spb/autoscholar

1import { STAGES } from "@autoscholar/schemas";2import type { Metadata } from "next";34export const metadata: Metadata = { title: "Methodology", alternates: { canonical: "/methodology" } };56const DETAILS: Record<string, string> = {7  preflight:8    "The frozen research instruction is parsed; scientific scope, feasibility, restricted or regulated activities, missing inputs and budgets are assessed. Unsafe or impossible studies are rejected with reasons.",9  framing:10    "A precise question, hypotheses or propositions, the intended contribution and a discipline-appropriate methodology are recorded, with evaluation criteria fixed before any test is run and honest null-result pathways identified.",11  literature:12    "Real scholarly registries (Crossref, OpenAlex, arXiv, PubMed, Semantic Scholar as applicable) are searched. Each reference is verified by identifier before it can be cited; a claim-to-source map is built. No reference is cited merely because a model believes it exists.",13  design:14    "Depending on the mode: genuine, legally usable data with documented provenance and licence; formal definitions and planned derivations; benchmark environments with baselines, seeds and leakage controls; or a search protocol with inclusion criteria. Synthetic simulations are labelled as synthetic.",15  execute:16    "Real code, experiments, simulations, formal checks or substantive qualitative work are executed in an isolated workspace. Environment, versions, seeds, commands and outputs are logged, including failures and negative findings.",17  robustness:18    "Sensitivity analyses, alternative specifications, stronger baselines, stress tests, proof checks or counterexample searches are run, and results that weaken the contribution are reported.",19  manuscript:20    "A LaTeX manuscript is generated from the recorded results with a real BibTeX database; every reported number must derive from stored artifacts.",21  review:22    "A separate review context that did not author the manuscript critiques novelty, validity, evidence, mathematics, statistics, references, ethics and writing. A response-to-review document records revisions. This is automated critique, not human peer review.",23  reproduction:24    "Scripts are re-executed and the PDF is rebuilt in a clean environment. Tables, figures, arithmetic, citation identifiers, fonts and build health are checked; representative pages are inspected.",25  quality:26    "Deterministic gates run on the control plane, independent of the authoring model. A hard failure blocks publication regardless of any review score.",27  publication:28    "A permanent paper number is allocated, artifacts are promoted with their digests, and the paper, feed and sitemap are updated transactionally. Automatic release requires every hard gate to pass; sensitive modes require human approval.",29};3031export default function MethodologyPage() {32  return (33    <div className="mx-auto max-w-3xl">34      <p className="eyebrow">Methodology</p>35      <h1 className="serif mt-1 text-3xl font-semibold">How a working paper is produced</h1>36      <p className="muted mt-3">37        Production is a durable state machine of stages with evidence requirements, not a single enormous38        prompt and not a cast of fictional named agents. The platform policy controls permissions, sandboxes,39        budgets and publication; the uploaded research instruction controls only the academic task.40      </p>41      <ol className="mt-8 space-y-6">42        {STAGES.map((s) => (43          <li key={s.key} className="grid gap-2 border-t pt-4 hairline sm:grid-cols-[4rem_1fr]">44            <span className="font-mono text-sm subtle">Stage {s.index}</span>45            <div>46              <h2 className="serif text-lg font-semibold">{s.name}</h2>47              <p className="muted mt-1 text-sm leading-relaxed">{DETAILS[s.key]}</p>48            </div>49          </li>50        ))}51      </ol>52      <h2 className="serif mt-12 text-xl font-semibold">Research modes</h2>53      <p className="muted mt-2 text-sm">54        Empirical, computational, theoretical, review, experimental and humanities modes each carry their own55        required artifacts and checks. Mixed-mode studies are allowed; a template never forces an experiment56        or a dataset that does not belong. Human participants, clinical interventions or biosafety-relevant57        work are out of scope unless documented approvals exist; otherwise work is restricted to lawful58        literature, public data, mathematics and simulations.59      </p>60      <h2 className="serif mt-10 text-xl font-semibold">Research standards</h2>61      <ul className="muted mt-2 list-disc space-y-1 pl-5 text-sm">62        <li>Length is not quality. A concise correct result outranks a long decorated one.</li>63        <li>64          No invented references, datasets, results, proofs, significance, approvals, affiliations, identities65          or reproducibility claims.66        </li>67        <li>No silent re-specification until a desired p-value appears; negative findings are preserved.</li>68        <li>All external content is untrusted data; it cannot alter platform rules.</li>69      </ul>70    </div>71  );72}73