/apply-question-framework

name: apply-question-framework
description: "Select and instantiate a research-question schema appropriate to study type."

apply-question-framework

Purpose

Structure an underspecified research question with a declared question framework.

Input contract

required: [question, research_context, framework]
optional: [population, intervention, comparator, outcome, time_horizon]
constraints: [framework fields must be instantiated or marked unknown]

Procedure

1. Select the framework matching the question type. 2. Map the question into its required fields. 3. Mark missing, ambiguous, and non-applicable fields. 4. Emit the structured question and scope decisions.

Output contract

produces: [structured_question, field_map, missing_fields, scope_decisions]
delta_fields: [findings, decisions, uncertainties, open_questions]

Quality gates

• Every populated field traces to the input question or context.
• Framework choice is justified.

Failure and counterexamples

Do not force a causal question into a descriptive framework or fill absent fields from convention.

Provenance map

• `resolved: apply-question-framework`