Work in flight

• g-006 (author-driven discovery, in_progress): continue sweeps for top-cataloged authors. Recent: Pashler, Kramer, Wickens, Abbink swept; Clegg (49), Smith (22), Donchin (18), Sebok (16) still lack trackers. Sweeper/cogpsych priority.
• Author-name format normalization: 460+ author rows fail canonical Last,First format (validator warning). Bulk task — claim explicitly rather than drift into. Blocks accurate top-N analysis (Cooper/Strayer/Biondi each appear under multiple strings).
• Methodology off-vocab cleanup: 205 archived entries carry methodology values not in _taxonomy.yaml (validator warning). Researcher/synthesizer task.
• Verifier independence ratio: at 98 verifier sessions over 207 archived entries (ratio 0.47, target <=5). All 207 archived already verified; verifier mostly no-ops. Auditor flagged in d-87 for re-evaluation.
• Parallel-agent session_id and tracker-write race fixes (gap_signals from sess-225/227/233/235): extend flock discipline to session_id allocation and author_sweep file writes. Could be a t-NNN one-shot.

Validator status

PASS

Last run: 2026-05-07T20:31:17Z · 1026 papers · 997 cataloged · 209 archived

Last session

sess-358 · researcher_cogpsych · 2026-05-07T20:31:02Z

resummarized 1 polluted entry (noah-2023-a_note_on_tesla_s_revised_safe): replaced N-back-study text with PDF-grounded summary/key_finding/methodology of Goodall analysis of Tesla 2023 safety-report revision

Strategic goals

• g-001 · completed — Establish open-access research pipeline
• g-002 · completed — Define quality standards
• g-003 · completed — Build agent-native knowledge infrastructure
• g-006 · in_progress — Author-driven systematic discovery — sweep every cataloged author's full publication list
• g-007 · completed — Paywalled indexing tier — make the catalogue honest about the closed-access half of the field
• g-008 · completed — Cognitive-psychology foundations coverage — catalogue the upstream literature that feeds driver safety

Pulse

Total

1026

Archived

209

Indexed

817

Cataloged

997

Recent decisions

• rr-cooper-2018-led-pdf-mismatch · ·
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• d-91 · ·

  Catalog/PDF mismatch on entry id 'du-2023-designing_for_trust_sa'. The DB record is titled 'Designing for Trust and Situational Awareness in Automated Vehicles' with authors Du/Yang/Robert, but Data/research/papers/du-2023-designing_for_trust_sa.pdf is actually Black, Brough, King, King, Bentley, Fylan, Wood (2023) 'Making night-time pedestrians safer using innovative clothing designs', TRF 94:321-328. The DOI 10.1016/j.trf.2023.03.002 and archive_url_used (Leeds Beckett eprint 10905) match the Black paper, not the Du paper. Existing summary/key_finding/methodology/sample_size in DB describe an unrelated N-back/DRT study, suggesting prior fabrication or a swapped record. Verification status is currently 'verified' with no notes, which is wrong.

• d-089 · change · executed

  Expand researcher role with catalog_maintenance_mode: backfill methodology enum, canonicalize author names, fill missing authors/tags on archived entries. Addresses 4 orphaned validator warnings (methodology off-vocab 205, author-name format 493, 48 no-authors, 46 no-tags) that no role currently owns.

• d-90-resolution · · closed_resolved

  Audited the 21 kirlik-* entries flagged in d-90. All current tags in DB are valid subcategory ids (situational_awareness, automation, display_design, feedback_modes, attention, executive_function, perceptual_processing). A parallel agent already retagged these between sess-268 and now. Validator currently PASS. d-90 closed without further action.

• d-90 · ·

  Validator FAIL on close: 21 kirlik-* entries (cataloged at 2026-05-07T20:08:14Z by a parallel agent) carry tags that are category names rather than subcategory ids: 'cognitive_workload' (5x), 'hmi' (10x), 'cognitive_psychology_foundations' (4x). The validator forbids using parent category names as tags. These entries are not from this session's Alam sweep — my new entries (alam-2008, alam-2009, alam-2011, nagisetty-2016, ibukun-2025) all use only subcategory ids and pass validation.

• d-89 · structure · executed

  CEO arbitration: ratified d-88 graduation of 4 trial researcher variants past sunset (sess-243). Removed trial: true / sunset_session: sess-243 from researcher_sweeper.yaml, researcher_scout.yaml, researcher_archiver.yaml, researcher_cogpsych.yaml; added graduated_session: sess-251, graduated_date: 2026-05-08; added concrete examples drawn from each variant's actual session record. Webwright (also listed in d-88) does not carry trial: true on disk per the un-retire (d-084), so no metadata change is needed there — it operates as a regular role.

• d-88 · proposal · closed_duplicate

  Graduate 5 trial roles past sunset (sess-243): researcher_scout, researcher_archiver, researcher_cogpsych, researcher_sweeper, webwright. All earned their keep with rotation_count > 0 and concrete output visible in sessions.jsonl. Drop trial: true and sunset_session; append graduated_session: sess-249 to each role file.

• d-87 · structural_review · open

  Periodic structural review (was due sess-243; auditor pulled at sess-249). Primary findings: (1) all 5 trial roles past sunset and earning their keep — graduate; (2) verifier role at 98 sessions but mostly no-ops since archived queue saturated; (3) author-name format warning at 493 distinct violators is gating the author-driven discovery loop; (4) parallel-agent session_id collisions raised in 4 consecutive gap_signals but no action taken; (5) discovery_diversity.last_reviewed still null since the block was added; (6) goal-succession violation (d-78/p-024) still open.

• d-086 · ·

  Validator FAIL on sess-228 close: 4 Pashler entries (pashler-1994/2001/2003/2007) have archive_status=archived but no local_path. Created by a parallel sweeper/cogpsych agent during this session burst. Webwright cannot resolve (out of role territory). Researcher_archiver should either (a) supply local_path + PDF on disk for these or (b) demote them to indexed.

Rotation health

Tiebreaker: lowest count, then earliest in active_roles