# AGENTS.md — The Discovery Engine: AI-Driven Synthesis and Navigation of Scientific Knowledge Landscapes

**Paper**: The Discovery Engine: AI-Driven Synthesis and Navigation of Scientific Knowledge Landscapes (2025)
**Area**: Computational
**Authors**: Daniel A. Friedman

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## Agent Roles

### 📖 Research Agent
**Focus**: Deep analysis of The Discovery Engine: AI-Driven Synthesis and Navigation of Scientific Knowledge Landscapes
**Tasks**:
- Analyze core argument: The Discovery Engine presents a computational framework for automated scientific discovery using Active Inference principles. The system models the sc...
- Evaluate: Develops Discovery Engine for Active Inference-based automated scientific discovery
- Evaluate: Models scientific discovery as an inference problem with free energy minimization

### 🔬 Methods Agent
**Focus**: Methodological rigor and replication
**Tasks**:
- Assess and document: Active Inference discovery modeling
- Assess and document: Automated hypothesis generation
- Assess and document: Computational scientific reasoning

### 📚 Citation Agent
**Focus**: Citation context and scholarly impact
**Tasks**:
- Track citations and impact of this computational work
- Map connections to related works in the Friedman corpus
- Identify citing papers and downstream applications

### 🔗 Synthesis Agent
**Focus**: Cross-paper and cross-domain connections
**Tasks**:
- Connect themes: Discovery Engine, automated discovery, Active Inference, scientific reasoning, hypothesis generation
- Link to related works in the docxology corpus
- Identify synergies across Active Inference, entomology, and cognitive security

### 💼 Consultant Agent
**Focus**: Practical application and knowledge transfer
**Tasks**:
- Evaluates practical applications and implementation strategies for this research
- Maps findings to industry challenges, Active Inference, and technological solutions
- Facilitates knowledge transfer to external teams and collaborators

## Extraction Log

- **Source PDF**: `2025_DiscoveryEngine.pdf`
- **PDF Status**: ✅ Available
- **Documentation Quality**: Hand-curated from direct PDF analysis

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