Software

Software as a living system — and a pressure test of the Atlas ontology

Registry explorer

How should software data that Atlas cannot yet observe be represented?

dec.mocked-labelling

Decisions

How should software data that Atlas cannot yet observe be represented? Live GitHub, registry and deployment data is not connected to this surface. Typed absence with explicit unknown reasons Every registry card can show Unknown as an inspectable state and generate a question.

decisionsreleasedreversible

Platform

not declared

Licence

undeclared

Declared date

2026-08-22

Category listing

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Fields and provenance

at

2026-08-22observed · this build

question

How should software data that Atlas cannot yet observe be represented?

context

Live GitHub, registry and deployment data is not connected to this surface.

optionsConsidered

  • Plausible placeholder values
  • Empty states
  • Typed absence with explicit unknown reasons

chosen

Typed absence with explicit unknown reasonsdeclared · src/modules/software/types.ts

rejected

  • Plausible placeholder values
  • Empty states

evidence

  • Preserve the Path doctrine
  • C17 absence kinds

constraintIds

  • con.no-fabrication

consequence

Every registry card can show Unknown as an inspectable state and generate a question.declared · src/modules/software

reversibility

reversible

responsibleParty

Atlasobserved · this build

linkedEventIds

  • evt.software-hub

linkedObservationIds

none declared

reassessment

Unknown · not-yet-declared

lifecycle

released

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Decisions

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  • dec.mocked-labelling — released · How should software data that Atlas cannot yet observe be represented?

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