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---
name: specify-boundaries
description: "State applicability assumptions, scope, and known boundary conditions."
---
# specify-boundaries
## Purpose
Specify the population, system, temporal, and conceptual boundaries within which a claim or study is intended to hold.
## Input contract
```yaml
required: [claim_or_question, target_context]
optional: [known_limits, adjacent_domains, time_window]
constraints: [each boundary must be observable or operationally enforceable]
```
## Procedure
1. Identify included and excluded populations, systems, conditions, and times.
2. Separate conceptual boundaries from practical sampling limits.
3. Record boundary rationale and expected failure outside scope.
4. Emit a boundary schema for downstream comparison.
## Output contract
```yaml
produces: [boundary_specification, inclusion_edges, exclusion_edges, extrapolation_limits]
delta_fields: [decisions, assumption_updates, uncertainties, open_questions]
```
## Quality gates
- Boundaries do not depend on observed outcomes.
- Extrapolation limits are explicit.
## Failure and counterexamples
Do not define the boundary as whatever data happen to be available.
## Provenance map
- `resolved: specify-boundaries`
