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• is_a::[[Form Type]]
• has_status::[[Seed Stage]]
• in_domain::[[Deep Context Architecture]]
• in_precinct::[[Garden Precinct]]
• in_precinct::[[Vault Precinct]]

Domain Form

Core question: “What knowledge area does this cluster of forms belong to?”

A navigational and structural index for a field of knowledge — its scope, key nodes, open questions, and connections to other domains. Distinguished from a reference (which briefs on a domain) by being an active map: it tracks which principles, patterns, cases, and citations exist within the domain, what’s seed versus evergreen, and where the gaps are.

Domains cut across form types. A domain page is a gardener’s workbench: “I want to work on digital identity today” starts at the domain page.

Structural Contract

A domain form requires:

• Scope statement — What this domain covers and doesn’t cover.
• Key nodes index — Nodes organized by theme or form type. Tracks what exists and at what stage.
• Open questions — What’s unresolved or under-explored within this domain.
• Sources — Key references and citations grounding this domain.
• Relations — Typed links to related domains and to the nodes this domain indexes.

Domain pages serve as vocabulary indexes for newcomers — entry points explaining the shared language of a knowledge area (per L47).

Naming heuristic: knowledge area proper name, concise. One to three words that name the field. “Deep Context Architecture” not “Deep Context Architecture Domain.”

Typical Predicates

• is_a::[\[\[Domain Form\]\]](Domain%20Form.html)
• has_status::[\[\[Growing Stage\]\]](Growing%20Stage.html)
• indexes::[\[\[Garden Node\]\]↑](../NODES.html#:~:text=Garden%20Node) — nodes belonging to this domain
• relates_to::[\[\[Other Domain\]\]↑](../NODES.html#:~:text=Other%20Domain) — related knowledge areas

Exemplars

• [[Deep Context Architecture]] — the self-referential domain: 79 nodes defining the architecture that defines the garden
• [[Self-Sovereign Identity]] — first non-Deep Context Architecture domain, 4 nodes on the principal authority framework from agency law
• [[Synpraxis]] — how independent agents achieve outcomes together across varying degrees of integration

Category

Structural form — captures how things relate and what we understand.

Sources

Definition from [[Deep Context as an Architecture for Captured Reasoning]], lines 71-76.

Relations

• relates_to::[[Reference Form]]↑ — references brief on domains; domain pages actively index them
• relates_to::[[Model Form]] — models describe structural relationships within a domain
• relates_to::[[Inquiry Form]] — domain pages track open questions that inquiry nodes investigate
• relates_to::[[Opus Form]] — domains index opuses alongside other form types via in_domain:: predicates

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