{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://obligationfirst.org/v1/schema/authority.schema.json",
  "title": "Authority",
  "description": "An entity with interpretive or regulatory power over Instruments and Proceedings. Bound to gist:Organization (or subtype). Every Authority's right to act traces to an Instrument via authority_basis.",
  "type": "object",
  "required": ["@type", "@id", "organization", "authority_basis", "jurisdiction"],
  "properties": {
    "@context": { "type": ["string", "array", "object"] },
    "@id": { "type": "string", "format": "uri" },
    "@type": { "const": "of:Authority" },
    "organization": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": ["@type", "name"],
      "properties": {
        "@type": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "A gist:Organization or subtype IRI (e.g., gist:GovernmentOrganization, gist:Court)",
          "examples": [
            "gist:Organization",
            "gist:GovernmentOrganization",
            "gist:Court"
          ]
        },
        "name": { "type": "string", "minLength": 1 }
      }
    },
    "authority_basis": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": ["kind", "instrument_ref"],
      "properties": {
        "kind": {
          "type": "string",
          "enum": ["statutory", "regulatory", "contractual", "corporate", "judicial"],
          "description": "Closed vocabulary describing why the Authority has authority. Statutory = granted by enacted law. Regulatory = delegated by an administrative process. Contractual = granted by agreement. Corporate = granted by bylaws or charter. Judicial = inherent to a court or tribunal."
        },
        "instrument_ref": {
          "type": "string",
          "format": "uri",
          "description": "IRI of the Instrument that grants this Authority's right to act."
        }
      }
    },
    "jurisdiction": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": ["@type", "ref"],
      "properties": {
        "@type": { "const": "gist:Jurisdiction" },
        "ref": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Jurisdiction code (ISO 3166 country, ISO subdivision, or ELI member-state code).",
          "examples": ["us-co", "ca-bc", "eu", "us"]
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": true
}