Object types

Object types are the canonical containers for operational entities in the OpenFoundry ontology.

What this subtree covers

• how object types represent real-world entities
• how they connect to interfaces, shared properties, and links
• how they become queryable and application-facing records

Repository signals

The current implementation signals are strongest in:

• services/ontology-service/src/handlers/types.rs
• services/ontology-service/src/models/object_type.rs
• proto/ontology/object.proto

OpenFoundry direction

Object types should become the stable semantic contract used by:

• workflow inputs and outputs
• reports and dashboards
• geospatial and graph layers
• AI retrieval and semantic search

Section map

• Overview and lifecycle
• Modeling patterns
• Create an object type
• Edit object types
• Object type metadata reference
• Object type anti-patterns
• End-to-end object type flow