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The problem is precision, not retrieval. A keyword alert for "C. elegans" returns mostly molecular biology; one for "plasticity" returns mostly deep learning. So this sources narrowly and then reads what it finds against a written brief. Three sources in descending order of precision: new work citing a curated seed set (OpenAlex), then the arXiv and bioRxiv windows. Claude Haiku scores every candidate 0-3 against docs/research/literature-watch/context.md, and Claude Opus writes two or three sentences per survivor — what it found, and what it would change here. Roughly 600-900 records a week reduce to a handful, at single-digit cents. The brief is what makes the scores mean anything: it names the open questions, so relevance is judged against the work in front of the project rather than a fixed keyword list. It and the seed list are hand-maintained on purpose, and reviewed with each phase plan — a stale seed set is how a watch like this quietly stops finding anything, and nothing in the machinery can notice that. Delivery is a weekly issue rather than a committed file: notified, dismissible, and no weekly noise in a history that is read as a research record. The digest embeds the ids it reported and the workflow reads those back out of previous issues, so the seen-list lives where a human already looks — no state file, no cache to expire. The citation-chaining window is wider than the run cadence because only publication-date filters are free on OpenAlex and a DOI is indexed some days late; the seen-list is what makes that overlap cost nothing. Sources fail independently, and a page failing late keeps the pages that already arrived — the first live run lost bioRxiv entirely to one timeout on page nine. The test package is named entrypoints/ rather than scripts/ because a sibling test finds the repository root by walking up to the first ancestor holding a scripts/ directory, and a package of that name shadows it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Principle 13 of the phase protocol: a close changes which questions are open, so anything pointed at the old ones is now pointed at nothing. The literature watch's brief and seed list are the standing case — neither can report that it has gone stale, and a brief naming questions that closed two phases ago still returns a confident, well-formed digest about the wrong things. The watch's own docs now point at that principle rather than naming a cadence of their own. The SDK joins the dev group so pyright checks the Messages API calls against the real types rather than against Any: the client is annotated under TYPE_CHECKING while the import stays deferred, so --dry-run and the unit tests still run without it. A deliberate bad kwarg confirms the overloads are being resolved rather than waved through. Nothing needs it at simulation runtime, and the weekly workflow still installs it into an ephemeral environment. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughChangesThe pull request adds a literature-watch pipeline. It collects OpenAlex, arXiv, and bioRxiv records, deduplicates and scores candidates, renders a digest, and publishes it through a scheduled GitHub Actions workflow. It also adds configuration, documentation, local workflows, and offline tests. Literature watch
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GitHubActions->>GitHubIssues: read reported IDs
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The new weekly literature-watch job builds a digest issue automatically. As written, a manually supplied end-date value is passed unquoted into the command line of the step that holds the API key, and the job's external build actions are referenced by movable version tags, so both should be tightened before enabling the workflow. Separately, when one source partially fails, the published digest can silently look complete or drop already-collected papers, so a weekly report could understate what was found. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In @.github/workflows/literature-watch.yml:
- Line 67: Update the “Build the digest” step to pass dispatch values through
quoted environment variables rather than interpolating inputs.until or
inputs.dry_run into the shell command. Build a Bash args array with --seen-file,
conditionally add --until "$UNTIL" when nonempty, select --dry-run or --out
digest.md based on "$DRY_RUN", and invoke the script with "${args[@]}".
- Line 31: Update the checkout action reference in the workflow to pin
actions/checkout to the full commit SHA for the intended v7 release, retaining
“v7” as a trailing comment.
In `@scripts/literature_watch.py`:
- Around line 205-207: Update the OpenAlex response-validation and arXiv XML
parsing paths in the paging logic to catch SourceError and ET.ParseError after
prior pages, preserving found, marking the source partial, and stopping further
paging instead of propagating the exception through gather; retain the existing
transport-failure partial-page behavior.
- Around line 153-156: Update the fetcher flow around the partial-page handling
in the paging function to return an explicit partial status when a later page
fails, while preserving already fetched records. Propagate that status through
the caller and add the affected source to Sweep.failures before rendering the
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Pin each third-party action to a full commit SHA. Mutable tags can be retargeted and cause changed action code to run in this workflow. Keep the release tag in a trailing comment. The referenced tags exist, but the repository has no checked-in SHA-pinning requirement; this remains a supply-chain security issue rather than a repository-policy violation.
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In @.github/workflows/literature-watch.yml at line 31, Update the checkout
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…an see Three findings, all still valid against the code. The workflow interpolated `inputs.until` and `inputs.dry_run` straight into a `run:` block. `until` is free text on a dispatchable workflow, so that is a command-injection seam; both now arrive as quoted environment variables and the command is assembled as a Bash args array. Checked against an empty window, a date, dry-run, and a payload — which now arrives as one literal argument. A source stopping early only ever printed to stderr, so the digest header said nothing and a partial sweep reached the reader looking complete. Fetchers now return `Fetched`, carrying the records and any note about what they could not reach, and `gather` folds those notes into the failures the header renders. The total-failure check counts failed sources separately, since `failures` is no longer only failures. Two non-transport errors also bypassed the partial-page handling and discarded the pages already fetched: OpenAlex answering with something other than a results block — which is how the free tier rejects a filter — and a truncated arXiv feed, which raises at parse rather than at fetch. Both are now handled where a timeout is. Not done: pinning actions/checkout to a commit SHA. It is sound practice, but all four workflows tag-pin all four of their actions, and pinning one reference in one file buys nothing while making the set inconsistent. Worth doing across the repository as its own change. Also drops the principle count from the roadmap's consolidation item, which the phase protocol's new principle had made stale. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Sweeps for new work bearing on this project once a week and opens a digest issue. Closes the "Setup weekly alerts on new relevant research" item.
Why this shape
The problem is precision, not retrieval. A keyword alert for "C. elegans" returns mostly molecular biology; one for "plasticity" returns mostly deep learning. So it sources narrowly and then reads what it finds against a written brief.
Three sources in descending order of precision:
q-bio.NC,cs.NE.Claude Haiku scores every candidate 0–3 against
context.md; Claude Opus writes two or three sentences per survivor — what it found, and what it would change here. Roughly 600–900 records a week reduce to a handful, at single-digit cents. Actions minutes are free on a public repo.The brief is what makes the scores mean anything. It names the open questions, so relevance is judged against the work actually in front of the project rather than a fixed keyword list. It and the seed list are hand-maintained on purpose, and their upkeep is now principle 13 of the phase protocol — a stale seed set is how a watch like this quietly stops finding anything, and nothing in the machinery can notice that happening.
Design notes
--candidates-out/--candidates-incache the slow fetch so scoring can be repeated — which is how thenematode-literature-watchskill checks whether a brief edit actually moved anything.Verification
Sourcing verified live against all three APIs. The citation-chaining channel returned, among 14 hits: "What an atlas-fitted connectome can and cannot do: evolutionary search over interneuron stimulation in a whole-body C. elegans model", "Instructive signals drive learning through behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity", "Synchronization properties in C. elegans".
The live run also caught a real bug —
mainpassed the wrong slice of the config toload_brief, which would have failed on the first scheduled run. There is now amain-level test for it.37 tests;
pre-commit run -agreen (.test_durationsregenerated). The Messages API calls are type-checked against the real SDK types, verified with a deliberate bad kwarg.Not verified: runtime behaviour of the two model calls — no API key was available locally. The request shapes check out; whether Haiku honours the JSON schema in practice does not, until the first real run.
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Add an
ANTHROPIC_API_KEYrepository secret. OptionallyOPENALEX_MAILTO(faster request pool; kept out ofseeds.tomlbecause this repo is public). Then dispatch the workflow withdry_run: trueto see candidates without spending anything.One open judgement call: bioRxiv's
systems biologyandanimal behavior and cognitioncollections are noisy. Triage is cheap enough to over-source, but trimming is a one-line change if the first digests show nothing coming from there.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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