Causal Design

Design and audit identification strategies for observational causal inference.

Output Path

Per rules/review-artefact-routing.md (auto-loads in research projects (path-scoped to paper-*/ and paper/)):

Source slug: causal-design
Write reports to: reviews/<scope>/causal-design/<YYYY-MM-DD-HHMM>.md inside the project, where <scope> is the paper slug (e.g. paper-philtech) for paper-level audits or _project for project-level reviews. Path is relative to the research project root, not the Task-Management repo.
Never at project root (./CRITIC-REPORT.md-style filenames are forbidden — pre-rule layout).
Idempotency: if today's timestamp exists, append a same-day descriptor to the path base ({date}-HHMM-revision.md, {date}-HHMM-r2.md, {date}-HHMM-pre-submission.md) — never overwrite.
Index update: if reviews/INDEX.md exists, write a one-line entry under "Latest per source" pointing at the new file. Otherwise review-recap will rebuild the index next time it runs.
Infrastructure repos (Task-Management, atlas-workspace, etc.): this section does not apply — the path-scoped rule won't load there.