Draft consultation shape

TLA-Care — Establishment & maintenance obligations

Draft orbit: structured establishment and maintenance obligation packs beside the spine.

Schema id: la.archive.care-obligations.v1 · Spine: TLA-185

Purpose

Define a portable care-obligation pack so handovers can list establishment windows, maintenance regimes, inspection cadence, and replacement assumptions with TLA-185 field links.

This orbit packages maintainer-facing duties encoded in the project archive. Contract law and jurisdictional compliance stay outside the open shape.

Out of scope

Not this orbit	Where it lives
Legal warranty text	Contract / jurisdiction-specific counsel
CMMS work-order execution	Operations systems
Archive Seal	Commercial attestation
Second field dictionary	Spine — TLA-185

Enumerations (draft — freeze later)

Field	Allowed values (draft)
`obligations[].kind`	`establishment \| maintenance \| inspection \| replacement \| other`
`obligations[].cadence`	`once \| weekly \| monthly \| seasonal \| annual \| event_driven \| other`

Normative intent (when elevated from Draft)

When elevated from draft: care obligations referenced in sustainability or performance claims should be linkable from this pack.
Obligation records carry human-readable descriptions plus optional period bounds.
Missing obligations are worse than explicit unknown cadence on critical establishment windows.

Foundation vs Archive

Foundation	Archive
Publishes the open obligation shape for teaching and maintenance handover language.	May implement richer scheduling tools and paid maintenance products.
Does not enforce contractual performance.	Enforcement stays in project agreements and operations.

Golden example (illustrative)

Minimal worked example for consultation. Not a production product API. Download JSON · Required-keys schema (Draft). Repo smoke: npm run validate:orbits.

{
  "schema_id": "la.archive.care-obligations.v1",
  "schema_version": 1,
  "pack_id": "care-ex-001",
  "created_at": "2026-07-26T00:00:00.000Z",
  "obligations": [
    {
      "obligation_id": "obl-est-001",
      "kind": "establishment",
      "description": "Deep watering twice weekly for first two summers",
      "cadence": "weekly",
      "period_start": "2026-06-01",
      "period_end": "2028-02-28"
    },
    {
      "obligation_id": "obl-maint-001",
      "kind": "maintenance",
      "description": "Annual formative prune of street trees",
      "cadence": "annual"
    }
  ],
  "jurisdiction_hint": null,
  "tla185_refs": {
    "record_id": null,
    "field_paths": ["maintenance.regime"]
  }
}