Domains

Controlled vocabulary for contextual domains where canonical workflow patterns commonly appear.

Source fields

• domain

Usage notes

• Domains provide context for a pattern and should not replace pattern-first classification.
• Reuse existing anchor domains before proposing narrower sector-specific labels.
• A pattern may reference multiple domains when the workflow structure truly recurs across them.

Terms

Engineering

• Stable id: engineering
• Summary: Software and technical delivery work involving systems, code, infrastructure, and incident response.
• Definition: Use for workflows centered on building, operating, debugging, validating, or changing technical systems and development processes.
• Selection guidance: Choose this when the workflow primarily serves product engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure, reliability, or developer operations.
• Related ids: operations, support
• Used by patterns:
• Exception-aware task execution
• Human-directed task orchestration
• Staged change execution with rollback holds
• Workflow hand-off and completion
• Approval-gated briefing release
• Approval packet generation
• Crisis briefing evidence synthesis
• Research synthesis with citation verification
• Approval-centered collaboration
• Approval-gated collaborative artifact release
• Critical protected artifact collaboration
• Claimed state verification
• Evidence-gated verification for release
• Incident root cause analysis
• Critical signal corroboration triage
• Explainable watchlist maintenance
• Adaptive threshold calibration
• Approval-gated optimization-state release
• Critical protected-priority adaptation
• Authoritative change coordination refresh
• Critical command-window resequencing
• Schedule adjustment and replanning
• Approval-gated recommendation release
• Control requirement attestation recommendation
• Critical escalation authority recommendation
• Readiness gate disposition recommendation
• Approval-gated transformation release
• Change-triggered representation refresh
• Normalization and enrichment

Finance

• Stable id: finance
• Summary: Financial operations involving transactions, reporting, controls, and resource allocation.
• Definition: Use for workflows tied to accounting, treasury, forecasting, expense control, month-end close, or financial review and reconciliation.
• Selection guidance: Choose this when monetary records, financial decisions, or fiscal controls are central to the workflow.
• Related ids: compliance, operations
• Used by patterns:
• Browser-based form completion with approval gates
• Staged change execution with rollback holds
• Approval-gated briefing release
• Approval packet generation
• Approval-centered collaboration
• Approval-gated collaborative artifact release
• Critical protected artifact collaboration
• Authoritative record reconciliation
• Critical authoritative state restoration
• Evidence-gated verification for release
• Approval-gated triage dispatch
• Critical signal corroboration triage
• Risk alert triage
• Approval-gated optimization-state release
• Critical protected-priority adaptation
• Governed optimization bundle retuning
• Authoritative change coordination refresh
• Contingency plan activation gate
• Critical command-window resequencing
• Approval-gated recommendation release
• Control requirement attestation recommendation
• Critical escalation authority recommendation
• Deal desk recommendation support
• Delegated authority option ranking
• Readiness gate disposition recommendation
• Approval-gated transformation release
• Change-triggered representation refresh
• Critical channel-safe state packaging
• Document to structured data handoff

Compliance

• Stable id: compliance
• Summary: Policy, regulatory, and control-assurance work that must satisfy explicit obligations.
• Definition: Use for workflows that interpret requirements, gather evidence, verify adherence, or escalate exceptions against legal, policy, or audit standards.
• Selection guidance: Choose this when external or internal obligations define success criteria more strongly than general operational efficiency.
• Related ids: finance, hr
• Used by patterns:
• Browser-based form completion with approval gates
• Human-directed task orchestration
• Workflow hand-off and completion
• Approval packet generation
• Research synthesis with citation verification
• Analyst copilot loop
• Approval-centered collaboration
• Approval-gated collaborative artifact release
• Critical protected artifact collaboration
• Shared workbench orchestration
• Authoritative record reconciliation
• Critical authoritative state restoration
• Approval-gated triage dispatch
• Critical signal corroboration triage
• Risk alert triage
• Adaptive threshold calibration
• Approval-gated optimization-state release
• Queue prioritization optimization
• Authoritative change coordination refresh
• Contingency plan activation gate
• Schedule adjustment and replanning
• Approval-gated recommendation release
• Control requirement attestation recommendation
• Critical escalation authority recommendation
• Deal desk recommendation support
• Policy-constrained escalation routing
• Approval-gated transformation release
• Batch content transformation
• Change-triggered representation refresh
• Document to structured data handoff

Operations

• Stable id: operations
• Summary: Day-to-day business process execution, coordination, and service delivery.
• Definition: Use for workflows that keep business processes running, allocate work, manage throughput, and resolve execution issues across functions.
• Selection guidance: Choose this when the workflow is primarily about ongoing operational flow rather than specialized technical or regulatory work.
• Related ids: engineering, support
• Used by patterns:
• Exception-aware task execution
• Human-directed task orchestration
• Staged change execution with rollback holds
• Approval-gated briefing release
• Change-triggered context briefing
• Crisis briefing evidence synthesis
• Approval-centered collaboration
• Approval-gated collaborative artifact release
• Shared workbench orchestration
• Claimed state verification
• Critical authoritative state restoration
• Evidence-gated verification for release
• Incident root cause analysis
• Approval-gated triage dispatch
• Critical signal corroboration triage
• Risk alert triage
• Adaptive review sampling-rate tuning
• Adaptive threshold calibration
• Approval-gated optimization-state release
• Critical protected-priority adaptation
• Queue prioritization optimization
• Calendar conflict coordination
• Contingency plan activation gate
• Critical command-window resequencing
• Approval-gated recommendation release
• Control requirement attestation recommendation
• Deal desk recommendation support
• Delegated authority option ranking
• Policy-constrained escalation routing
• Approval-gated transformation release
• Critical channel-safe state packaging
• Document to structured data handoff
• Normalization and enrichment

Research

• Stable id: research
• Summary: Knowledge-building work focused on exploration, evidence gathering, and synthesis.
• Definition: Use for workflows that investigate questions, gather sources, compare findings, and produce grounded summaries, hypotheses, or recommendations.
• Selection guidance: Choose this when discovery and synthesis are primary deliverables, including analyst research and evidence-grounded briefing.
• Related ids: engineering, compliance
• Used by patterns:
• Workflow hand-off and completion
• Research synthesis with citation verification
• Analyst copilot loop
• Approval-gated collaborative artifact release
• Shared workbench orchestration
• Claimed state verification
• Evidence-gated verification for release
• Anomaly detection review
• Approval-gated triage dispatch
• Explainable watchlist maintenance
• Adaptive review sampling-rate tuning
• Approval-gated optimization-state release
• Governed optimization bundle retuning
• Schedule adjustment and replanning
• Approval-gated recommendation release
• Readiness gate disposition recommendation
• Approval-gated transformation release
• Batch content transformation
• Change-triggered representation refresh
• Normalization and enrichment

Support

• Stable id: support
• Summary: Service and case-handling work that responds to user, customer, or internal help requests.
• Definition: Use for workflows involving intake, triage, diagnosis, resolution guidance, escalation, and follow-up for issues or requests.
• Selection guidance: Choose this when the workflow mainly manages incoming cases, incidents, or service interactions.
• Related ids: operations, engineering
• Used by patterns:
• Exception-aware task execution
• Workflow hand-off and completion
• Change-triggered context briefing
• Crisis briefing evidence synthesis
• Analyst copilot loop
• Approval-centered collaboration
• Approval-gated collaborative artifact release
• Shared workbench orchestration
• Claimed state verification
• Incident root cause analysis
• Anomaly detection review
• Explainable watchlist maintenance
• Adaptive review sampling-rate tuning
• Approval-gated optimization-state release
• Queue prioritization optimization
• Calendar conflict coordination
• Approval-gated recommendation release
• Delegated authority option ranking
• Policy-constrained escalation routing
• Approval-gated transformation release
• Batch content transformation
• Change-triggered representation refresh
• Critical channel-safe state packaging

HR

• Stable id: hr
• Summary: People operations work involving staffing, employee support, policy handling, and workforce coordination.
• Definition: Use for workflows tied to hiring, onboarding, employee requests, policy review, performance processes, or workforce administration.
• Selection guidance: Choose this when the workflow primarily concerns employees, candidates, managers, or people-policy operations.
• Related ids: compliance, operations
• Used by patterns:
• Browser-based form completion with approval gates
• Workflow hand-off and completion
• Approval-gated briefing release
• Change-triggered context briefing
• Approval-centered collaboration
• Approval-gated collaborative artifact release
• Shared workbench orchestration
• Authoritative record reconciliation
• Claimed state verification
• Critical authoritative state restoration
• Evidence-gated verification for release
• Anomaly detection review
• Approval-gated triage dispatch
• Approval-gated optimization-state release
• Governed optimization bundle retuning
• Calendar conflict coordination
• Approval-gated recommendation release
• Policy-constrained escalation routing
• Approval-gated transformation release
• Batch content transformation
• Change-triggered representation refresh

Canonical source

• data/vocabularies/domains.yaml