Contributing

This knowledge base accepts two kinds of contributions:

1. New paper notes — markdown notes on academic references that relate to Research Information Systems Engineering.
2. New project entries — structured evaluations of agentic-research systems (open-source or commercial).

We also welcome corrections, prose improvements, and additions to the controlled vocabularies.

Adding a paper

1. Add the BibTeX entry to papers/references.bib.
2. Pick a citekey of the form lastnameYEARword (lowercase, no punctuation) — e.g., wu2025agenticreasoning.
3. Create papers/notes/<citekey>.md following the template in papers/schema.md.
4. Fill in the structured sections (summary, contribution, method, relevance to RISE, critique).
5. Tag with themes drawn from projects/VOCABULARY.md.
6. Open a pull request.

Adding a project

1. Copy projects/landscape/sakana-ai-scientist.yml as a template.
2. Fill in fields per projects/schema.md.
3. Score the project against the eight dimensions of projects/EVALUATION.md. Provide a one-line justification per dimension.
4. Cross-reference papers (references: [citekey1, citekey2]).
5. Open a pull request.

Style

• Tone: academic. Assume a research-literate reader.
• Cite when making non-obvious claims, using [@citekey] syntax in markdown body (rendered by the mkdocs-bibtex plugin).
• Prefer specificity over hedging.
• Do not edit auto-generated sections of docs/projects/index.md or docs/papers/index.md — edit the YAML/markdown sources instead.

License of contributions

By contributing, you agree your contribution will be licensed under CC-BY-4.0.