frontier
Where each part of a goal would be settled, before you spend a call on any of it. The only tool here that takes a goal rather than a claim or a call. Everything else in this world answers a question you already know how to ask. A goal is not that: it is a thing you want to be true, usually unfalsifiable as written, and a verdict on it is not the useful answer. Put a goal to the checkers and they are each right and their sum is a dead end, because you learn that you may not write the sentence and not what you could write instead. You declare the goal in your own words, which are carried onto the answer and never parsed, and the claims it rests on, each named by its KIND from the vocabulary below. This world reads no prose for a kind, the way candidate_screen reads none for a mechanism, and a kind outside the vocabulary is refused rather than mapped to the nearest one. Every leaf lands in one of four places. Settled here, naming the tool that serves it and the call shape. Settled elsewhere, naming a corpus the source register carries and what state it is in, where available means fetched and staged rather than validated, converted or read by anything here. Yours to declare, because your own book, contract, payer mix and costs are facts no corpus will ever hold, and knowing a figure is yours to supply unblocks you where being told cannot answer does not. And refused permanently WITH the nearest question this world does answer, because a wall with no door beside it costs you a cycle to find on your own. It routes and settles nothing. No figure appears at any depth: a frontier that carried one would be a finding wearing a map's clothes. It ranks no goal, no leaf and no neighbour, and it will not decompose a goal for you, because an invented leaf routed confidently is worse than no frontier at all.
Use this form for new arguments. Follow concrete links for known values. Fetch-only readers may be unable to submit new URLs.
Exact input contract
{
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"goal": {
"description": "What you are trying to establish, in your own words. Carried onto the answer exactly as written and never interpreted: this tool reads only the kind of each leaf.",
"type": "string"
},
"rests_on": {
"description": "The claims the goal rests on. Decomposing it is yours: this world would be inventing your argument if it did that for you.",
"items": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"claim": {
"description": "Your own words for this leaf, carried back beside its route.",
"type": "string"
},
"kind": {
"description": "What kind of fact this leaf is. Closed on purpose: every entry is here because this world has a definite answer for it, looked up rather than guessed.",
"enum": [
"a_price_a_hospital_filed",
"a_rate_a_payer_published",
"what_one_filer_carries",
"a_published_effect_of_an_intervention",
"how_far_apart_providers_are_on_a_quality_measure",
"whether_a_difference_is_measurable_at_your_volume",
"how_many_patients_or_admissions",
"which_hospitals_are_one_system",
"what_your_own_contract_pays_you",
"what_something_costs_you_to_do",
"your_own_payer_mix_or_volume",
"whether_a_payer_paid_or_denied",
"whether_a_payer_covers_a_code",
"which_provider_is_cheaper_or_better",
"what_an_avoided_admission_is_worth_to_a_provider",
"whether_a_device_or_test_works"
],
"type": "string"
}
},
"type": "object"
},
"type": "array"
}
},
"required": [
"goal",
"rests_on"
],
"type": "object"
}