diff --git a/platform/containment/README.md b/platform/containment/README.md
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+Implements support for rules which determine which objects are allowed
+to contain other objects, typically by type.
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diff --git a/platform/containment/src/CapabilityTable.js b/platform/containment/src/CapabilityTable.js
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+/*global define*/
+
+
+define(
+    [],
+    function () {
+        "use strict";
+
+        /**
+         * Build a table indicating which types are expected to expose
+         * which capabilities.
+         */
+        function CapabilityTable(typeService, capabilityService) {
+            var table = {};
+
+            // Build an initial model for a type
+            function buildModel(type) {
+                var model = Object.create(type.getInitialModel() || {});
+                model.type = type.getKey();
+                return model;
+            }
+
+            // Get capabilities expected for this type
+            function getCapabilities(type) {
+                return capabilityService.getCapabilities(buildModel(type));
+            }
+
+            // Populate the lookup table for this type's capabilities
+            function addToTable(type) {
+                var typeKey = type.getKey();
+                Object.keys(getCapabilities(type)).forEach(function (key) {
+                    table[key] = table[key] || {};
+                    table[key][typeKey] = true;
+                });
+            }
+
+            // Build the table
+            (typeService.listTypes() || []).forEach(addToTable);
+
+            return {
+                /**
+                 * Check if a type is expected to expose a specific
+                 * capability.
+                 */
+                hasCapability: function (typeKey, capabilityKey) {
+                    return (table[capabilityKey] || {})[typeKey];
+                }
+            };
+        }
+
+        return CapabilityTable;
+    }
+);
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diff --git a/platform/containment/src/CompositionPolicy.js b/platform/containment/src/CompositionPolicy.js
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+/*global define*/
+
+define(
+    ['./ContainmentTable'],
+    function (ContainmentTable) {
+        "use strict";
+
+        /**
+         * Defines composition policy as driven by type metadata.
+         */
+        function CompositionPolicy(typeService, capabilityService) {
+            // We're really just wrapping the containment table and rephrasing
+            // it as a policy decision.
+            var table = new ContainmentTable(typeService, capabilityService);
+
+            return {
+                /**
+                 * Is the type identified by the candidate allowed to
+                 * contain the type described by the context?
+                 */
+                allow: function (candidate, context) {
+                    return table.canContain(candidate, context);
+                }
+            };
+        }
+
+        return CompositionPolicy;
+    }
+);
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diff --git a/platform/containment/src/ContainmentTable.js b/platform/containment/src/ContainmentTable.js
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+/*global define*/
+
+define(
+    ['./CapabilityTable'],
+    function (CapabilityTable) {
+        "use strict";
+
+        // Symbolic value for the type table for cases when any type
+        // is allowed to be contained.
+        var ANY = true;
+
+        /**
+         * Supports composition policy by maintaining a table of
+         * domain object types, to determine if they can contain
+         * other domain object types. This is determined at application
+         * start time (plug-in support means this cannot be determined
+         * prior to that, but we don't want to redo these calculations
+         * every time policy is checked.)
+         */
+        function ContainmentTable(typeService, capabilityService) {
+            var types = typeService.listTypes(),
+                capabilityTable = new CapabilityTable(typeService, capabilityService),
+                table = {};
+
+            // Check if one type can contain another
+            function canContain(containerType, containedType) {
+            }
+
+            // Add types which have all these capabilities to the set
+            // of allowed types
+            function addToSetByCapability(set, has) {
+                has = Array.isArray(has) ? has : [has];
+                types.forEach(function (type) {
+                    var typeKey = type.getKey();
+                    set[typeKey] = has.map(function (capabilityKey) {
+                        return capabilityTable.hasCapability(typeKey, capabilityKey);
+                    }).reduce(function (a, b) {
+                        return a && b;
+                    }, true);
+                });
+            }
+
+            // Add this type (or type description) to the set of allowed types
+            function addToSet(set, type) {
+                // Is this a simple case of an explicit type identifier?
+                if (typeof type === 'string') {
+                    // If so, add it to the set of allowed types
+                    set[type] = true;
+                } else {
+                    // Otherwise, populate that set based on capabilities
+                    addToSetByCapability(set, (type || {}).has || []);
+                }
+            }
+
+            // Add to the lookup table for this type
+            function addToTable(type) {
+                var key = type.getKey(),
+                    definition = type.getDefinition() || {},
+                    contains = definition.contains;
+
+                // Check for defined containment restrictions
+                if (contains === undefined) {
+                    // If not, accept anything
+                    table[key] = ANY;
+                } else {
+                    // Start with an empty set...
+                    table[key] = {};
+                    // ...cast accepted types to array if necessary...
+                    contains = Array.isArray(contains) ? contains : [contains];
+                    // ...and add all containment rules to that set
+                    contains.forEach(function (c) {
+                        addToSet(table[key], c);
+                    });
+                }
+            }
+
+            // Build the table
+            types.forEach(addToTable);
+
+            return {
+                /**
+                 * Check if domain objects of one type can contain domain
+                 * objects of another type.
+                 * @returns {boolean} true if allowable
+                 */
+                canContain: function (containerType, containedType) {
+                    var set = table[containerType.getKey()] || {};
+                    // Recognize either the symbolic value for "can contain
+                    // anything", or lookup the specific type from the set.
+                    return (set === ANY) || set[containedType.getKey()];
+                }
+            };
+
+        }
+
+        return ContainmentTable;
+    }
+);
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