Every data source in Palanor is a signal — simple (oil price, FRED data, FX), composite (Palanor Indices), interpretive (Schemas), or user-built. The Save as Signal action in Lattice Canvas is how you build the last category.
When to save a graph as a signal
If you find yourself composing the same sub-graph across multiple scenarios — a pattern you keep returning to — save it. Once saved, it appears in your Signal Library as a custom signal, ready to be dragged into the next canvas as a single node instead of rebuilt from scratch.
How to save
In Lattice Canvas, with at least one node on the canvas, click Save as Signal in the toolbar. A dialog asks for a name and an optional description.
The name will appear in your Signal Library exactly as you write it — choose something a future you will recognize at a glance. The description appears on the signal's detail page; use it to capture what the composite reads, why the components, what it does not capture.
What happens behind the scenes
Three things happen on save.
First, a new signal is added to your organization's catalog with source set to custom. It becomes searchable in every signal picker in the platform.
Second, your organization is auto-subscribed to the new signal at priority 3 (neutral). Open the signal in Signal Watch to retune its priority.
Third, the underlying graph is persisted to your organization's custom signal records — so when the platform builds future scoring around composite signals, your saved composite has a definition it can read.
A note on the lattice
Custom signals are first-class. They show up in Lattice Canvas's Signal Library exactly like Indices and simple signals. You can drag them onto a new canvas as nodes, you can reference them from scenarios, and Context News ranking will weight news against them just as it does for any other priority signal. One math, one vernacular — extended by you.