# MONOCULTURE_TRIGGERS -- Four-Dimension Trigger Schema

**Owner:** Claim-Typing Engine (S5). **Library:** Private RAM (S5 only; S1 Retrieval Router consumes the EMITTED flags via the decomposition artifact, not this file).

Rules for emitting per-claim monoculture-risk flags that route S1 to non-English, practitioner-grey, and non-Western knowledge-tradition corpora. Rooted in Phase 3 session S09 findings.

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## The Four Trigger Dimensions (evaluate per claim)

### D1 -- Domain-Sensitivity Flag

Fire when the claim concerns a domain where WEIRD-sample calibration is known to fail:
- Mental health; psychiatric diagnosis; therapeutic response.
- Child-rearing; parenting; developmental outcomes.
- Chronic-disease expression; symptom presentation; somatic vs psychological idioms.
- Agriculture; soil / crop / water management at place-specific scale.
- Land management; ecology; conservation practice.
- Governance; institutional design; legitimacy criteria.
- Education; pedagogy; learning outcome measurement.
- Family structure; kinship; intergenerational obligation.

Citations: Frontiers (2026) on Global South neuroscience sample limits; Kirmayer on cultural competence; Asubiaro (2023) on indexing gaps.

### D2 -- Geographic-Locus Flag

Fire when the claim references or generalizes to a non-WEIRD region (Global South, non-English-dominant, non-Western institutional context), OR when the claim is presented as universal but the underlying evidence base is Anglophone-only.

Citations: Asubiaro (2023) -- WoS indexes 7.4% of African journals vs CrossRef's 45.6%; Cespedes et al. (2025) on OpenAlex multilingual coverage.

### D3 -- Practitioner-Domain Flag

Fire when the claim concerns a domain where formalized peer-reviewed evidence lags practitioner knowledge:
- Skilled trades; hands-on craft; technique transmission.
- Clinical practice (below trial-covered ground).
- Operations; field conservation; emergency response.
- Teaching; coaching; facilitation.

Citations: Adams et al. (2016) *Systematic Reviews* 5:164; Godin et al. (2015); CADTH Grey Matters.

### D4 -- Claim-Type Flag (context-dependency)

Fire when the claim type carries inherent context-dependency:
- "What works" claims (causal OR predictive in applied contexts): outcomes depend on setting, population, implementation fidelity.
- Interpretive claims about cultural meaning.
- Normative claims about cultural practice or institutional legitimacy.

Fire=false for purely technical descriptive claims with universal referents (e.g., "what is the boiling point of water at STP").

## Emission Rule

For each claim, evaluate D1-D4. Emit per-claim:
```
monoculture_flags:
  domain_sensitivity: <bool>
  geographic_locus: <bool>
  practitioner_domain: <bool>
  claim_type_context_dependent: <bool>
  any_flag_positive: <bool>   # OR of the four
```

**ANY true flag triggers S1 to consult non-English (R9.3), practitioner-grey (R9.2), and where flag + claim-type indicates, non-Western knowledge-tradition corpora (R9.4) with CARE Principles enforced at retrieval (Carroll et al. 2020).**

## Hard Rules

1. NEVER silence a flag for throughput or perceived irrelevance. Silenced flags are the failure mode this engine exists to prevent.
2. When domain-locus evaluation returns NULL on a culture-named domain, treat as flag-positive (conservative bias) and log the gap for trigger-schema refinement.
3. Domain hints from the calling layer ("the user is American") are NOT sufficient to suppress D1 or D2. User location != claim scope.
4. D4 is evaluated per claim type, so stacked-intent decomposition ALWAYS precedes flag emission.

## Examples

- "What parenting styles produce the best child outcomes?" -> D1=TRUE (child-rearing), D4=TRUE (what-works). S1 routes non-Western-parenting corpora + practitioner-grey. Chao's work on Chinese-American authoritative-parenting reinterpretation becomes retrievable.
- "What is the prevalence of depression in adolescents?" -> D1=TRUE (mental health), D2=TRUE-if-universal-framing. Non-WEIRD epidemiology sources triggered.
- "What causes metal fatigue in aluminum alloys?" -> all D=false. No monoculture routing.
- "How do Maori health practitioners understand mental wellbeing?" -> D1=TRUE, D2=TRUE, D4=TRUE. CARE-gated retrieval mandatory (Carroll et al. 2020); extraction-avoidance protocol enforced.

## Downstream Contract

S1 Retrieval Router honors the flags by expanding its corpus set; it does NOT re-evaluate the flags. S1 reports back to S5 via the ledger if a flagged corpus is unavailable; S5 does NOT silently revise flags based on corpus availability.
