A Research Agent Should Leave a Paper Trail
TL;DR for operators A long-running research agent can produce an impressive manuscript while still leaving a manager unable to reconstruct what evidence was gathered, what failed, which claims were checked, or where a human should intervene. pAI/MSc1 is most useful as a response to that problem: although its fixed workflow uses 23 specialist agents across 30 graph nodes, its more consequential design choice is to preserve discovery, planning, theory, experimentation, synthesis, review, checkpoints, and budget accounting as named artifacts that can be inspected, resumed, audited, and structurally validated. ...