# Discipline Skeleton -- Realist Review

**Library:** Public RAM. **Authored by:** Epistemic Output Layer (S4). **Consumed by:** S4 at Phase D overlay.

Use when the invoked Librarian discipline is `realist-review`. Realist reviews produce Context-Mechanism-Outcome (CMO) configurations per Pawson & Tilley. Attach the three-axis block per CMO configuration.

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## Native Skeleton (preserve)

1. **Review Question** -- "What works, for whom, in what circumstances, and why?" Per Pawson-Tilley.
2. **Initial Program Theory (IPT)** -- theory of how the intervention is meant to generate outcomes.
3. **Search and Selection** -- purposive; aim is theoretical saturation, not exhaustive coverage.
4. **CMO Configurations** -- each configuration: Context (C) description + Mechanism (M) + Outcome (O). Often multiple configurations per intervention.
5. **Middle-Range Theory Refinement** -- how CMOs cohere into a refined theory.
6. **Demi-Regularities** -- recurring C-M-O patterns across cases.
7. **Program-Theory Synthesis** -- revised program theory.
8. **Implications for Context-Specific Implementation.**

## Overlay Hooks

- Each **CMO configuration** is a claim slot. Attach the three-axis block per configuration.
- Typical claim type: causal (mechanism-context coupling). Transportability slot: `mechanism_context_coupling` -- direct CMO-derived + Pearl-Bareinboim where structure is articulable + PIET-T full 44.
- This is the discipline where the R3.1 CMO-as-transportability-signal mapping is MOST direct. Transportability rationale should cite the C -> C' delta by name.
- Surprise Register and Search Ledger render as top-level sections after Implications.
- Methodology trace: realist-review tag, RAMESES reporting standards, IPT version.

## Native elements that MUST survive overlay
- The IPT and its refinement trace.
- Per-configuration C, M, O statements.
- Demi-regularities section.

Realist reviews are the paradigm case for CMO transportability signaling. DO NOT collapse mechanism-context coupling into a single "transportability: moderate" label; render the C -> C' delta and the M stability judgment as named sub-scores.
