The graph has been built for months and fed nothing but a dashboard. Nothing in
the autonomy pipeline has ever read an edge: not the coordinator, not
calibration, not execution. Its only downstream consumer, trade_signals, last
produced anything in April. It was roughly 70% of the llm bill and informed no
prediction, decision or order.
Relationships are the one piece of context a per-event coordinator genuinely
cannot derive from its own articles, because "this company supplies that one" is
knowledge about companies rather than about this event. So the coordinator now
receives the relationships of the companies the event is about, and is told to
name the relationship in causal_channel when it reasons through one.
The cutoff filter is the part that matters. first_seen_at on a relationship is
derived from article dates rather than processing time, so a historical proposal
only sees what the world had actually revealed by its own cutoff. Without that
this feature would quietly reintroduce the lookahead the evidence check exists to
prevent, and it is pinned by a test rather than left to review.
Relationships are explicitly background rather than evidence: predictions still
have to cite the article ids the story came from, and an instrument the articles
give no reason to care about is still not a prediction.
strategy_version moves to autonomy-2, because a prompt change this material
changes what a prediction means and the two populations should be comparable
later rather than silently blended.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WnNxwxfXSbeNtjvtz5gayb
