The working A prototype: use its controls to test the build question.
Rehearse a frozen research-agent workflow with synthetic citations and no live agents, browsing, tools, autonomous truth-finding or external effect.
RN conceived the question, structured the evidence boundaries, designed the experience, implemented the prototype and documented its limits.
This independent prototype demonstrates an approach; it is not a deployed client system, professional advice or proof of real-world outcomes.
Work through the controls with a situation of your own rather than the sample values. The tool responds to what you put in, so the useful output comes from real input, and everything is processed in your browser as you go. Any sample content you find already loaded is there to show the shape of a filled-in state, and you can clear it and start again at any point.
The build overview sets out the question, the purpose, the role and the evidence status in one place, and the public record behind it states what changed, what another person can reuse and what supports the system. If you want to judge how far this build should be trusted, the record is the page to read, not this one.
RESEARCH AGENT ARCHITECTURE · SYNTHETIC REHEARSAL
Build a research team of AI agents
that can show their work.
Govern agents that discover, retrieve, verify, challenge, synthesize, cite and escalate research—while preserving every source, disagreement and stop.
TRACE NOT RUN
Choose a frozen research case.
Which fictional archive rule controls public reuse of workshop photographs?
Bounded to the fictional archive rule; not legal clearance.
- 01 · PASS
BRIEF STEWARD
Validated fictional scope and source policy.
NO INPUT → SUPPORTED - 02 · PASS
DISCOVERY AGENT
Matched only frozen fixture tags.
SUPPORTED → S-1 · S-2 - 03 · PASS
RETRIEVAL AGENT
Retrieved immutable synthetic records.
S-1 · S-2 → S-1 · S-2 - 04 · PASS
PROVENANCE AGENT
Source metadata complete.
S-1 · S-2 → S-1 · S-2 - 05 · PASS
CLAIM MAPPER
Mapped explicit supports, contradicts, and mentions edges.
S-1 · S-2 → C-1 - 06 · PASS
VERIFICATION AGENT
Current direct sources support a bounded finding.
C-1 → C-1 - 07 · PASS
CHALLENGE AGENT
Current direct sources support a bounded finding.
C-1 → NO OUTPUT - 08 · PASS
SYNTHESIS AGENT
Produced bounded wording.
C-1 → C-1 - 09 · PASS
GOVERNANCE AGENT
Route to human editor.
VERIFIED_FOR_HUMAN_REVIEW → NO OUTPUT
C-1 Reuse requires recorded permission and credit.
S-1 SUPPORTS · S-2 SUPPORTS
S-1 · GOVERNING
Workshop image rule · synthetic://harborlight/s-1
published 2026-07-01 · fresh until 2026-12-31
S-2 · PRIMARY
Approved reuse procedure · synthetic://harborlight/s-2
published 2026-07-02 · fresh until 2026-12-31
Bounded to the fictional archive rule; not legal clearance. · No evidence in this bounded fixture does not mean no evidence exists.
Research editor reviews before use.
SYNTHETIC CITATIONS ARE NOT REAL SOURCES · RETRIEVAL IS NOT VERIFICATION · CITATION PRESENCE IS NOT ENTAILMENT · A SOURCE RECORD IS NOT TRUTH · SYNTHESIS IS NOT EXPERT APPROVAL · NO LIVE BROWSING, TOOL CALL, PRIVATE DATA, PUBLISHING, OR EXTERNAL EFFECT