research
Research
An index of our public research: a summary and date per piece, with the original text (TXT) in the data room. Pre-pivot research from retired business lines sits under Historical archive — please read it together with its positioning notice.
Research
Harness²: Teaching an Agent to Rewrite Its Own Operating Manual — A Source-Checked ReadingA source-checked reading of google-research's Harness²: probe-driven self-editing of an agent's operating manual with weights frozen, a persistent experience library, and the paper's own negative control. Magpie: A Local Gateway for All Your AI CLI Channels — A Source-Checked ReadingA source-checked reading of Magpie, the local AI channel gateway: four-protocol translation, atomic config rewrites, the channel-registry design, and the terms-of-service risk boundary. Mapping the Threats: A Top-Journal Survey of AI Agent Security and PrivacyA source-checked reading of the IEEE COMST survey of LM-based agents: five-module architecture, a four-way threat taxonomy, memory poisoning, prompt stealing, and cascading hallucination. Two "Awesome" AI Collections, Often Confused: A Source-Checked Inventory of the 132-App RepoA source-checked inventory of two easily confused "Awesome" collections: identity verification, all 137 projects counted by category, code weight, the real cost of "just run it", and two claims that fail checking. Market Research Public PackIndustry landscape, Top 10 market mechanisms, deep dives, key data points, and seven unverified items, with source types and methodology notes retained. 2026 AI Agent Ecosystem Demand-Side Reality ReportDemand-side evidence and confidence boundaries for how agents discover, invoke, and procure external capabilities. AI-Learn Package (research methods, open)How this site is built: the A++ aesthetic standard, the website scorecard, the automation pipeline, and benchmark studies — the methods are research output too, fully open.Historical archive
Pre-pivot research from retired business lines, kept for reference.
AI Agent Infrastructure Landscape (2026)Historical archive (retired business line, reference only) · Pre-pivot research; includes positioning notice. Market Sizing Research (2026)Historical archive (retired business line, reference only) · Pre-pivot research; includes positioning notice. Category-Definition Series 001Historical archive (retired business line, reference only) · Pre-pivot research file; includes positioning notice.Governance documents (governance principles, organization, decision summary, quality standard) are not in the research group — see the Governance group in the data room. Per-piece HTML editions of research will be prioritized by citation data; until then the data-room originals are canonical.