Answer shape
Verdicts and auditsalso: enumeration · quantity · protocol shape · forecast · comparison · feasibility shapeThe kind of thing an answer is: an enumeration, a quantity, a mechanism, a protocol, a forecast, a comparison or a feasibility.
The engine produces mechanisms and, after step 8, something close to protocols. It has no stage whose output is an enumeration or a quantity. Saying that in one word is the point of the list.