Sozu / causal cards

Factors are a checklist. Weights are not.

Use dated, source-backed news to verify a mechanism and its conditions. Only then inspect contemporaneous price shocks. A matched shock is an observation, never an automatic edge weight.

causal cards
candidate edges
reviewed edges
Weight state: unmeasured · propagation off Checklist completion makes an event eligible for inspection. It does not calibrate a gain.

Frozen CE-040 data. “Retained” means the deterministic screen found a route; it does not mean the edge, sign, activation, or weight has been validated.