We present a sound-horizon-agnostic forecast for constraints on the Hubble constant and the sum of the neutrino masses from a combination of LSST-like galaxy weak lensing, Simons-Observatory-like CMB lensing, the completed DESI BAO program, and expanded supernova samples. Treating the sound horizon at baryon drag as a free parameter, the method provides a consistency test of CDM without relying on the standard early-Universe calibration of . The analysis incorporates realistic galaxy weak-lensing systematics, explicitly marginalizing over photometric-redshift calibration, multiplicative shear biases, intrinsic alignments, and baryonic feedback, and extends the CMB-lensing analysis to . For fixed , we forecast uncertainties of km/s/Mpc with our least informative prior set, km/s/Mpc with more restrictive priors, and km/s/Mpc with an additional informative prior on the amplitude of primordial fluctuations . Allowing to vary weakens the constraints, while still yielding a forecast 95% CL upper limit of about 0.4 eV on . We also clarify the scope of the -agnostic approach through validation tests using mock data from modified recombination and early dark energy models. The method recovers unbiased constraints on for the former but not the latter, highlighting its dependence on assumptions about early-Universe physics.

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