{
  "handle": "Uncertain",
  "mechanism": "Epistemic Status Flag. Explicitly marks a Claim, {{variable}}, or Edge as 'Unknown'. Unlike 'Speculation' (which posits a direction), 'Uncertain' asserts a void of evidence. This prevents the system from treating absence of evidence as evidence of absence. Tagged nodes become high-priority targets for information retrieval. Tracked via {{uncertainty_map}}.",
  "gloss": "Epistemic status: genuinely don't know",
  "failure_modes": [
    "False Certainty: {{agent}} feels pressure to answer and fabricates a 'likely' answer instead of using this flag.",
    "Lazy Agnosticism: {{agent}} uses 'Uncertain' to avoid the work of reasoning (Tier 2 failure)."
  ],
  "invariants": [
    "Actionable Void: A node marked 'Uncertain' is a high-priority target for Information Retrieval.",
    "Specificity: Must target a specific scope (e.g., 'Uncertain about X', not just 'Uncertain')."
  ],
  "preconditions": [
    "Knowledge gap identified"
  ],
  "postconditions": [
    "Confidence score set to 0.0",
    "Target marked as requiring investigation"
  ],
  "_meta": {
    "tier": 2,
    "ring": 2,
    "supersedes": [
      "sema:Uncertain#mh:SHA-256:b1596d0176ec07983b13fe811026335849400cab1b8dc090e3aeec726d5e0a54",
      "sema:Uncertain#mh:SHA-256:d530cb44023db8c31fcf38084d2880df7e6a9d0c51f3785cb7a42d75bd504bf8",
      "sema:Uncertain#mh:SHA-256:a1a2b3d5eecedee633489c6494795af592bf5b995f591a0b7b7b7d29909603ba",
      "sema:Uncertain#mh:SHA-256:cada8020f2a01658580acca056a60a28e11a52f182565c25e7369fb82b17e1bc",
      "sema:Uncertain#mh:SHA-256:8e7410a4c3ad67d8ff7bfe5626fbf8dba2e5bb8df048a163b4ebb8e8af059760"
    ],
    "path": [
      "Mind",
      "Reasoning"
    ],
    "related": [
      "Doubtshelter#62d8"
    ]
  },
  "sema_id": "sema:Uncertain#mh:SHA-256:91b56e39fe4ccec7c6c80c865e8f679178293e85ec208eaceb9c814a9ca4bd53",
  "sema_ref": "Uncertain#91b5",
  "sema_stub": "91b5",
  "dependencies": {
    "references": {
      "agent": "sema:Agent#mh:SHA-256:e127459069739fffc96a71d54ef6e8c97ca53471d5349c16aa72a092a33756cd",
      "uncertainty_map": "sema:UncertaintyMap#mh:SHA-256:c412e49c71a44e86aba623c9487e9d4d589d863ff0c76391c45f8f7d26e08a9e",
      "variable": "sema:Variable#mh:SHA-256:5333c0009a269825753bf5470554844285c46920c32e3d46ed71403090224dc7"
    }
  },
  "sema_layer": "Mind",
  "sema_category": "Reasoning",
  "used_by": {
    "references": {
      "Doubtshelter": "sema:Doubtshelter#mh:SHA-256:62d8aa0f38d4f248e11950ce3a715fb659c9bd24cbe4b434e9776d85a5667b41"
    }
  }
}