Research Atlas

A research portfolio as an event-sourced ActiveGraph application: Git is canonical, the graph is derived, agents propose changes through pull requests.

Empirical Agent Science

Controlled studies of what agent systems actually do and establish: validation of synthetic populations, self-modification audits, benchmark campaigns. Claims are gated on preregistered evidence, not demos.

WorkKindStagePortfolioAs of
RegimespaperCitable preprintcomplete 2026-08-02
When Self-Modification Becomes MemorypaperPublic working paperactive 2026-08-29
Passing Coarse Marginal Checks Can Be CheappaperCitable preprintactive 2026-08-05
TreasureBench Empirical PaperpaperPotential paperwaiting blocked2026-08-05
TreasureBench SpecificationinstrumentActive researchwaiting blocked2026-08-05

Object-Level Discovery Science

The distributed-discovery theory set: how shared information, common sources, incentives, and thresholds shape what groups of investigators can discover.

WorkKindStagePortfolioAs of
The Common-Source TrappaperPublic working paperactive 2026-08-29
The Incentive to IgnorepaperParkedparked 2026-08-05
The Information Sharing FrontierpaperCitable preprintactive 2026-09-01
The Shared Discovery ParadoxpaperCitable preprintcomplete 2026-08-02
Threshold DiscoverypaperParkedparked 2026-08-05

Research Systems & Methodology

How agentic research should be governed and audited: the Research Audit Contract, executable research governance, research-systems papers, and this Atlas as a working instrument.

WorkKindStagePortfolioAs of
Distributed Discovery Lab PaperpaperPotential paperoptional 2026-08-05
Executable Research GovernancesynthesisPotential paperwaiting blocked2026-08-05
Research Audit ContractpaperPotential paperactive 2026-08-05

Agent Primitives & Infrastructure

Substrate work: event-sourced runtimes, log-centric agents, packs, and the tooling other lanes run on (ActiveGraph and its ecosystem).

WorkKindStagePortfolioAs of
The Log Is the AgentpaperCitable preprintactive 2026-08-02