new-domain

name	new-domain
description	Create a New Domain

Create a New Domain

Set up the standard folder scaffold for a new domain so it's ready for policy document ingestion and rule extraction.

Input

/new-domain <domain>

If <domain> is not provided, prompt: "What should the domain be named? (e.g., snap, ak_doh)"

Read ../../core/output-fencing.md now.

Pre-flight

1. Domain name provided? — If not, prompt for it. Then continue.

Process

Step 1: Create folder structure

xlator new-domain <domain>

This creates input/policy_docs/, policy_facets/, specs/, and output/.

policy_facets/ is the parent folder for derived views of the domain's policy docs. The policy_facets/compressed/ and policy_facets/computations/ subfolders are created on the first /index-inputs run, which fans out parallel per-file workers that compress and extract each policy doc.

Step 2: Print next steps

:::important Domain '' is ready at $DOMAINS_DIR// :::

:::next_step Next steps:

1. Add .md policy documents to $DOMAINS_DIR/<domain>/input/policy_docs/
2. Run /index-inputs <domain> to build a document index
3. Run /refine-guidance <domain> to set extraction goals and ruleset guidance
4. Run /extract-ruleset <domain> to emit the Catala source :::

Common Mistakes to Avoid

• Domain names must be valid directory names: lowercase letters, digits, underscores, no spaces (e.g., snap, ak_doh, ca_calworks)