Research domain
What it producesalso: domain · DOM · domain finding · domain category · domain scan · reality mappingOne of eight to twelve research areas the engine scans for established science relevant to the goal.
Domains are meant to be mutually exclusive and each to contain about twenty-five actionable interventions. Each is tagged core mechanistic, adjacent non-obvious, or measurement technology. Step 4b fans out over the domains, one call each; when the proxy pool has less capacity than domains, a domain can be silently dropped, which is why the domain count of a run is checked.