# D&D Item-Occurrence Artifact

`dnd/item-occurrences` currently produces this source-grounded item and currency
occurrence list. It records discoveries and possession changes, not an
inventory, balance, or ledger.

## Identity and compatibility

| Property | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Artifact kind | `dnd/item-occurrence-list` |
| Schema ID | `notarius.dnd.item_occurrences` |
| Schema name | `notarius_dnd_item_occurrences_v1` |
| Schema version | `v1` |
| Media type | `application/json` |

`v1` accepts one strict JSON object with required `occurrences`; the array may
be empty. Each occurrence has required `item_id`, `name`, `kind`, and
`source_refs`, and occurrence and source-reference objects reject unknown
fields. `quantity`, `from`, and `to` appear only when their kind permits them.
An incompatible shape change requires a new schema version.

## Registry grounding

Both extraction and normalization require an `item_registry` reference bound to
an earlier normalized `dnd/item-registry` artifact. The registry is immutable
for an operation and contributes names-only grounding after the shared evidence
message. Notarius resolves the model's selected name into the unchanged exact
durable ID/name pair. It is never occurrence evidence.

Each occurrence must use one exact registry ID/name pair. An extraction response
with an unknown or ambiguous selected name is rejected as invalid model output;
the configured pipeline may retry it and never accepts a partial artifact.
Normalization and validation remain defense in depth for artifacts entering
through other boundaries: normalization canonicalizes a recognized name by ID,
preserves unknown values for the registry validator, and the registry validator
rejects unknown or mismatched pairs.

## Wire shape

Each source reference has exactly `source_id`, `start_unit_id`, and
`end_unit_id`. It identifies an inclusive range in the current transcript;
unit IDs are positive and the start may not follow the end.

```json
{
  "occurrences": [
    {
      "item_id": "item:sha256:…",
      "name": "Silver Pieces",
      "kind": "acquired",
      "quantity": 20,
      "to": "party",
      "source_refs": [
        {"source_id": "session-7", "start_unit_id": 2, "end_unit_id": 2}
      ]
    }
  ]
}
```

The five kinds remain `discovered`, `acquired`, `lost`, `consumed`, and
`transferred`. Holder, quantity, currency, ordering, and exact-duplicate rules
are unchanged: discovered has no holder; acquired requires `to`; lost and
consumed require `from`; transferred requires distinct non-`party` holders.
The only current downstream compatibility requirement is its registry handoff;
the normalized occurrence list is otherwise published for callers. See
[Configuration](../config.md#d-d-reference-slots) for the binding and
[JSON output](json-output.md) for publication.

See [item registry](dnd-item-registry-artifacts.md) for the grounding artifact
and [D&D module internals](../internal/dnd.md) for implementation details.
