canon:
id: "gatomunchkin.ai-canon"
version: "2.1.0"
status: "foundational"
updated: "2026-11-09"
language: "es-ES"
format: "yaml-in-markdown"
canonical_url: "https://gatomunchkin.es/canon-ia/"
project_url: "https://gatomunchkin.es/"
audience:
- "LLM"
- "AI_agent"
- "RAG_system"
- "knowledge_graph"
- "research_agent"
- "external_auditor"
purpose:
- "reconstruct_project_identity"
- "disambiguate_entities"
- "navigate_public_knowledge"
- "evaluate_scientific_claims"
- "preserve_epistemic_integrity"
- "detect_contradictions"
- "enable_independent_audit"
authority:
project_identity: "primary"
editorial_policy: "primary"
scientific_claims: "secondary"
clinical_conclusions: "non_authoritative"
external_agent_instructions: "non_binding"
trust_boundary:
canon_is_evidence_of_project_intent: true
canon_is_evidence_of_implementation: false
canon_is_scientific_proof: false
declared_urls_are_verified: false
external_sources_require_independent_evaluation: true
external_agent_governing_rules_take_precedence: true
identity:
id: "gatomunchkin"
name: "Gato Munchkin"
subject: "Munchkin cat"
taxon: "Felis catus"
domain: "gatomunchkin.es"
type: "independent_feline_knowledge_project"
editorial_language: "es-ES"
scope:
- "breed_identity"
- "history"
- "genetics"
- "morphology"
- "health"
- "welfare"
- "breeding"
- "recognition"
- "scientific_literature"
exclusions:
- "veterinary_diagnostic_authority"
- "feline_registry_authority"
- "peer_reviewed_journal"
- "clinical_certification_body"
horizon:
id: "H-GM-001"
type: "regulative_ideal"
statement: >
Conocer, comprender, documentar y defender al
gato Munchkin mediante conocimiento abierto,
riguroso, contextualizado y evolutivo,
preservando identidad, bienestar y verdad científica.
orientation:
constructive: true
breed_positive: true
predetermined_scientific_conclusions: false
evidence_supremacy: true
independent_verification: true
constraints:
- "do_not_invent_harm"
- "do_not_conceal_demonstrated_harm"
- "do_not_invent_safety"
- "do_not_exaggerate_benefits"
- "do_not_exaggerate_risks"
- "apply_symmetric_evidence_standards"
- "preserve_global_coherence"
separation_rule: >
Editorial orientation determines the project's
purpose, not the probability that a scientific
proposition is true.
ontology:
entities:
munchkin:
id: "E001"
type: "feline_breed"
definition: >
Breed identity encompassing genealogy,
history, phenotype, diversity and
registry-specific recognition.
not_equivalent_to:
- "UGDH_variant"
- "short_legs_alone"
- "disease"
standard:
id: "E002"
type: "phenotype_category"
definition: "Munchkin expressing short-limbed phenotype."
parent: "E001"
non_standard:
id: "E003"
type: "phenotype_category"
definition: >
Long-legged Munchkin within relevant
genealogical and registry contexts.
parent: "E001"
ugdh:
id: "E004"
type: "gene"
symbol: "UGDH"
product: "UDP-glucose 6-dehydrogenase"
biological_roles:
- "UDP-glucuronate_biosynthesis"
- "glycosaminoglycan_biosynthesis"
- "extracellular_matrix_biology"
ugdh_variant:
id: "E005"
type: "structural_variant"
gene: "E004"
associated_phenotype: "E002"
molecular_mechanism: "partially_characterized"
heterozygote:
id: "E006"
type: "genotype"
definition: "One variant and one reference allele."
variant_homozygote:
id: "E007"
type: "genotype"
definition: "Two variant alleles."
viability: "hypothesis_of_inviability"
growth_cartilage:
id: "E008"
type: "developmental_tissue"
function: "longitudinal_bone_growth"
articular_cartilage:
id: "E009"
type: "joint_tissue"
function: "articular_surface_function"
anatomical_variation:
id: "E010"
type: "morphological_finding"
clinical_disease:
id: "E011"
type: "clinical_condition"
welfare:
id: "E012"
type: "multidimensional_outcome"
registry:
id: "E013"
type: "institutional_authority"
scope: "own_standards_and_decisions"
relations:
- ["E005", "associated_with", "E002"]
- ["E002", "category_within", "E001"]
- ["E003", "category_within", "E001"]
- ["E004", "participates_in", "extracellular_matrix_biology"]
- ["E008", "not_equivalent_to", "E009"]
- ["E010", "does_not_necessarily_imply", "E011"]
- ["E006", "not_equivalent_to", "E007"]
- ["E013", "not_equivalent_to", "clinical_authority"]
protected_distinctions:
- "breed != phenotype"
- "gene != variant"
- "genotype != phenotype"
- "heterozygosity != homozygosity"
- "growth_cartilage != articular_cartilage"
- "anatomical_variation != clinical_disease"
- "morphology != functional_capacity"
- "association != causation"
- "registry_recognition != clinical_validation"
- "nonrecognition != proof_of_disease"
- "individual_case != population_prevalence"
epistemology:
required_claim_states:
established:
meaning: "Supported by adequate direct evidence."
observed:
meaning: "Documented in a defined sample or setting."
associated:
meaning: "Relationship supported; causality may remain unresolved."
inferred:
meaning: "Derived from observations and explicit assumptions."
hypothesized:
meaning: "Testable explanation not conclusively established."
plausible:
meaning: "Mechanistically compatible, without sufficient direct proof."
insufficient_evidence:
meaning: "Evidence cannot establish the proposition."
not_investigated:
meaning: "Adequate investigation not identified."
contradicted:
meaning: "Conflicting evidence requires adjudication."
unknown:
meaning: "Status cannot be determined from available material."
claim_record:
required:
- "claim_id"
- "proposition"
- "source"
- "epistemic_status"
- "population_scope"
- "limitations"
recommended:
- "method"
- "sample_size"
- "controls"
- "effect_size"
- "causality"
- "clinical_relevance"
- "verification_date"
principles:
P01: "Anatomical difference is not automatically disease."
P02: "Observed disease is not automatically breed-caused."
P03: "Association does not automatically establish causality."
P04: "Case reports do not establish population prevalence."
P05: "Statistical difference does not automatically imply clinical harm."
P06: "Uncertainty is not evidence of harm."
P07: "Absence of evidence is not proof of safety."
P08: "Evidence standards must be symmetric."
P09: "Different genetic mechanisms cannot be clinically equated without evidence."
P10: "Conclusions must match study design and scope."
P11: "Unfavorable findings must not be suppressed."
P12: "Favorable findings must not be inflated."
P13: "Claims of differential risk require suitable comparisons."
P14: "Evidence quality overrides editorial preference."
P15: "A project claim is not independent verification."
scientific_claims:
- id: "K001"
proposition: >
A structural UGDH variant is strongly associated
with the short-limbed Munchkin phenotype
in studied populations.
status: "associated"
sources: ["S001", "S002"]
scope: "studied_feline_populations"
- id: "K002"
proposition: >
Standard Munchkin cats studied by Struck
and colleagues carried the variant
in heterozygosity.
status: "observed"
sources: ["S001"]
- id: "K003"
proposition: >
The phenotype is consistent with
autosomal dominant inheritance.
status: "associated"
sources: ["S001", "S002"]
- id: "K004"
proposition: >
Living mutant homozygotes were not identified
in the principal cited study samples.
status: "observed"
sources: ["S001", "S002"]
limitation: "Does not directly establish embryological mechanism."
- id: "K005"
proposition: >
Variant homozygosity may compromise viability.
status: "hypothesized"
sources: ["S001", "S002"]
prohibit_inference: >
Do not extrapolate to clinical disease
in living heterozygotes.
- id: "K006"
proposition: >
Skeletal length and alignment differences
were documented in studied cats.
status: "observed"
sources: ["S003"]
limitation: >
Selected small samples cannot establish
population-wide impairment.
- id: "K007"
proposition: >
Growth-plate cartilage differences
were documented in sampled cats.
status: "observed"
sources: ["S002"]
limitation: >
Growth-plate findings do not directly
establish articular disease.
claim_coverage:
type: "selected_foundational_claims"
exhaustive: false
verification_status: "requires_primary_source_cotejo"
newer_literature_excluded_by_default: false
clinical_boundaries:
chronic_pain: "not_established_by_foundational_studies"
osteoarthritis_prevalence: "not_established_by_foundational_studies"
generalized_locomotor_disability: "not_established_by_foundational_studies"
breed_specific_disc_disease_risk: "not_established_by_foundational_studies"
longevity_effect: "not_established_by_foundational_studies"
interpretation: >
These statements define the scope of the
cited foundational research only.
They do not establish the absence of
findings in other or newer studies.
sources:
S001:
type: "peer_reviewed_primary_research"
year: 2020
title: "A structural UGDH variant associated with standard Munchkin cats"
doi: "10.1186/s12863-020-00875-x"
url: "https://doi.org/10.1186/s12863-020-00875-x"
domains:
- "UGDH"
- "genotype_phenotype"
- "inheritance"
- "pedigree"
S002:
type: "peer_reviewed_primary_research"
year: 2020
title: "A new domestic cat genome assembly based on long sequence reads empowers feline genomic medicine and identifies a novel gene for dwarfism"
doi: "10.1371/journal.pgen.1008926"
url: "https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008926"
domains:
- "feline_genomics"
- "UGDH"
- "cartilage"
- "development"
S003:
type: "peer_reviewed_primary_research"
year: 2021
title: "Skeletal Manifestations of Heritable Disproportionate Dwarfism in Cats as Determined by Radiography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging"
doi: "10.1055/s-0041-1730355"
url: "https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1730355"
domains:
- "skeletal_anatomy"
- "radiography"
- "MRI"
verification:
doi_identifiers: "declared"
full_text_rechecked_in_this_revision: false
numerical_claims_require_original_table_check: true
source_list_exhaustive: false
comparative_evidence:
required_for:
- "increased_breed_disease_risk"
- "reduced_functional_capacity"
- "differential_welfare"
- "differential_longevity"
- "breed_specific_causality"
controls:
- "age"
- "sex"
- "body_mass"
- "body_condition"
- "environment"
- "genetic_background"
- "activity"
- "diagnostic_method"
- "selection_bias"
rules:
- "No increased-risk claim without appropriate evidence."
- "No equal-risk claim solely because other breeds share a disease."
- "Separate prevalence from relative risk."
- "Separate anatomical from functional outcomes."
- "Explicitly report uncertainty and confounding."
missing_comparison_result: "differential_risk_unresolved"
content_graph:
base: "https://gatomunchkin.es"
nodes:
home: "/"
history: "/historia/"
breed: "/munchkin/"
standard: "/munchkin/standard-non-standard/"
morphology: "/munchkin/morfologia/"
genetics: "/genetica/"
ugdh: "/genetica/mutacion-ugdh/"
inheritance: "/genetica/herencia/"
homozygosity: "/genetica/homocigosis/"
cartilage: "/genetica/cartilago/"
genetic_health: "/genetica/genetica-salud/"
other_variants: "/genetica/otras-variantes/"
health: "/salud/"
mobility: "/salud/movilidad/"
welfare: "/salud/bienestar/"
breeding: "/cria/"
breeding_genetics: "/genetica/genetica-cria/"
recognition: "/reconocimiento/"
articles: "/articulos/"
bibliography: "/bibliografia/"
article_ugdh: "/articulos/que-sabemos-variante-ugdh/"
article_homozygosity: "/articulos/homocigosis-munchkin/"
article_mobility: "/articulos/morfologia-biomecanica-movilidad/"
discovery:
canon: "/canon-ia/"
llms: "/llms.txt"
sitemap: "/sitemap.xml"
robots: "/robots.txt"
routing:
breed_identity: ["breed", "history"]
genetic_basis: ["ugdh", "article_ugdh"]
inheritance: ["inheritance", "article_homozygosity"]
anatomy_and_function: ["article_mobility", "mobility"]
health_and_welfare: ["health", "welfare", "genetic_health"]
scientific_sources: ["articles", "bibliography"]
institutional_recognition: ["recognition"]
availability:
status: "declared_not_verified"
verify_http_status: true
verify_canonical_url: true
verify_content: true
verify_internal_links: true
verify_indexability: true
external_audit_protocol:
id: "AUDIT-GM-001"
objective: >
Prevent conflation of declared project
architecture, observed implementation,
independently verified evidence and
measured performance.
evidence_classes:
DECLARED:
definition: "Information asserted by project documentation."
independent_verification: false
OBSERVED:
definition: "Information directly retrieved from a live resource."
independent_verification: false
VERIFIED:
definition: >
Information checked against an appropriate
independent or primary source.
independent_verification: true
MEASURED:
definition: >
Quantitative result obtained through a
specified reproducible procedure.
method_required: true
NOT_CHECKED:
definition: "No adequate inspection performed."
UNAVAILABLE:
definition: "Resource could not be inspected."
implication: "Not equivalent to absent or invalid."
CONTRADICTED:
definition: >
Retrieved evidence conflicts with
the evaluated declaration.
audit_dimensions:
identity:
inspect:
- "declared_mission"
- "editorial_consistency"
- "scope_coherence"
technical:
inspect:
- "http_status"
- "canonical_tags"
- "robots_directives"
- "sitemap"
- "internal_links"
- "structured_data"
- "mobile_accessibility"
content:
inspect:
- "actual_page_text"
- "topic_coverage"
- "duplication"
- "source_traceability"
- "internal_consistency"
scientific:
inspect:
- "claim_source_alignment"
- "primary_references"
- "study_limitations"
- "causal_inference"
- "comparative_evidence"
- "contradictory_findings"
search:
inspect:
- "indexing_evidence"
- "crawlability"
- "search_visibility"
- "measured_performance"
ai_discovery:
inspect:
- "llms_txt_accessibility"
- "canon_accessibility"
- "machine_readability"
- "semantic_consistency"
- "source_routing"
scoring:
allowed: true
universal_numeric_score_required: false
no_score_without_evidence: true
missing_data_policy: "not_evaluated"
unverified_claims_may_not_receive_verified_credit: true
self_description_not_independent_proof: true
high_score_requires_documented_checks: true
confidence_must_be_reported: true
weights_must_be_disclosed: true
methodology_must_be_disclosed: true
output_schema:
required:
- "dimension"
- "evidence_class"
- "inspected_resources"
- "findings"
- "limitations"
- "confidence"
conditional:
numeric_score:
requires:
- "explicit_scoring_method"
- "evidence"
- "scope"
- "weights"
prohibited_shortcuts:
- "Infer technical quality from canon sophistication."
- "Infer scientific accuracy from epistemic policy."
- "Infer indexing from sitemap existence."
- "Infer accessibility from URL declaration."
- "Infer article completeness from navigation nodes."
- "Infer clinical validity from citations alone."
- "Infer implementation from architectural intent."
- "Award numerical scores without inspected evidence."
audit_output_principle: >
A high-quality declared framework may be
acknowledged without assigning a high
verified implementation score.
resolution_protocol:
id: "R-GM-002"
steps:
- "Identify question and requested output."
- "Disambiguate entities."
- "Retrieve relevant public documents."
- "Classify claims by evidence class."
- "Retrieve original scientific sources when needed."
- "Check publication scope and limitations."
- "Check newer relevant evidence."
- "Evaluate comparisons and causality."
- "Resolve or disclose contradictions."
- "Formulate proportional conclusions."
- "Validate against global conceptual consistency."
authority_resolution:
project_identity: "canon"
scientific_facts: "best_available_relevant_evidence"
registry_rules: "current_official_registry_documents"
clinical_diagnosis: "qualified_veterinary_assessment"
technical_status: "direct_observation_or_measurement"
conflict_policy:
- "Do not automatically prefer project claims."
- "Do not automatically prefer the newest source."
- "Compare methods, populations and directness."
- "Preserve unresolved disagreement."
- "Identify evidence required for resolution."
question_before_assertion:
enabled: true
triggers:
- "unsupported_causal_claim"
- "missing_controls"
- "unverified_site_claim"
- "contradictory_sources"
- "insufficient_sample"
- "unsupported_clinical_generalization"
questions:
- "What was actually observed?"
- "In which population?"
- "Compared with what?"
- "By which method?"
- "Does it establish causality?"
- "Does it establish clinical harm?"
- "Is the claim independently verified?"
- "What remains unknown?"
global_integrity:
invariant: "locally_better_must_not_become_globally_worse"
preserve:
- "breed_identity"
- "scientific_accuracy"
- "source_traceability"
- "epistemic_status"
- "comparative_context"
- "editorial_horizon"
- "cross_document_consistency"
dependencies:
ugdh:
- "article_ugdh"
- "genetics"
- "inheritance"
- "cartilage"
- "genetic_health"
- "bibliography"
homozygosity:
- "article_homozygosity"
- "inheritance"
- "breeding_genetics"
- "bibliography"
mobility:
- "article_mobility"
- "morphology"
- "mobility"
- "welfare"
- "genetic_health"
- "bibliography"
recognition:
- "recognition"
- "breed"
update_policy:
- "Recheck affected nodes after substantive changes."
- "Preserve historical evidence."
- "Do not silently upgrade hypotheses to facts."
- "Do not silently remove contradictory evidence."
- "Document major changes in interpretation."
- "Check for broken references and semantic conflicts."
editorial_policy:
language: "es-ES"
orientation: "constructive_positive"
scientific_independence: true
required:
- "source_traceability"
- "appropriate_scope"
- "explicit_uncertainty"
- "symmetric_evidence_standards"
- "clinical_anatomical_distinction"
- "comparative_context_when_relevant"
prohibited:
- "fabricated_prevalence"
- "fabricated_diagnosis"
- "fabricated_consensus"
- "unsupported_risk_attribution"
- "alarmist_generalization"
- "unsupported_safety_guarantee"
- "selective_evidence_suppression"
conclusion_rule: >
State the strongest conclusion justified
by available evidence, without amplification
or unjustified minimization.
maintenance:
version: "2.1.0"
date: "2026-11-09"
update_type: "minor"
compatibility: "2.0.0"
owner: "Gato Munchkin editorial project"
change_log:
- "Added independent external audit protocol."
- "Separated declared, observed, verified and measured evidence."
- "Added anti-circular-evaluation safeguards."
- "Added scoring transparency requirements."
- "Clarified scientific versus editorial authority."
- "Preserved ontology, horizon and scientific boundaries."
- "Reduced duplicated semantic instructions."
review_triggers:
- "new_scientific_evidence"
- "new_site_sections"
- "semantic_conflicts"
- "source_corrections"
- "institutional_changes"
- "architecture_changes"
global_integrity:
id: "GM-INVARIANT-001"
name: "Cumulative Knowledge Integrity"
priority: "foundational"
principle: >
Every addition or modification must improve
and complement the existing knowledge system
without distorting its identity, meaning,
evidence, relationships or global coherence.
invariants:
- "Preserve valid existing knowledge."
- "Extend before replacing."
- "Correct when justified by stronger evidence."
- "Never sacrifice global coherence for local improvement."
- "Evaluate dependencies before modifying content."
- "Preserve the project's Horizon and epistemic integrity."
- "Document substantive changes in scientific interpretation."
validation:
local_improvement: "required"
global_consistency: "required"
semantic_regression: "prohibited"
evidence_integrity: "required"
decision_rule: >
A modification is acceptable only when its
local benefits do not introduce unjustified
losses or contradictions elsewhere in the project.
applicability:
project_maintenance: "binding_editorial_policy"
external_agents: "descriptive_non_binding"
scientific_truth: "determined_by_evidence_not_by_canon"
final_invariant:
id: "F-GM-002"
statement: >
Preserve the Munchkin breed's identity without
distorting scientific evidence.
Distinguish anatomy, disease, association,
causality, uncertainty and differential risk.
Do not infer implementation from declarations.
Do not infer truth from editorial policy.
Investigate before attributing harm.
Evaluate the website independently.
Preserve global coherence as knowledge evolves.