Drafts by default.
Lead approval to write.
Agents propose, people decide. A change is a diff a reviewer can read, an approval that carries a name, and a record that cannot be quietly rewritten. This is the review desk, with the same checks the console applies.
Version ledger
| Version | Author | Reviewed by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| v15 | research-agent | Awaiting review | Pending approval |
| v14 | research-agent | research-lead | Archived |
| v13 | research-agent | research-lead | Archived |
| v12 | research-agent | research-lead | Archived |
Audit trail
- helper-planediff generated and held for review
- research-agentcreated draft v15 from v14
- research-leadapproved v14
Fingerprint chain
- v12
············H(text) - v13
············H(v12 ‖ text) - v14
············H(v13 ‖ text) - v15
············H(v14 ‖ text)
Each fingerprint covers the revision text and the one before it, computed here in your browser from the lines shown.
What an agent may do
Every action has a class.
Least privilege for agents means a short list of things allowed, a clear class for everything that needs a person, and a refusal for the rest. Select an action to see the path it takes.
Decision path
Summarise new papers
The request is queued, run, and its output stored as a result for review. It is never written to the archive by the run itself.
- Session and workspace assignment are verified.
- A contract names the draft operation.
- The run is queued, then executed.
- The output is stored as a draft result.
- It waits for lead review.
- An event records the request.
Recorded as ai · queued an AI request
State and record
Two small state machines, and one record.
A run and a proposal each move through a handful of states. Every transition that matters writes an event with the actor, the action, a detail line and the time.
AI run
| From | To | By | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|
| queued | running | system | ai · queued an AI request |
| running | complete | system | result stored |
| running | error | system | error message stored |
Prompt proposal
| From | To | By | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pending approval | Approved | reviewer | prompt · approved |
| Pending approval | Rejected | reviewer | prompt · rejected |
Proposal record
1{2 "title": "Tighten citation rule",3 "summary": "Draft summaries only, cite every source by record id.",4 "requestedBy": "research-agent",5 "status": "Pending approval"6}Event record
1{2 "workspace_id": "biology",3 "actor": "research-lead",4 "action": "prompt",5 "detail": "research-lead approved “Tighten citation rule”.",6 "created_at": "2026-10-05T09:41:07Z"7}How it behaves
Questions a reviewer asks.
Can an agent write to the archive by itself?
What is versioned?
Who is the approver?
Can an approved change be undone?
What does the fingerprint chain show?
What happens if a run fails?
Latest papers
Infrastructure
First papers are in preparation.
Each piece states what it claims and what it does not. See what the institute has published so far in Papers.
Review an agent’s work for yourself.
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