      "category": "open_pattern_or_spec",
      "vector": "capability_reference",
      "layer": "knowledge_infrastructure",
      "role": "Verified AI capability reference that keeps rubrics and reasoning about tools current."
    },
    {
      "id": "knowledge-as-code",
      "name": "Knowledge-as-Code",
      "url": "https://knowledge-as-code.com/",
      "repo": "knowledge-as-code-template",
      "category": "open_pattern_or_spec",
      "vector": "knowledge_infrastructure",
      "layer": "knowledge_infrastructure",
      "role": "Ontology-first template for structured, version-controlled knowledge bases."
    },
    {
      "id": "skill-a11y-audit",
      "name": "Skill A11y Audit",
      "url": "https://skilla11y.dev/",
      "repo": "skill-a11y-audit",
      "category": "open_pattern_or_spec",
      "vector": "agent_skills",
      "layer": "knowledge_infrastructure",
      "role": "Accessibility conformance checks for AI-generated web code and agent-authored interfaces."
    },
    {
      "id": "ai-posture",
      "name": "AI Posture",
      "url": "https://aiposture.org/",
      "repo": "ai-posture",
      "category": "open_pattern_or_spec",
      "vector": "combined_posture",
      "layer": "measurement",
      "aggregates": ["paice-work", "siteline"],
      "role": "Aggregated Intelligence Posture framework: aggregates the measurement-layer vector scores (People, Infrastructure) plus Regulation into one combined governance score bounded by the weakest vector."
    },
    {
      "id": "publedge",
      "name": "PubLedge",
      "url": "https://publedge.org/",
      "repo": "publedge",
      "category": "open_pattern_or_spec",
      "vector": "regulation",
      "layer": "legal_graph",
      "role": "Open protocol for civic recordkeeping and fact-specific regulatory interpretations."
    },
    {
      "id": "ai-incident-law",
      "name": "AI Incident Law",
      "url": "https://aiincidentlaw.org/",
      "repo": "ai-incident-law",
      "category": "open_pattern_or_spec",
      "vector": "regulation",
      "layer": "legal_graph",
      "role": "Curated public-record corpus of AI-related legal, regulatory, and enforcement matters."
    },
    {
      "id": "obligation-first",
      "name": "Obligation First",
      "url": "https://obligationfirst.org/",
      "repo": "obligation-first",
      "category": "open_pattern_or_spec",
      "vector": "regulation",
      "layer": "legal_graph",
      "role": "Shared upper schema and validation contract for the PAICE legal graph."
    },
    {
      "id": "guidecheck",
      "name": "GuideCheck",
      "url": "https://guidecheck.org/",
      "repo": "guidecheck",
      "category": "open_pattern_or_spec",
      "vector": "agent_standards",
      "layer": "agent_standards",
      "role": "Human-verifiable plain-text profile for assistant-facing install and setup guides."
    }
  ],
  "relationships": [
    {
      "id": "people_to_paice",
      "from": "people",
      "to": "paice-work",
      "relationship": "measured_by"
    },
    {
      "id": "infrastructure_to_siteline",
      "from": "infrastructure",
      "to": "siteline",
      "relationship": "measured_by"
    },
    {
      "id": "regulation_to_every_ai_law",
      "from": "regulation",
      "to": "every-ai-law",
      "relationship": "served_by"
    },
    {
      "id": "combined_posture_to_ai_posture",
      "from": "combined_posture",
      "to": "ai-posture",
      "relationship": "aggregated_by"
    },
    {
      "id": "legal_graph_schema",
      "from": "obligation-first",
      "to": ["every-ai-law", "publedge", "ai-incident-law"],
      "relationship": "normalizes"
    },
    {
      "id": "agent_instruction_trust",
      "from": "guidecheck",
      "to": ["graceful-boundaries", "skill-provenance", "turnfile"],
      "relationship": "complements"
    }
  ],
  "machine_resources": [
    {
      "name": "Agent onboarding",
      "url": "https://paice.foundation/agents/",
      "format": "html"
    },
    {
      "name": "Short machine index",
      "url": "https://paice.foundation/llms.txt",
      "format": "text/markdown"
    },
    {
      "name": "Full machine index",
      "url": "https://paice.foundation/llms-full.txt",
      "format": "text/markdown"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ontology",
      "url": "https://paice.foundation/ontology.json",
      "format": "application/json"
    },
    {
      "name": "Relationship graph",
      "url": "https://paice.foundation/relationships.yaml",
      "format": "text/yaml"
    },
    {
      "name": "GuideCheck assistant guide",
      "url": "https://paice.foundation/.well-known/assistant-guide.txt",
      "format": "text/plain"
    },
    {
      "name": "Agent capability manifest",
      "url": "https://paice.foundation/.well-known/agents.json",
      "format": "application/json"
    },
    {
      "name": "Static resource catalog",
      "url": "https://paice.foundation/api/v1/index.json",
      "format": "application/json"
    },
    {
      "name": "Portfolio change feed",
      "url": "https://paice.foundation/feed/index.xml",
      "format": "application/rss+xml"
    },
    {
      "name": "Security contact",
      "url": "https://paice.foundation/.well-known/security.txt",
      "format": "text/plain"
    }
  ],
  "self_conformance": [
    {
      "standard": "GuideCheck",
      "component_id": "guidecheck",
      "status": "conformant",
      "level": "3",
      "claim": "This site serves a Level 3 assistant guide at https://paice.foundation/.well-known/assistant-guide.txt and mirrors it at https://paice.foundation/assistant-guide.txt.",
      "caveat": "GuideCheck conformance verifies guide shape, not content safety."
    },
    {
      "standard": "Siteline",
      "component_id": "siteline",
      "status": "tracked",
      "claim": "This site is maintained against the Siteline agent-usability rubric.",
      "caveat": "Do not cite a public grade unless a current scan verifies it."
    },
    {
      "standard": "Graceful Boundaries",
      "component_id": "graceful-boundaries",
      "status": "not_applicable",
      "claim": "This static portfolio surface has no rate-limited service endpoint.",
      "caveat": "Siteline is the portfolio's Level 4 Graceful Boundaries reference implementation."
    }
  ],
  "semantic_boundaries": [
    "Not a vendor-owned AI governance wrapper.",
    "Not a generic AI education or productivity portfolio.",
    "Not a venture studio of unrelated products.",
    "Not employee surveillance.",
    "Not a claim that conformance artifacts prove safety."
  ]
}