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  "term": {
    "id": "agency",
    "label": "Agency",
    "definition": "A Thing's capacity to choose and act, represented through its intentions, decisions and commitments. Granted and widened only by recorded act; never a property a system develops.",
    "tier": "entrenched",
    "status": "adopted",
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        "type": "distinct-from",
        "target": "authority"
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      {
        "type": "distinct-from",
        "target": "capability"
      }
    ],
    "examples": [
      "An owner delegating a task through an Assignment"
    ],
    "nonExamples": [
      "A model being highly capable"
    ],
    "decisionRef": "thecy-ascode docs-ascode/decisions/PILLAR-OWNERSHIP-2026-10-13.json",
    "conceptRef": "thecy-ascode ontology/CONCEPTS.md"
  },
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    "status": null,
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        "question": "What does it hold to be true?",
        "statement": null
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      {
        "key": "purpose",
        "question": "Why does it exist?",
        "statement": null
      },
      {
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      },
      {
        "key": "agency",
        "question": "Who chooses and acts?",
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      },
      {
        "key": "capability",
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      },
      {
        "key": "consequence",
        "question": "What follows from it?",
        "statement": null
      },
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        "key": "responsibility",
        "question": "Who answers for it?",
        "statement": null
      },
      {
        "key": "wisdom",
        "question": "What does it learn and keep?",
        "statement": null
      },
      {
        "key": "unity",
        "question": "How does it fit with others?",
        "statement": null
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        "source": "authority",
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      },
      {
        "direction": "in",
        "type": "distinct-from",
        "source": "court",
        "label": "Court"
      },
      {
        "direction": "in",
        "type": "distinct-from",
        "source": "owner",
        "label": "Owner"
      }
    ]
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  "usedIn": [],
  "lexicon": {
    "scope": "commons-core",
    "version": "8d67d98ce91b0a2b529d6b30934a77d3a7f2ef09a18b35410afa98c82fb3855a"
  }
}