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causal-design

Design or audit the identification strategy for an observational study. Use when the task concerns estimands, causal assumptions, threats to identification, or defensible research design rather than model implementation.

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# 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.