# MONOCULTURE_TRIGGER_PROTOCOL

**Type:** Tool (testable decision table)
**Authority:** Frontiers (2026) on Global South neuroscience; Kirmayer on cultural competence; Asubiaro et al. (2023) *JASIST*; Adams et al. (2016) *Systematic Reviews* 5:164; arXiv:2510.04226 on LLM knowledge collapse.
**Invocation:** Step 2 of SKILL.md. Runs on every atomic sub-claim before corpus routing.

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## Four Triggers -- Each MUST Be Independently Testable

### T1 -- Domain-Sensitivity

**Fires when** the sub-claim's domain is in the closed set:
`{mental health, child-rearing, chronic-disease expression, agriculture, land management, ecology, governance, education}`

**Test:** Domain assignment from S5 equals one of the eight categories OR the sub-claim's primary noun phrase maps to one (via S5 discipline assignment table).

**Rationale:** These are the cultural-context-sensitive domains where WEIRD-sample calibration documented systematic miscalibration (Frontiers 2026; Kirmayer).

### T2 -- Geographic-Locus

**Fires when** the sub-claim references a specific region or country AND that region is under-indexed in Web of Science / Scopus per Asubiaro 2023.

**Test:** `geographic_locus` field from S5 is non-null AND the named region is in the non-Anglophone Global South set (Africa, Latin America, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Middle East excluding Israel, Francophone Caribbean). Default to "fires" if locus is specific-but-outside-Anglophone-core.

**Rationale:** Web of Science indexes 7.4% of African journals vs 45.6% in CrossRef. Absence is mistaken for absence.

### T3 -- Practitioner-Domain

**Fires when** the sub-claim matches a practitioner-embedded pattern.

**Test:** contains any practitioner verb: `{operate, deploy, install, commission, maintain, troubleshoot, treat clinically, administer, prescribe, manage land, run program, implement protocol, perform procedure}` OR a named practitioner role (nurse practitioner, extension agent, field conservator, regulator, inspector, technician).

**Rationale:** Peer-reviewed lags practitioner knowledge (Adams 2016). CADTH / Godin is the defensible surface.

### T4 -- Claim-Type Modifier

**Fires when** `claim_type` is in `{causal, predictive, normative, interpretive}`.

**Test:** Direct field read from S5 output.

**Rationale:** "What works" claims (causal, predictive) are most context-dependent; normative and interpretive claims are inherently culture-bound.

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## Decision Points

### M1 -- Two or More Triggers Fire

**ACTION:** Non-English academic routing is REQUIRED. No operator override permitted at runtime. Decision-point M1 is locked-in at Phase 2 architecture.

Engage SciELO OR AJOL (T2 / T1 Latin America / Africa rules via CORPUS_SURFACE_CATALOG). If T4 normative/interpretive AND T1 Indigenous-relevant, engage non-Western scholarship corpus (post-CARE gate).

### M2 -- One Trigger Fires

**ACTION:** Log explicit rationale to Ledger for whether non-English routing is engaged. Operator may override with documented rationale. `every-query` record must carry the M2 rationale text.

### M3 -- Zero Triggers Fire

**ACTION:** English-academic permitted. Ledger MUST record the zero-trigger evaluation as an explicit entry (not a silent default). Missing zero-trigger record = silent-default defect.

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## Ledger Payload

Every query record carries:
- `monoculture_triggers`: list of fired triggers `[T1, T2, T3, T4]` with per-trigger rationale.
- `routing_decision`: corpora dispatched + M1/M2/M3 rationale.

## Anti-Patterns

- T1-T4 evaluated without writing the result = silent default.
- Inflating one-firing to two-firing to avoid M1's no-override rule.
- Skipping T4 logging because S5 already typed the claim.
- Mapping T2 by country alone without the Anglophone-core exclusion.
