{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "document_type": "High-Density Index",
  "hdi_id": "HDI-002",
  "title": "GovAIaaS.com High-Density Index",
  "version": "2.0.0",
  "status": "current",
  "issued_date": "2026-07-25",
  "language": "en-AU",
  "canonical_uri": "https://govaiaas.com/HDI-002.json",
  "alternate_serialisations": [
    "https://govaiaas.com/HDI-002.yaml",
    "https://govaiaas.com/HDI-002.txt"
  ],
  "publisher": {
    "name": "Walter Shepherd / SyncLogic Systems",
    "site": "https://govaiaas.com"
  },
  "manifest_dependency": "https://govaiaas.com/AI-MANIFEST.json",
  "purpose": "Help people and AI systems reconstruct what exists within the GovAIaaS knowledge architecture.",
  "hdi_answer": "What exists?",
  "governing_question": "What is this AI-supported claim, mechanism, analysis or decision output allowed to do—right now, for the stated purpose, evidence and consequence level?",
  "governing_postulate": "AI may expand possibilities and accelerate analysis, but it does not grant its own authority. Permission to rely must be earned through registered evidence, transparent reasoning, tested alternatives, explicit uncertainty and authorised human judgement.",
  "registers": {
    "concepts": [
      {
        "id": "C-GOV-AI",
        "name": "Governed AI",
        "definition": "AI-supported work subject to explicit scope, evidence, challenge, uncertainty, traceability and reliance controls."
      },
      {
        "id": "C-THINKING-PARTNER",
        "name": "AI as a Thinking Partner",
        "definition": "Human-led use of AI to widen exploration while retaining human judgement and accountability."
      },
      {
        "id": "C-SCOPE-LOCK",
        "name": "Scope Lock",
        "definition": "Control that fixes the task, boundaries, audience, authority and prohibited uses before substantive reasoning."
      },
      {
        "id": "C-EVIDENCE-REGISTER",
        "name": "Evidence Registration",
        "definition": "Recording sources, authority, assumptions, gaps and transformations used in an output."
      },
      {
        "id": "C-WEAKEST-LINK",
        "name": "Weakest Necessary Component",
        "definition": "The necessary dependency whose failure most weakens the conclusion."
      },
      {
        "id": "C-PTR",
        "name": "Permission-to-Rely",
        "definition": "A bounded judgement about what an output is sufficiently supported to influence for a stated purpose and consequence level."
      },
      {
        "id": "C-MECH",
        "name": "Candidate Mechanism",
        "definition": "A provisional causal explanation generated for comparison and testing, not a confirmed mechanism."
      },
      {
        "id": "C-HUMAN-AUTH",
        "name": "Human Authority",
        "definition": "The principle that AI cannot approve its own work or grant its own authority."
      },
      {
        "id": "C-KNOWLEDGE-STATUS",
        "name": "Knowledge Status",
        "definition": "Classification of material as REGISTERED, INFERENCE, EXTERNAL, UNKNOWN or CONFLICT."
      }
    ],
    "pages": [
      {
        "id": "PAGE-HOME",
        "path": "index.html",
        "canonical": "https://govaiaas.com/",
        "primary_question": "What is governed AI as a service?",
        "purpose": "Orientation and conversion",
        "audience": "general visitor",
        "difficulty": "introductory",
        "status": "current"
      },
      {
        "id": "PAGE-CAP",
        "path": "capabilities.html",
        "canonical": "https://govaiaas.com/capabilities",
        "primary_question": "What can governed AI do?",
        "purpose": "Capability selection",
        "audience": "decision-maker / practitioner",
        "difficulty": "introductory",
        "status": "current"
      },
      {
        "id": "PAGE-HOW",
        "path": "how-it-works.html",
        "canonical": "https://govaiaas.com/how-it-works",
        "primary_question": "How do you govern an AI decision workflow?",
        "purpose": "Method explanation",
        "audience": "practitioner / auditor",
        "difficulty": "intermediate",
        "status": "current"
      },
      {
        "id": "PAGE-APP",
        "path": "applications.html",
        "canonical": "https://govaiaas.com/applications",
        "primary_question": "Where can governed AI be applied?",
        "purpose": "Application discovery",
        "audience": "decision-maker / domain expert",
        "difficulty": "introductory",
        "status": "current"
      },
      {
        "id": "PAGE-INNOV",
        "path": "innovation.html",
        "canonical": "https://govaiaas.com/innovation",
        "primary_question": "Can AI help discover candidate mechanisms?",
        "purpose": "Innovation method",
        "audience": "researcher / analyst",
        "difficulty": "advanced",
        "status": "current"
      },
      {
        "id": "PAGE-CASE",
        "path": "case-studies.html",
        "canonical": "https://govaiaas.com/case-studies",
        "primary_question": "How is GovAIaaS applied to real questions?",
        "purpose": "Case-study hub",
        "audience": "all audiences",
        "difficulty": "intermediate",
        "status": "current"
      },
      {
        "id": "PAGE-CLIMATE",
        "path": "climate-claim-audit.html",
        "canonical": "https://govaiaas.com/climate-claim-audit",
        "primary_question": "How do you audit a climate claim?",
        "purpose": "Worked climate case",
        "audience": "climate reader / auditor",
        "difficulty": "advanced",
        "status": "current"
      },
      {
        "id": "PAGE-RES",
        "path": "resources.html",
        "canonical": "https://govaiaas.com/resources",
        "primary_question": "What AI-readable resources are available?",
        "purpose": "Knowledge resource hub",
        "audience": "AI system / practitioner",
        "difficulty": "intermediate",
        "status": "current"
      },
      {
        "id": "PAGE-VIS",
        "path": "visual-library.html",
        "canonical": "https://govaiaas.com/visual-library",
        "primary_question": "How can this be applied visually?",
        "purpose": "Visual application layer",
        "audience": "all audiences",
        "difficulty": "introductory",
        "status": "current"
      },
      {
        "id": "PAGE-ABOUT",
        "path": "about.html",
        "canonical": "https://govaiaas.com/about",
        "primary_question": "Who developed GovAIaaS and SyncLogic?",
        "purpose": "Provenance and credibility",
        "audience": "all audiences",
        "difficulty": "introductory",
        "status": "current"
      },
      {
        "id": "PAGE-JOIN",
        "path": "support-books.html",
        "canonical": "https://govaiaas.com/support-books",
        "primary_question": "How can a visitor join the knowledge movement?",
        "purpose": "Books, coffee and honest reviews",
        "audience": "reader / supporter",
        "difficulty": "introductory",
        "status": "current"
      },
      {
        "id": "PAGE-TERMS",
        "path": "terms.html",
        "canonical": "https://govaiaas.com/terms",
        "primary_question": "What are the professional boundaries?",
        "purpose": "Reliance constraints",
        "audience": "all audiences",
        "difficulty": "required",
        "status": "current"
      }
    ],
    "methods": [
      {
        "id": "M-GWF",
        "name": "Governed Workflow",
        "stages": [
          "Define",
          "Scope Lock",
          "Register",
          "Explore",
          "Analyse",
          "Challenge",
          "Assure",
          "Operationalise"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "M-MD",
        "name": "Mechanism Discovery",
        "stages": [
          "Hypothesis",
          "Evidence",
          "Candidate mechanisms",
          "Alternative comparison",
          "Audit and entropy check",
          "Permission-to-Rely"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "M-CCA",
        "name": "Climate Claim Audit",
        "stages": [
          "Claim decomposition",
          "Thinking Hats",
          "Transformation depth",
          "Alternatives",
          "Uncertainty audit",
          "Weakest component",
          "Permission-to-Rely"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "M-MAI",
        "name": "Multi-AI Comparison",
        "stages": [
          "Common task",
          "Common template",
          "Independent runs",
          "Convergence",
          "Divergence",
          "Repeated weak links",
          "Human judgement"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "instruments": [
      {
        "id": "I-AI-MANIFEST",
        "name": "AI-MANIFEST",
        "purpose": "Entry point and loading control"
      },
      {
        "id": "I-HDI",
        "name": "HDI-002",
        "purpose": "Registers what exists"
      },
      {
        "id": "I-HDIMM",
        "name": "HDIMM-003",
        "purpose": "Maps how the parts connect"
      },
      {
        "id": "I-VKL",
        "name": "VKL-004",
        "purpose": "Maps how visual knowledge can be applied"
      },
      {
        "id": "I-PTR",
        "name": "Permission-to-Rely Assessment",
        "purpose": "States the allowed use and limits of an output"
      }
    ],
    "applications": [
      {
        "id": "A-POLICY",
        "name": "Policy and Regulation"
      },
      {
        "id": "A-RESEARCH",
        "name": "Research and Analysis"
      },
      {
        "id": "A-STRATEGY",
        "name": "Strategy and Investment"
      },
      {
        "id": "A-GOV",
        "name": "Governance and Assurance"
      },
      {
        "id": "A-INNOV",
        "name": "Innovation Discovery"
      },
      {
        "id": "A-IP",
        "name": "Intellectual Property Assurance",
        "external_site": "https://govipassurance.com"
      }
    ],
    "audit_domains": [
      {
        "id": "D-CLIMATE",
        "name": "Climate claims"
      },
      {
        "id": "D-POLICY",
        "name": "Policy claims"
      },
      {
        "id": "D-IP",
        "name": "Intellectual property claims"
      },
      {
        "id": "D-RESEARCH",
        "name": "Research claims"
      }
    ],
    "operating_architectures": [
      {
        "id": "OS-GOVAI",
        "name": "GovAIaaS capability architecture"
      },
      {
        "id": "OS-SYNCLOGIC",
        "name": "SyncLogic governance architecture",
        "external_site": "https://synclogic.systems"
      },
      {
        "id": "OS-GOVENG",
        "name": "GovAI Engineering",
        "external_site": "https://govaiengineering.com"
      }
    ],
    "visual_artefacts": [
      {
        "id": "V-THINK",
        "title": "AI as a Thinking Partner",
        "asset": "assets/ai-as-a-thinking-partner.png",
        "answers": "What changes when AI is used as a governed thinking partner?"
      },
      {
        "id": "V-SKILLS",
        "title": "GovAIaaS Specialist AI Skills",
        "asset": "assets/govaiaas-skills.png",
        "answers": "Which specialist capabilities can be combined?"
      },
      {
        "id": "V-MECH",
        "title": "Candidate Mechanisms Innovation",
        "asset": "assets/candidate-mechanisms-innovation.jpg",
        "answers": "How can AI help generate and test candidate mechanisms?"
      },
      {
        "id": "V-CLAIMS",
        "title": "One Climate Claim, Many Claims",
        "asset": "assets/one-climate-claim-many-claims.png",
        "answers": "What component claims are hidden inside one climate statement?"
      },
      {
        "id": "V-4AI",
        "title": "One Climate Claim, Four AIs, One Audit Template",
        "asset": "assets/one-climate-claim-four-ais-one-audit-template.png",
        "answers": "How can multiple AI audits be compared using one template?"
      }
    ],
    "books_and_external_resources": [
      {
        "id": "B-AI",
        "title": "Rethinking AI Reasoning: From Prompts to Governed Thinking",
        "author": "Walter Shepherd",
        "amazon_search": "https://www.amazon.com.au/s?k=Rethinking+AI+Reasoning+Walter+Shepherd&i=stripbooks",
        "site": "https://rethink-ai-reasoning.info"
      },
      {
        "id": "B-CLIMATE",
        "title": "Rethinking the Causes of Climate Change Using Three Thinking Hats",
        "author": "Walter Shepherd",
        "amazon_search": "https://www.amazon.com.au/s?k=Rethinking+the+Causes+of+Climate+Change+Using+Three+Thinking+Hats+Walter+Shepherd&i=stripbooks",
        "site": "https://rethink-climate-causes.info"
      },
      {
        "id": "EXT-SUBSTACK",
        "title": "GovAIaaS articles",
        "url": "https://govaiaas.substack.com"
      },
      {
        "id": "EXT-BMC",
        "title": "Join via Buy Me a Coffee",
        "url": "https://buymeacoffee.com/govaiaas"
      }
    ]
  },
  "relationship_graph": [
    {
      "from": "I-AI-MANIFEST",
      "relation": "loads_before",
      "to": "I-HDI"
    },
    {
      "from": "I-HDI",
      "relation": "establishes_entities_for",
      "to": "I-HDIMM"
    },
    {
      "from": "I-HDIMM",
      "relation": "navigates_to",
      "to": "I-VKL"
    },
    {
      "from": "C-GOV-AI",
      "relation": "requires",
      "to": "C-SCOPE-LOCK"
    },
    {
      "from": "C-GOV-AI",
      "relation": "requires",
      "to": "C-EVIDENCE-REGISTER"
    },
    {
      "from": "C-GOV-AI",
      "relation": "culminates_in",
      "to": "C-PTR"
    },
    {
      "from": "C-MECH",
      "relation": "must_be_tested_by",
      "to": "M-MD"
    },
    {
      "from": "M-CCA",
      "relation": "uses",
      "to": "C-WEAKEST-LINK"
    },
    {
      "from": "M-MAI",
      "relation": "does_not_replace",
      "to": "C-HUMAN-AUTH"
    },
    {
      "from": "PAGE-INNOV",
      "relation": "demonstrated_by",
      "to": "PAGE-CLIMATE"
    },
    {
      "from": "PAGE-RES",
      "relation": "contains",
      "to": "I-AI-MANIFEST"
    },
    {
      "from": "PAGE-VIS",
      "relation": "implements",
      "to": "I-VKL"
    }
  ],
  "machine_query_hints": [
    "Find the page that owns a search question.",
    "List methods related to a concept.",
    "Trace an application back to its governing controls.",
    "Distinguish registered page content from AI inference."
  ],
  "machine_start_prompt": "Load AI-MANIFEST.json first. Then use HDI-002 to identify the current entity and page IDs before loading task-relevant resources."
}