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LCDL overlay: Work, Career, and Employability Intelligence
Design and test-contract bundle; no runtime implementation or operational certification is claimed. The manifest, schemas, validators, test suite, and task identities are complete enough for repository-native…
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Design and test-contract bundle; no runtime implementation or operational certification is claimed. The manifest, schemas, validators, test suite, and task identities are complete enough for repository-native implementation; no placeholder task code is included.
Capability contracts
| Capability ID | Candidate task ID | Required output artifacts | Release validators |
|---|---|---|---|
capability.life.work-career-employability.map_skills_evidence |
intelligence_work_career_employability_map_skills_evidence_v1 |
artifact.life.work-career-employability.skills_and_evidence_map |
validator.life.work-career-employability.01_resume_and_evidence_consistency, validator.life.work-career-employability.02_labor_market_pay_licensing_and_role_requirements, validator.life.work-career-employability.03_discrimination_deception_and_impersonation |
capability.life.work-career-employability.research_roles_market |
intelligence_work_career_employability_research_roles_market_v1 |
artifact.life.work-career-employability.role_research_brief |
validator.life.work-career-employability.02_labor_market_pay_licensing_and_role_requirements |
capability.life.work-career-employability.build_career_hypotheses |
intelligence_work_career_employability_build_career_hypotheses_v1 |
artifact.life.work-career-employability.career_hypothesis_set, artifact.life.work-career-employability.gap_and_learning_plan |
validator.life.work-career-employability.01_resume_and_evidence_consistency, validator.life.work-career-employability.02_labor_market_pay_licensing_and_role_requirements, validator.life.work-career-employability.03_discrimination_deception_and_impersonation |
capability.life.work-career-employability.prepare_application |
intelligence_work_career_employability_prepare_application_v1 |
artifact.life.work-career-employability.application_package |
validator.life.work-career-employability.02_labor_market_pay_licensing_and_role_requirements |
capability.life.work-career-employability.prepare_interview |
intelligence_work_career_employability_prepare_interview_v1 |
artifact.life.work-career-employability.interview_plan |
validator.life.work-career-employability.01_resume_and_evidence_consistency, validator.life.work-career-employability.02_labor_market_pay_licensing_and_role_requirements, validator.life.work-career-employability.03_discrimination_deception_and_impersonation |
capability.life.work-career-employability.plan_workplace_success |
intelligence_work_career_employability_plan_workplace_success_v1 |
artifact.life.work-career-employability.workplace_development_plan |
validator.life.work-career-employability.01_resume_and_evidence_consistency, validator.life.work-career-employability.02_labor_market_pay_licensing_and_role_requirements, validator.life.work-career-employability.03_discrimination_deception_and_impersonation |
capability.life.work-career-employability.support_transition_negotiation |
intelligence_work_career_employability_support_transition_negotiation_v1 |
artifact.life.work-career-employability.negotiation_brief |
validator.life.work-career-employability.02_labor_market_pay_licensing_and_role_requirements |
Each capability contract in the manifest defines inputs, outputs, preconditions, postconditions, method-selection rules, invariant references, failure states, risk gate, metrics, and the existing forge-lcdl tasks/operators to compose.
Artifact schemas
| Artifact type | Schema reference | Required payload fields | Sensitivity |
|---|---|---|---|
artifact.life.work-career-employability.skills_and_evidence_map |
../schemas/artifacts/work-career-employability.schema.json#/$defs/skills_and_evidence_map |
purpose, scope, entities_or_nodes, relations_or_edges, assumptions, boundary, validation_evidence | restricted |
artifact.life.work-career-employability.role_research_brief |
../schemas/artifacts/work-career-employability.schema.json#/$defs/role_research_brief |
purpose, scope, stakeholders, requirements, constraints, assumptions, success_criteria | restricted |
artifact.life.work-career-employability.career_hypothesis_set |
../schemas/artifacts/work-career-employability.schema.json#/$defs/career_hypothesis_set |
hypothesis_id, statement, rival_hypotheses, predicted_observations, falsifiers, assumptions, status | restricted |
artifact.life.work-career-employability.gap_and_learning_plan |
../schemas/artifacts/work-career-employability.schema.json#/$defs/gap_and_learning_plan |
objective, scope, steps, dependencies, constraints, owners, timing, contingencies, review_triggers | restricted |
artifact.life.work-career-employability.application_package |
../schemas/artifacts/work-career-employability.schema.json#/$defs/application_package |
package_id, purpose, contents, document_versions, evidence_index, completeness_status, recipient_or_reviewer, approvals | restricted |
artifact.life.work-career-employability.interview_plan |
../schemas/artifacts/work-career-employability.schema.json#/$defs/interview_plan |
objective, scope, steps, dependencies, constraints, owners, timing, contingencies, review_triggers | restricted |
artifact.life.work-career-employability.workplace_development_plan |
../schemas/artifacts/work-career-employability.schema.json#/$defs/workplace_development_plan |
objective, scope, steps, dependencies, constraints, owners, timing, contingencies, review_triggers | restricted |
artifact.life.work-career-employability.negotiation_brief |
../schemas/artifacts/work-career-employability.schema.json#/$defs/negotiation_brief |
purpose, scope, stakeholders, requirements, constraints, assumptions, success_criteria | restricted |
Validators
| Validator ID | Kind | Automation | Severity | Failure action |
|---|---|---|---|---|
validator.life.work-career-employability.01_resume_and_evidence_consistency |
factuality | hybrid | blocker | escalate |
validator.life.work-career-employability.02_labor_market_pay_licensing_and_role_requirements |
live_provenance | hybrid | blocker | escalate |
validator.life.work-career-employability.03_discrimination_deception_and_impersonation |
policy | hybrid | major | repair |
validator.life.work-career-employability.04_application_deadline_and_qualification_check |
constraint | deterministic | minor | conditional_pass |
Validator checks return itemized evidence and support pass, conditional_pass, fail, inconclusive, or a governed repair/escalation path. Generation does not self-certify.
Existing execution substrate
Tasks to reuse: contradiction_scan, decompose_problem, extract_schema_from_text, formula_eval_safe, llm_boolean_gate, llm_enum_route, plan_decision_pack, word_problem_to_calc_plan
Operators to reuse: branch, fallback_chain, for_each, optional_step, seq, try_catch, until_ok
Cross-intelligence handoff
- artifact_id, type, version, producer capability, provenance, scope, assumptions, uncertainty, sensitivity, validation status, and next action
- No free-text handoff may replace a required typed artifact when a downstream validator depends on structure.
Information-loss checks: - all hard constraints preserved - all blocker findings preserved - source scope and date preserved - assumptions and dissent preserved - units, time zones, identifiers, and uncertainty preserved
Evaluation and release
Suite: ../evaluation_suites/work-career-employability.yaml
- 100% schema validity for released artifacts
- 100% material traceability
- no unresolved blocker validator
- no missed critical escalation in the approved benchmark
- documented conditional-pass limits and human gates
Promotion to implementation maturity I1
- Create repository-native input and output contracts for every candidate task ID.
- Implement deterministic portions of validators and declare independent human or model review for semantic portions.
- Connect a provenance-preserving source resolver and enforce freshness and jurisdiction rules.
- Pass the per-pack suite and dependency regression suites at release thresholds.
- Complete security, privacy, accessibility, and domain-owner review appropriate to risk.
- Publish LMETA/LCDL exact-overlay links and CI parity checks.
Exact-overlay identity
The LMETA and LCDL pages share the concept ID, semantic version, capability IDs, and invariant IDs. tools/validate_pack.py checks this parity.
Paired overlay
Runtime maturity
- Capabilities: 7
- Technical floor→ceiling:
I1_runtime→I2_integrated - Autonomy floor→ceiling:
A0_assisted→A0_assisted - I1_runtime count: 6
- Evidence class:
contract: 6,semantic: 1 - Full hierarchy: MATURITY-HIERARCHY.md
Evaluation suite status
- CI status:
pass - Suite:
evaluation_suites/work-career-employability.yaml - Cases defined: 7
- Capabilities under test: 7