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DARF Capability Library
Capabilities are not independent — most carry a prerequisite, and a capability's maturity score is capped at its lowest prerequisite's score plus one. Root capabilities (no prerequisites) are the honest place to start an assessment.
Semantic Readiness
Can you trust the answer?
Semantic Integrity
- Naming conventionsRoot capability
- Entity resolutionNewRequires: Naming conventions
- Grain consistencyRequires: Entity resolution, Naming conventions
- Units currency time handlingRequires: Naming conventions
- Canonical metric definitionsRequires: Naming conventions, Grain consistency, Units/currency/time handling
- Measure sprawlRequires: Canonical metric definitions
- Semantic parity across surfacesNewRequires: Canonical metric definitions, Units/currency/time handling
Context Stability
- Ambiguous relationship handlingRequires: Entity resolution, Grain consistency
- Filter context correctnessRequires: Grain consistency, Ambiguous relationship handling
- RLS designRequires: Entity resolution, Grain consistency
- Time intelligenceRequires: Units/currency/time handling, Grain consistency
- Freshness recency requirementsRequires: Lineage
Analytical Explainability
- LineageRequires: Naming conventions
- Drivers vs correlationRequires: Lineage, Canonical metric definitions
- Contribution analysisRequires: Canonical metric definitions, Grain consistency
- Narrative-ready model designRequires: Canonical metric definitions, Contribution analysis
AI Readiness & Interoperability
- AI-readable schema designRequires: Naming conventions, Canonical metric definitions
- Ontology-vs-semantic-model decision criteriaRequires: Entity resolution, Canonical metric definitions
- Semantic contractsRequires: AI-readable schema design, Canonical metric definitions
- Change safety and versioningRequires: Semantic contracts, Lineage
- Unstructured content readinessNewRequires: Naming conventions, Entity resolution
- Procedural knowledge captureNewRequires: Unstructured content readiness
- Conversational and collaboration contextNewRequires: Unstructured content readiness
- RAG grounding qualityRequires: AI-readable schema design, Unstructured content readiness
- Minimum sufficient contextRequires: AI-readable schema design, RAG grounding quality, Semantic contracts
- Adversarial context integrityRequires: Minimum sufficient context, RAG grounding quality
- Evaluation hallucination-surface reductionRequires: Canonical metric definitions, RAG grounding quality, Minimum sufficient context
Operational Readiness
Can you trust the system to act on it?
State
- Live vs snapshot dataRequires: Freshness/recency requirements
- State binding correctnessRequires: Live vs. snapshot data, Entity resolution
- Latency requirements by use caseRequires: Live vs. snapshot data
Policy
- Agent identity and delegationNewRoot capability
- Explicit authority grantsRequires: Agent identity and delegation
- Scoped limitsRequires: Explicit authority grants
- Query admissibilityNewRequires: Scoped limits, AI-readable schema design
- Automation authority and handbackNewRequires: Explicit authority grants, Scoped limits
- Escalation pathsRequires: Automation authority and handback
- Policy-as-code patternsRequires: Explicit authority grants, Scoped limits
- Policy change governanceNewRequires: Explicit authority grants, Agent identity and delegation
Execution
- Vendor-agnostic execution-layer selectionRoot capability
- Model capability validationNewRequires: Vendor-agnostic execution-layer selection, Action scoping
- Intelligence routingRequires: Vendor-agnostic execution-layer selection, Query admissibility, Procedural knowledge capture
- Action scopingRequires: Explicit authority grants, Scoped limits
- Reversibility and compensating actionNewRequires: Action scoping, State binding correctness
- Failure handlingRequires: Action scoping, Reversibility and compensating action
- Multi-agent conflict and concurrencyNewRequires: State binding correctness, Action scoping
- Shadow mode and staged autonomyNewRequires: Action scoping, Automation authority and handback, Evaluation/hallucination-surface reduction
- Cost per decisionNewRequires: Intelligence routing, Minimum sufficient context
- Response reuse and cache admissibilityNewRequires: RLS design, Live vs snapshot data, Change safety and versioning
Audit
- Telemetry designRoot capability
- Decision loggingRequires: Telemetry design, Intelligence routing
- Accountability trailsRequires: Decision logging, Agent identity and delegation
- Retrospective causalityRequires: Decision logging, Lineage, State binding correctness, Change safety and versioning
- Decision-outcome feedbackNewRequires: Decision logging, Canonical metric definitions