Glossary

Stub — to be expanded.

Agentic research pipeline

An information system in which one or more AI agents (LLMs with tools, possibly orchestrated in multi-agent topologies) execute non-trivial portions of a research workflow.

Artifact

Any durable output of the pipeline — code, figures, tables, intermediate notes, prompts, datasets, drafts.

Autonomy level

A 0–3 score capturing how much human oversight a system requires per task. See projects/EVALUATION.md.

Capability (deprecated; use pipeline stage + architectural feature)

Earlier draft term for what a system does. Split into orthogonal axes in v0.1.

Knowledge layer

The pipeline's interface to prior scholarship — literature, citations, theory, reusable methods.

Knowledge production

The act, by an information system, of generating scholarly artifacts from inputs and data + knowledge.

Pipeline stage

One of the canonical phases of the research lifecycle — ideation, literature, design, data, analysis, drafting, review, replication, dissemination.

RISE

Research Information Systems Engineering. See Definition.