Domain adapters

The swarm protocol is domain-neutral. A domain adapter says what "work", "ownership", "evidence" and "done" mean for this kind of task. Pick one, combine several, or write a project-specific adapter in .swarm/profile.md. Do not treat these as mandatory pipelines.

Software / code

Units: module, feature, crate, service, migration, test cluster.
Ownership: source + test paths; shared manifests/lockfiles/barrels/schemas are integrator-only.
Acceptance: build/test/lint commands, typecheck, generated-code compile, runtime smoke.
Verifier: reruns commands, reads the diff, checks edge cases and API compatibility; no self-review.
Evidence: command + observed result, test names, compiler output, benchmark numbers.

Research / analysis

Units: one question, source cluster, claim set, or section.
Ownership: one notes/report file per unit; no shared notes file.
Acceptance: every factual claim has a source URL; dates are explicit; counter-evidence is considered.
Verifier: samples claims against sources, checks citation resolvability and recency, looks for unsupported synthesis.
Evidence: source URL, quote/paraphrase, access date, confidence, open questions.

Content / documents / translation

Units: one section, chapter, page, or locale.
Ownership: separate section files; the editor/integrator owns the assembled document and style.
Acceptance: section brief, word/character budget, terminology/glossary, citations, style guide, rendered artifact (PDF/HTML/DOCX) where applicable.
Verifier: reads the rendered artifact, checks structure/voice/term consistency, samples facts.
Evidence: rendered path, word count, diff, terminology check, citation check.

Data / analytics

Units: one dataset, metric, query, notebook, or chart.
Ownership: input data read-only; one output table/notebook/report per unit; shared schemas need an integrator.
Acceptance: reproducible script with pinned inputs; output schema; row counts; metric definitions; checksums or input hashes.
Verifier: reruns the pipeline on a sample or full dataset; recomputes key numbers; checks nulls, duplicates, units and time zones.
Evidence: command, input hash, output rows, metric values, notebook/report path.

Design / UX / visual

Units: screen, component, flow, illustration, design token set.
Ownership: one source/design file per unit; shared tokens/components/integrator.
Acceptance: rendered artifact at required sizes/states; accessibility (contrast, focus, keyboard, labels); interaction states; visual regression.
Verifier: renders the artifact in an isolated display; checks default/minimum/empty/error states; never accepts a shared-desktop screenshot.
Evidence: screenshot path, dimensions, command, contrast/focus notes.
See visual-testing.md for isolation and deterministic capture; it is optional for non-visual work.

Operations / infrastructure

Units: one service, deployment, migration, runbook, or config change.
Ownership: infra files and runbooks; live environments are not "write scopes".
Acceptance: dry-run/plan output, diff, rollback procedure, monitoring/health check, no production writes without explicit human approval.
Verifier: reviews the plan/diff, runs read-only checks, confirms rollback and blast radius.
Evidence: dry-run output, diff, health check, rollback command, approval record.

How to adapt without inventing a pipeline

Write .swarm/profile.md with: domain, artifacts, commands, evidence types, approval boundaries.
In .swarm/brief.md, replace command-only success criteria with "evidence type + check".
In each task card, name the artifact and the verifier action, not the steps.
In verification, use the matching adapter above; independent evidence is the invariant.

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