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  "semantics": "Edges point from a record to its prerequisite; this is a provenance/dependency DAG, not a causal energy model. No evidence or result nodes are invented.",
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      "label": "Can a structured process improve the next research decision?",
      "record": null,
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      "id": "bounded-service",
      "type": "SERVICE",
      "label": "Energy service and evaluation boundary remain to be chosen",
      "record": null,
      "status": "proposed"
    },
    {
      "id": "resource-limits",
      "type": "RESOURCE",
      "label": "Time, attention, compute, cost and burden caps remain unset",
      "record": null,
      "status": "proposed"
    },
    {
      "id": "process-helps",
      "type": "HYPOTHESIS",
      "label": "Structure adds decision value within resource limits",
      "record": null,
      "status": "proposed"
    },
    {
      "id": "process-costs",
      "type": "HYPOTHESIS",
      "label": "Structure adds overhead or correlated error without useful benefit",
      "record": null,
      "status": "proposed"
    },
    {
      "id": "different-outcomes",
      "type": "PREDICTION",
      "label": "The competing process claims imply different quality-cost outcomes",
      "record": null,
      "status": "proposed"
    },
    {
      "id": "process-pilot",
      "type": "EXPERIMENT",
      "label": "A proposed screen and comparative pilot",
      "record": "research/evaluations/EDC-V-0001.json",
      "status": "proposed"
    },
    {
      "id": "pause-rule",
      "type": "STOP_CONDITION",
      "label": "Pause when no decision-relevant change or no feasible authorized action",
      "record": null,
      "status": "proposed"
    },
    {
      "id": "allocation-choice",
      "type": "DECISION",
      "label": "Prepare the screen; do not execute a trial",
      "record": "research/decisions/EDC-D-0001.json",
      "status": "proposed"
    }
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      "to": "process-question",
      "relation": "depends_on"
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    {
      "from": "process-costs",
      "to": "process-question",
      "relation": "depends_on"
    },
    {
      "from": "different-outcomes",
      "to": "process-helps",
      "relation": "depends_on"
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    {
      "from": "different-outcomes",
      "to": "process-costs",
      "relation": "depends_on"
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    {
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      "to": "different-outcomes",
      "relation": "depends_on"
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    {
      "from": "process-pilot",
      "to": "bounded-service",
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    {
      "from": "process-pilot",
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      "relation": "depends_on"
    },
    {
      "from": "allocation-choice",
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