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QUIET UTILITY CORPUS MASTER MATRIX

Status: DESIGN / RESEARCH — PRE-CAPTURE

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Status: DESIGN / RESEARCH — PRE-CAPTURE
Completed: USB-C compatibility ✓ · NYC curb applicability ✓ · Museum artwork ✓ · Bird taxonomy ✓ · Configuration-specific procedure ✓
Remaining: Regulated food term

Entry	Human question	Primary utility	Novel graph primitive	Status
USB-C / Thunderbolt	“Will these things actually work together?”	compositional compatibility	capability + requirement + limiting factor	✓
NYC curb	“Can I park here at this time?”	temporal applicability	rule activation + field observation	✓
Museum artwork	“What exactly is this object?”	persistent object identity	attribution + provenance + representation lineage	✓
Warbling Vireo taxonomy	“What species is this under which authority?”	versioned classification	taxon concept + observation reprojection	✓
Mac SMC troubleshooting	“Which instructions apply to my exact machine?”	procedural applicability	configuration predicate + ordered step graph + procedure diff	✓
Regulated food term	“What does this label legally mean here?”	governed definition	jurisdiction + threshold test	next

Five different knowledge computations

USB-C

capabilities + requirements → compatibility

NYC curb

place + time + active rules + observations → permission

Museum artwork

persistent object + source-indexed descriptions → versioned identity narrative

Bird taxonomy

observation + taxonomy authority + edition → classification projection

Mac procedure

resolved configuration + procedure edition + workflow state → applicable ordered steps

New distinctions introduced by procedure fixture

PROCEDURE_CORRECTNESS
    ≠
PROCEDURE_APPLICABILITY

and:

product family
    ≠
configuration identity

and:

same symptom
    ≠
same procedure

Current regression invariants

USB-C: A specification is not a score.

NYC curb: Removing evidence for prohibition is not evidence of permission.

Museum object: Preserve the thing while letting descriptions of the thing change.

Bird taxonomy: When classifications change, preserve the observation and version the interpretation.

Procedure: Never give a procedure before resolving what the procedure applies to.

Corpus-level thesis

Counterpedia makes ordinary knowledge executable by resolving the context that turns facts, rules, classifications, and instructions into applicable answers.