Causal research foundry

Persistent World State

Current focus context, refresh obligations, repair queue, and blocked surfaces. Paper-level causal claims remain local sections until population, intervention, mechanism, and limitation maps agree on an overlap.

Local Sections

articles

Source manifest

study metadataanchored
population scopeanchored
limitationsvisible

claims

Claim extraction

cause/effect fieldsqualified
evidence spansanchored
mechanism hypothesesreview

edges

Causal structure

dose/durationqualified
directionalityreview
off-topic driftblocked

policy

Admission gates

source qualitypass
claim groundingpass
causal scopequalified

Restriction And Gluing

Overlap	Contexts	Status	Decision Surface
article_claim	Source / Claim extraction	glues	evidence spans preserve article ids
claim_edge	Claim extraction / Causal structure	qualified	mechanism and dose fields need typed promotion
edge_gate	Causal structure / Admission gates	review	hypotheses are not settled intervention proof

Democritus preserves scoped causal claims while keeping unsupported mechanism and dose generalizations as visible obstructions.