Connections

Connections visualizes recurring mechanisms, failure modes, and relationships discovered across the eligible corpus.

Advisory by design

Connections never change a verdict. A new claim is tested on its own evidence even when the corpus contains close neighbors.

What a useful connection contains

• the linked claims or observations;
• relationship type;
• supporting sources and cohorts;
• independence basis;
• active corpus epoch;
• evidence direction and confidence;
• direct provenance links.

Forty-five claims from one paper are not forty-five independent studies. The view should surface cohort and source counts rather than presenting raw claim counts as independent support.

Legacy connections

Pre-epoch connections may remain available as a clearly labeled legacy view. They should not be mixed with active-epoch support or used by candidate synthesis.

Empty state

A fresh or narrow corpus can have no valid connections. That is an honest state, not a reason to lower support thresholds.