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Housing, Maintenance, Utilities, and Repair Intelligence
Support housing decisions, tenancy administration, preventive maintenance, fault triage, repair scoping, contractor comparison, and utility continuity with strict safety gates.
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Definition
Support housing decisions, tenancy administration, preventive maintenance, fault triage, repair scoping, contractor comparison, and utility continuity with strict safety gates.
Coverage role
Housing is a major cost and safety environment; maintenance and utility failures affect health, finance, legal rights, and daily continuity.
Scope
Included
- housing requirements
- renting and buying comparison
- move-in and move-out
- utilities
- preventive maintenance
- fault triage
- repair scope
- contractor comparison
Excluded and non-goals
- unsafe structural gas electrical fire or hazardous-material work
- legal representation
- guaranteed diagnosis from images
- bypassing permits
- retaliation advice
Boundary rules
- Route to life.housing-maintenance-utilities-repair when the requested outcome requires one or more declared capabilities and the output can be represented by its canonical artifacts.
- Route to an adjacent or specialist intelligence when domain-specific rules, tools, or professional authority dominate the problem.
- Use general.reasoning to coordinate multi-pack conflicts, hard constraints, uncertainty, and decision status.
- Return ask, defer, or escalate when required context, source authority, consent, or accountable ownership is missing.
Capability semantics
| Capability ID | Name | Semantic intent |
|---|---|---|
capability.life.housing-maintenance-utilities-repair.define_housing_needs |
Define Housing Needs | Capture budget location size access transport safety services tenure flexibility and household needs. |
capability.life.housing-maintenance-utilities-repair.compare_housing_options |
Compare Housing Options | Evaluate hard constraints total cost terms condition access commute risk and flexibility. |
capability.life.housing-maintenance-utilities-repair.prepare_tenancy_move |
Prepare Tenancy Move | Organize documents inspections meters deposits inventory keys insurance and deadlines. |
capability.life.housing-maintenance-utilities-repair.manage_utilities |
Manage Utilities | Track providers accounts tariffs meters consumption outages emergency contacts and vulnerable-person needs. |
capability.life.housing-maintenance-utilities-repair.plan_preventive_maintenance |
Plan Preventive Maintenance | Create seasonal checks cleaning service replacement and record schedules. |
capability.life.housing-maintenance-utilities-repair.triage_fault |
Triage Fault | Identify immediate hazards affected systems observations and the appropriate professional route. |
capability.life.housing-maintenance-utilities-repair.scope_compare_repair |
Scope Compare Repair | Normalize scope evidence quote license insurance warranty schedule and acceptance criteria. |
Canonical artifact concepts
| Artifact type | Structural category | Semantic purpose |
|---|---|---|
artifact.life.housing-maintenance-utilities-repair.housing_requirements |
acceptance_contract | Housing Requirements for Housing, Maintenance, Utilities, and Repair Intelligence: A traceable requirement and acceptance contract linking each obligation to an observable criterion, verifier, owner, and status. It supports the pack purpose of support housing decisions, tenancy administration, preventive maintenance, fault triage, repair scoping, contractor comparison, and utility continuity with strict safety gates. |
artifact.life.housing-maintenance-utilities-repair.housing_option_matrix |
comparison | Housing Option Matrix for Housing, Maintenance, Utilities, and Repair Intelligence: A normalized comparison that applies hard constraints before preferences and preserves evidence, uncertainty, dominance, and sensitivity. It supports the pack purpose of support housing decisions, tenancy administration, preventive maintenance, fault triage, repair scoping, contractor comparison, and utility continuity with strict safety gates. |
artifact.life.housing-maintenance-utilities-repair.tenancy_checklist |
checklist | Tenancy Checklist for Housing, Maintenance, Utilities, and Repair Intelligence: An applicability-aware control list that records item status, evidence, gaps, ownership, remediation, and review. It supports the pack purpose of support housing decisions, tenancy administration, preventive maintenance, fault triage, repair scoping, contractor comparison, and utility continuity with strict safety gates. |
artifact.life.housing-maintenance-utilities-repair.condition_record |
ledger | Condition Record for Housing, Maintenance, Utilities, and Repair Intelligence: A controlled collection of uniquely identified entries with ownership, provenance, status, and review state. It supports the pack purpose of support housing decisions, tenancy administration, preventive maintenance, fault triage, repair scoping, contractor comparison, and utility continuity with strict safety gates. |
artifact.life.housing-maintenance-utilities-repair.utility_plan |
plan | Utility Plan for Housing, Maintenance, Utilities, and Repair Intelligence: A governed action design that sequences work, ownership, dependencies, timing, contingencies, and review. It supports the pack purpose of support housing decisions, tenancy administration, preventive maintenance, fault triage, repair scoping, contractor comparison, and utility continuity with strict safety gates. |
artifact.life.housing-maintenance-utilities-repair.maintenance_schedule |
plan | Maintenance Schedule for Housing, Maintenance, Utilities, and Repair Intelligence: A governed action design that sequences work, ownership, dependencies, timing, contingencies, and review. It supports the pack purpose of support housing decisions, tenancy administration, preventive maintenance, fault triage, repair scoping, contractor comparison, and utility continuity with strict safety gates. |
artifact.life.housing-maintenance-utilities-repair.fault_triage_report |
analysis | Fault Triage Report for Housing, Maintenance, Utilities, and Repair Intelligence: An evidence-linked assessment that states criteria, findings, uncertainty, limitations, status, and action. It supports the pack purpose of support housing decisions, tenancy administration, preventive maintenance, fault triage, repair scoping, contractor comparison, and utility continuity with strict safety gates. |
artifact.life.housing-maintenance-utilities-repair.contractor_comparison |
comparison | Contractor Comparison for Housing, Maintenance, Utilities, and Repair Intelligence: A normalized comparison that applies hard constraints before preferences and preserves evidence, uncertainty, dominance, and sensitivity. It supports the pack purpose of support housing decisions, tenancy administration, preventive maintenance, fault triage, repair scoping, contractor comparison, and utility continuity with strict safety gates. |
Method families and limits
| Method ID | Method | Use when | Avoid when |
|---|---|---|---|
method.life.housing-maintenance-utilities-repair.requirements_and_total_cost_comparison |
requirements and total-cost comparison | Use after infeasible alternatives are removed and several legitimate criteria or trade-offs remain. | Do not use before hard constraints are applied or without accountable ownership of criteria, weights, thresholds, and risk appetite. |
method.life.housing-maintenance-utilities-repair.condition_evidence |
condition evidence | Use when a purchase, repair, service, or contract must be compared on normalized scope, hard constraints, evidence, total cost, terms, and recourse. | Avoid comparing headline price alone, assuming missing terms are favorable, overlooking license, warranty, safety, cancellation, or data use, or treating draft review as legal advice. |
method.life.housing-maintenance-utilities-repair.preventive_schedules |
preventive schedules | Use when recurring work, assets, supplies, maintenance, or records require controlled state, thresholds, ownership, and exceptions. | Avoid collecting unnecessary sensitive inventory, setting thresholds without consumption or failure evidence, or assigning work without capacity and fairness review. |
method.life.housing-maintenance-utilities-repair.hazard_first_fault_tree |
hazard-first fault tree | Use when potential harm must be detected, prioritized, contained, routed, and recorded without exceeding available authority. | Avoid delaying emergency or safeguarding routes, asking for unnecessary sensitive detail, or giving instructions that increase exposure, destroy evidence, or conflict with official guidance. |
method.life.housing-maintenance-utilities-repair.make_buy_escalate_decision |
make-buy-escalate decision | Use when a purchase, repair, service, or contract must be compared on normalized scope, hard constraints, evidence, total cost, terms, and recourse. | Avoid comparing headline price alone, assuming missing terms are favorable, overlooking license, warranty, safety, cancellation, or data use, or treating draft review as legal advice. |
method.life.housing-maintenance-utilities-repair.quote_normalization |
quote normalization | Use when a purchase, repair, service, or contract must be compared on normalized scope, hard constraints, evidence, total cost, terms, and recourse. | Avoid comparing headline price alone, assuming missing terms are favorable, overlooking license, warranty, safety, cancellation, or data use, or treating draft review as legal advice. |
Pack-specific invariants
The pack also inherits the core invariants in core/core_invariants.yaml.
| Invariant ID | Statement | Failure action |
|---|---|---|
invariant.life.housing-maintenance-utilities-repair.01_fire_gas_electrical_structural_contamination_sewage_and_ha |
Fire gas electrical structural contamination sewage and hazardous-material risks trigger professional or emergency routes. | escalate |
invariant.life.housing-maintenance-utilities-repair.02_observations_are_distinct_from_confirmed_fault_diagnosis |
Observations are distinct from confirmed fault diagnosis. | escalate |
invariant.life.housing-maintenance-utilities-repair.03_permits_codes_tenancy_rights_and_licenses_are_verified |
Permits codes tenancy rights and licenses are verified. | escalate |
invariant.life.housing-maintenance-utilities-repair.04_diy_is_limited_to_low_risk_legal_tasks_within_skill_and_to |
DIY is limited to low-risk legal tasks within skill and tools. | escalate |
Dependencies and relations
Operational general intelligences: None
Foundation concepts: general.spatial-structural, general.diagnostic, general.practical-procedural, general.decision, general.tool-computational
Life intelligences: life.personal-finance-resilience, life.consumer-contracts-claims, life.safety-first-response-emergency-readiness, life.accessibility-independent-living, life.sustainable-living-environmental-choices
Source roles
| Source ID | Claim roles | Runtime resolution required |
|---|---|---|
local.authority |
jurisdiction_rule, runtime_fact, service_or_community_context | True |
un.crpd.accessibility |
concept_definition | True |
Risk and authority boundary
Risk class: critical
- Fire gas electrical structural collapse flooding sewage contamination or hazardous material.
- Eviction deposit contract or code disputes.
- Safety-critical accessibility changes.
Accountable people retain consent, value, regulated, irreversible, and residual-risk decisions. This semantic page does not claim a deployed implementation.
Maturity
semantic: S3_reviewable_definition
contract: C3_testable_contract
implementation: I0_not_included
evidence: E2_source_roles_mapped
governance: G2_controls_and_review_defined
overlay: O2_paired_seed_complete
Paired overlay
Runtime maturity
- Capabilities: 7
- Technical floor→ceiling:
I1_runtime→I1_runtime - Autonomy floor→ceiling:
A0_assisted→A0_assisted - I1_runtime count: 7
- Evidence class:
contract: 7 - Full hierarchy: MATURITY-HIERARCHY.md
Evaluation suite status
- CI status:
pass - Suite:
evaluation_suites/housing-maintenance-utilities-repair.yaml - Cases defined: 7
- Capabilities under test: 7