Scientific agents gain auditability through enforced, re-verifiable research workflows

The AfS platform uses constrained research nodes, frozen commitments, artifact ledgers, independent review, and persistent memory to make long-running agent work easier to audit.

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Di Wang · Yu Liu · Bing Cui · Chaoqun Ji · Dongyuan Ni · Jingyu Lu · +2 more

IdeaHorizon Team

Research Digest··2 min read
The IdeaHorizon Team describes AfS, a platform for scientific projects spanning dozens of agent runs with only occasional human involvement.

The authors designed AfS around three time horizons.

Why this paper

From IdeaHorizon Team · Part of Agent Rule Compliance, now 23 papers

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Scientific credibility is achieved by making non-compliant states unrepresentable through mechanically enforced laws, not by asking the model to behave.

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