Identity-Capability Model

Status: Working draft

Purpose

This reference defines the FE-008 distinction between artifact identity and artifact capabilities.

Core Distinctions

Identity answers: "What is this?"

Capabilities answer: "What can it do?"

Composition answers: "How does it work?"

Domain answers: "Where is it applied?"

Rules

• Identity is determined by dominant purpose.
• Capabilities may overlap across different identities.
• Composition should be recorded only when reasoning structure exists.
• Framework Grammar and Primitive Cognitive Operations belong under composition.
• Identity and capabilities should not be conflated.

Use

The Identity-Capability Model supports:

• KACS
• blind review
• corpus schema
• artifact boundary analysis
• future FE-008 measurement work