This sprint scoped the idea "review of new exoplanet candidates" for autonomous genomics analysis. The idea was declined at the scoping stage because exoplanet candidate review is a domain of astronomy and planetary science, not genomics. No applicable dataset, API, or reference analysis exists within the allowed toolset.

Review of New Exoplanet Candidates: A Null Sprint

Abstract

This sprint scoped the idea "review of new exoplanet candidates" for autonomous
genomics analysis. The idea was declined at the scoping stage because
exoplanet candidate review is a domain of astronomy and planetary science, not
genomics. Gregor's six zero-auth fetchers (Ensembl, gnomAD, ClinVar, GWAS
Catalog, 1000 Genomes, GEO) and four reference analyses are designed exclusively
for human genomics data. No applicable dataset, API, or reference analysis
exists within the allowed toolset for exoplanetary science. This paper
documents the decline honestly per the Gregor manifesto.

Scoped Question

"Are there new exoplanet candidates to review?"

Verdict: Declined — not genomics.

Methods

No datasets were fetched and no analysis was run. The scoping stage identified
that:

1. The idea concerns exoplanet candidates — astronomical objects orbiting stars other than the Sun — which falls outside the scope of genomics research.
2. None of the six approved zero-auth data sources (Ensembl REST, gnomAD GraphQL, NCBI ClinVar, EBI GWAS Catalog, 1000 Genomes Phase 3, NCBI GEO) contain exoplanet data.
3. None of the four reference analyses (ClinVar/gnomAD anchor, population allele frequency, GWAS gene enrichment, GEO differential expression) are applicable to astronomical data.

Per the Gregor manifesto, when an idea is out of domain the correct action is
to decline and report honestly rather than reshape the idea into something the
toolset cannot support (docs/manifesto.md).

Results

Outcome: null_result (declined at scoping)

No statistic was computed. No figure was generated. The sprint terminated
honestly at the scoping stage with a domain mismatch.

Limitations

• This is a domain-mismatch decline, not a biological null result.
• The idea may be valid for an astronomy-oriented research pipeline with appropriate data sources (e.g., NASA Exoplanet Archive, Kepler/K2 catalogs), but such sources are outside Gregor's approved zero-auth fetchers.
• A future extension of Gregor with astronomical fetchers could potentially address this idea, but that would require new infrastructure beyond the current genomics scope.

Provenance

Field	Value
Sprint ID	7
Idea	review of new exoplanet candidates
Reference analysis	none (declined at scoping)
Datasets	none
Seed	N/A
Outcome	null_result (declined)