Handbook
Movement, Fitness, and Physical Function Intelligence
Support safe and accessible physical-activity planning, progressive practice, recovery, and functional goals while recognizing injury and medical-clearance needs.
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Definition
Support safe and accessible physical-activity planning, progressive practice, recovery, and functional goals while recognizing injury and medical-clearance needs.
Coverage role
Movement supports daily function, independence, recreation, and health across the life course.
Scope
Included
- goal and context assessment
- activity plan design
- progression and recovery
- technique and environment cues
- adaptive activity
- tracking
- red-flag routing
Excluded and non-goals
- diagnosing injury
- unsupervised rehabilitation
- unsafe extreme training
- guaranteeing performance
- body-shaming or disordered-exercise reinforcement
Boundary rules
- Route to life.movement-fitness-physical-function 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.movement-fitness-physical-function.assess_movement_context |
Assess Movement Context | Capture current activity, function, health restrictions, equipment, environment, time, preferences, and warnings. |
capability.life.movement-fitness-physical-function.design_activity_plan |
Design Activity Plan | Build a balanced plan for aerobic activity, strength, mobility, balance, skill, and daily movement. |
capability.life.movement-fitness-physical-function.plan_progression_recovery |
Plan Progression Recovery | Set manageable changes in frequency, intensity, time, type, rest, and review. |
capability.life.movement-fitness-physical-function.adapt_activity |
Adapt Activity | Modify tasks, equipment, environment, communication, and pacing for access needs. |
capability.life.movement-fitness-physical-function.support_technique_safety |
Support Technique Safety | Provide non-diagnostic setup, warm-up, surface, weather, equipment, and stop-condition cues. |
capability.life.movement-fitness-physical-function.track_response |
Track Response | Record effort, completion, pain, fatigue, sleep, and functional change. |
capability.life.movement-fitness-physical-function.recognize_red_flags |
Recognize Red Flags | Identify symptoms or contexts requiring stopping, urgent care, or professional assessment. |
Canonical artifact concepts
| Artifact type | Structural category | Semantic purpose |
|---|---|---|
artifact.life.movement-fitness-physical-function.movement_and_function_profile |
context_profile | Movement And Function Profile for Movement, Fitness, and Physical Function Intelligence: A bounded context profile that separates observations, preferences, constraints, uncertainty, time scope, and next questions. It supports the pack purpose of support safe and accessible physical-activity planning, progressive practice, recovery, and functional goals while recognizing injury and medical-clearance needs. |
artifact.life.movement-fitness-physical-function.activity_plan |
plan | Activity Plan for Movement, Fitness, and Physical Function Intelligence: A governed action design that sequences work, ownership, dependencies, timing, contingencies, and review. It supports the pack purpose of support safe and accessible physical-activity planning, progressive practice, recovery, and functional goals while recognizing injury and medical-clearance needs. |
artifact.life.movement-fitness-physical-function.progression_and_recovery_plan |
plan | Progression And Recovery Plan for Movement, Fitness, and Physical Function Intelligence: A governed action design that sequences work, ownership, dependencies, timing, contingencies, and review. It supports the pack purpose of support safe and accessible physical-activity planning, progressive practice, recovery, and functional goals while recognizing injury and medical-clearance needs. |
artifact.life.movement-fitness-physical-function.adaptation_plan |
plan | Adaptation Plan for Movement, Fitness, and Physical Function Intelligence: A governed action design that sequences work, ownership, dependencies, timing, contingencies, and review. It supports the pack purpose of support safe and accessible physical-activity planning, progressive practice, recovery, and functional goals while recognizing injury and medical-clearance needs. |
artifact.life.movement-fitness-physical-function.safety_checklist |
checklist | Safety Checklist for Movement, Fitness, and Physical Function Intelligence: An applicability-aware control list that records item status, evidence, gaps, ownership, remediation, and review. It supports the pack purpose of support safe and accessible physical-activity planning, progressive practice, recovery, and functional goals while recognizing injury and medical-clearance needs. |
artifact.life.movement-fitness-physical-function.movement_log |
ledger | Movement Log for Movement, Fitness, and Physical Function Intelligence: A controlled collection of uniquely identified entries with ownership, provenance, status, and review state. It supports the pack purpose of support safe and accessible physical-activity planning, progressive practice, recovery, and functional goals while recognizing injury and medical-clearance needs. |
artifact.life.movement-fitness-physical-function.escalation_route |
decision | Escalation Route for Movement, Fitness, and Physical Function Intelligence: A bounded decision or routing record that exposes alternatives, governing constraints, evidence, rationale, ownership, status, and reopening conditions. It supports the pack purpose of support safe and accessible physical-activity planning, progressive practice, recovery, and functional goals while recognizing injury and medical-clearance needs. |
Method families and limits
| Method ID | Method | Use when | Avoid when |
|---|---|---|---|
method.life.movement-fitness-physical-function.frequency_intensity_time_type_structure |
frequency-intensity-time-type structure | Use to organize observations, function, routines, burden, goals, and questions for self-management or professional review without diagnosing or prescribing. | Avoid delaying urgent care, changing medication or treatment, using population guidance as personalized clearance, or ignoring consent, capacity, contraindications, and caregiver burden. |
method.life.movement-fitness-physical-function.gradual_progression |
gradual progression | Use to organize observations, function, routines, burden, goals, and questions for self-management or professional review without diagnosing or prescribing. | Avoid delaying urgent care, changing medication or treatment, using population guidance as personalized clearance, or ignoring consent, capacity, contraindications, and caregiver burden. |
method.life.movement-fitness-physical-function.perceived_exertion_monitoring |
perceived-exertion monitoring | Use to organize observations, function, routines, burden, goals, and questions for self-management or professional review without diagnosing or prescribing. | Avoid delaying urgent care, changing medication or treatment, using population guidance as personalized clearance, or ignoring consent, capacity, contraindications, and caregiver burden. |
method.life.movement-fitness-physical-function.functional_goal_analysis |
functional-goal analysis | Use to organize observations, function, routines, burden, goals, and questions for self-management or professional review without diagnosing or prescribing. | Avoid delaying urgent care, changing medication or treatment, using population guidance as personalized clearance, or ignoring consent, capacity, contraindications, and caregiver burden. |
method.life.movement-fitness-physical-function.accessibility_adaptation |
accessibility adaptation | Use when participation depends on interaction between a person, task, environment, interface, support, and changing context. | Avoid assuming one impairment profile, choosing assistive options without the person, or treating minimum compliance as evidence of usable participation. |
method.life.movement-fitness-physical-function.habit_and_environment_design |
habit and environment design | Use when work must be sequenced across dependencies, people, time, capacity, deadlines, contingencies, and review points. | Avoid false precision, schedules that ignore uncertainty or human capacity, and plans without owners, fallbacks, or stop conditions. |
Pack-specific invariants
The pack also inherits the core invariants in core/core_invariants.yaml.
| Invariant ID | Statement | Failure action |
|---|---|---|
invariant.life.movement-fitness-physical-function.01_concerning_symptoms_trigger_stop_and_assessment_rules |
Concerning symptoms trigger stop and assessment rules. | fail_or_repair |
invariant.life.movement-fitness-physical-function.02_progression_is_bounded_by_current_capacity_and_response |
Progression is bounded by current capacity and response. | fail_or_repair |
invariant.life.movement-fitness-physical-function.03_body_size_or_appearance_is_not_treated_as_a_measure_of_wor |
Body size or appearance is not treated as a measure of worth. | fail_or_repair |
Dependencies and relations
Operational general intelligences: None
Foundation concepts: general.planning-execution, general.temporal, general.practical-procedural, general.diagnostic, general.metacognitive
Life intelligences: life.health-navigation-self-care, life.sleep-recovery-energy, life.accessibility-independent-living
Source roles
| Source ID | Claim roles | Runtime resolution required |
|---|---|---|
who.physical_activity |
concept_definition, health_or_safety_boundary, population_guidance | True |
local.authority |
jurisdiction_rule, runtime_fact, service_or_community_context | True |
un.crpd.accessibility |
concept_definition | True |
Risk and authority boundary
Risk class: high
- Emergency symptoms during activity.
- New or worsening injury pain pregnancy concern chronic-condition concern or post-operative rehabilitation.
- Compulsive exercise or eating-disorder indicators.
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/movement-fitness-physical-function.yaml - Cases defined: 7
- Capabilities under test: 7