Proprietary design is a mechanism of competitive advantage that makes cooperation structurally irrational. OAD removes that mechanism — shared designs make cooperation the rational choice.
Participants submit production designs — blueprints, recipes, processes, service specifications — through a structured submission form that captures bill of materials, production steps, skill requirements, and estimated ecological footprint.
Community-governed standards for design quality, safety, interoperability, and ecological thresholds. Standards are themselves versioned and subject to CDS governance. Designs are validated against current standards before certification.
Each design is assessed for ecological impact using a checklist-based system in Phase 1, evolving toward full lifecycle assessment as data infrastructure matures. Outputs an ecological flag (CLEAR / MODERATE / SIGNIFICANT) attached to the CertifiedDesign object.
Where data permits, designs are modeled across their full production and use lifecycle — resource extraction, production, use, end-of-life. Outputs inform ecological assessment and ITC access cost calculation.
Design feasibility is assessed against current node capacity — available skills, equipment, materials — before production mandates are issued. Prevents CDS from authorizing production the node cannot actually execute.
Each design is decomposed into explicit labor tasks with skill requirements and time estimates. This output feeds directly into COS production planning and ITC labor forecasting.
Designs are checked for integration with existing production systems — material compatibility, skill overlap, equipment conflicts — before certification.
Certified designs are continuously analyzed for efficiency improvements — material reduction, skill substitution, process simplification — with improvement proposals routed back through CDS.
Designs passing all assessment and validation steps are certified and assigned a version identifier. Certified designs are the only designs COS is authorized to produce.
The federated repository of all certified designs. Available to all nodes. Designs contributed by any node are accessible by all. Version history, assessment records, and improvement proposals are all publicly visible.
Walk a solar pump design through all 10 OAD modules — from CAD commit to commons publication. Every assessment, every flag, every fork.
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