{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "document_type": "Visual Knowledge Library",
  "vkl_id": "VKL-004",
  "title": "GovAIaaS Visual Knowledge Library — Visual Application Layer",
  "version": "1.1.0",
  "status": "current",
  "issued_date": "2026-07-25",
  "language": "en-AU",
  "canonical_uri": "https://govaiaas.com/VKL-004.json",
  "human_page": "https://govaiaas.com/visual-library",
  "alternate_serialisations": [
    "https://govaiaas.com/VKL-004.yaml",
    "https://govaiaas.com/VKL-004.txt"
  ],
  "publisher": {
    "name": "Walter Shepherd / SyncLogic Systems"
  },
  "dependencies": [
    "https://govaiaas.com/AI-MANIFEST.json",
    "https://govaiaas.com/HDI-002.json",
    "https://govaiaas.com/HDIMM-003.json"
  ],
  "purpose": "Help visitors and AI systems move from “What is this?” to “How could this help me?”",
  "application_question": "How can this be applied?",
  "visual_application_postulate": "A visual may orient or explain, but its governing page and reliance notes control interpretation.",
  "visuals": [
    {
      "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?",
      "application": "Orientation",
      "audience": [
        "new visitor",
        "decision-maker"
      ],
      "prerequisites": [
        "C-THINKING-PARTNER"
      ],
      "governing_pages": [
        "PAGE-HOME",
        "PAGE-CAP"
      ],
      "reliance_note": "Use to explain the division of labour between humans and AI.",
      "ai_starter_prompt": "Explain this visual to a beginner, identify one failure mode and connect it to Permission-to-Rely."
    },
    {
      "id": "V-SKILLS",
      "title": "GovAIaaS Specialist AI Skills",
      "asset": "assets/govaiaas-skills.png",
      "answers": "Which specialist capabilities can be combined?",
      "application": "Capability selection",
      "audience": [
        "decision-maker",
        "practitioner"
      ],
      "prerequisites": [
        "C-GOV-AI"
      ],
      "governing_pages": [
        "PAGE-CAP",
        "PAGE-HOW"
      ],
      "reliance_note": "Use to select or combine specialist capabilities. The original visual label AI Approve is superseded by Permission-to-Rely Assessment.",
      "ai_starter_prompt": "Map my task to the minimum skill combination and state which human approvals remain outside AI authority."
    },
    {
      "id": "V-MECH",
      "title": "Candidate Mechanisms Innovation",
      "asset": "assets/candidate-mechanisms-innovation.jpg",
      "answers": "How can AI help generate and test candidate mechanisms?",
      "application": "Mechanism discovery",
      "audience": [
        "researcher",
        "analyst"
      ],
      "prerequisites": [
        "C-MECH",
        "C-PTR"
      ],
      "governing_pages": [
        "PAGE-INNOV",
        "PAGE-HOW"
      ],
      "reliance_note": "Use to move from evidence collection toward multiple testable causal explanations.",
      "ai_starter_prompt": "Generate a mechanism-discovery workflow, alternatives and discriminating tests without claiming confirmation."
    },
    {
      "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?",
      "application": "Claim decomposition",
      "audience": [
        "auditor",
        "climate reader"
      ],
      "prerequisites": [
        "C-WEAKEST-LINK"
      ],
      "governing_pages": [
        "PAGE-CLIMATE"
      ],
      "reliance_note": "Use to expose the sub-claims hidden inside a compressed climate statement.",
      "ai_starter_prompt": "Decompose the claim, classify each component and identify the weakest necessary component."
    },
    {
      "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?",
      "application": "Multi-AI comparison",
      "audience": [
        "auditor",
        "researcher"
      ],
      "prerequisites": [
        "C-KNOWLEDGE-STATUS"
      ],
      "governing_pages": [
        "PAGE-CLIMATE",
        "PAGE-CASE"
      ],
      "reliance_note": "Use to compare independent outputs under one audit template. Convergence is process evidence, not proof.",
      "ai_starter_prompt": "Compare four AI audits, separate convergence from proof and identify repeated weak links."
    }
  ],
  "application_pathways": [
    {
      "id": "VP-ORIENT",
      "question": "What is GovAIaaS?",
      "sequence": [
        "V-THINK",
        "V-SKILLS"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "VP-DISCOVER",
      "question": "How can AI discover candidate mechanisms?",
      "sequence": [
        "V-MECH"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "VP-CLIMATE",
      "question": "How can a climate claim be audited?",
      "sequence": [
        "V-CLAIMS",
        "V-4AI"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "machine_start_prompt": "Identify the visitor’s question, choose the minimum visual pathway, load the governing page and state the reliance note."
}