# Self-Description and Discovery

> Require components, services, APIs, plugins, and runtime structures to declare metadata, capabilities, contracts, dependencies, configuration, and health so they can be discovered and validated.

Record: `algorithms:self-description-and-discovery`
Kind: algorithm
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/algorithms#algorithms-self-description-and-discovery
Closure: https://banes-lab.com/json/records/algorithms/self-description-and-discovery/closure

Listed in [Algorithm contracts](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/algorithms.md), after [Canonical Semantics](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/canonical-semantics.md) and before [Runtime Extensibility](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms/runtime-extensibility.md).

## Domain

- [Architecture relationships](https://banes-lab.com/records/algorithms-domain/arch-relationships.md)

## Tier

- [leaf](https://banes-lab.com/records/vocabulary/domain-tier-leaf.md)

## Math type

- [Set Theory](https://banes-lab.com/records/reasoning/math-type-set-theory.md)

## Force

- [Contract compatibility](https://banes-lab.com/records/force/contract-compatibility.md)
- [Runtime extensibility](https://banes-lab.com/records/force/runtime-extensibility.md)

## Linked from

- [The mathematics](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/reasoning/the-mathematics.md)
- [Domain tiers](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-vocabulary-domain-tier.md)
- [The forces](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-forces.md)