Field Reports
Measured work. Each one states its sample, its window and its source up front, and carries the objections that could still overturn it inside the piece rather than outside it.
The orchestrator was supposed to be the expensive part
The cheapest path to a team of agents runs through the parts nobody is selling: a small trained supervisor instead of a frontier one, hosted open models before any hardware, a mechanical verification gate before any self-improvement loop, and the decision engine kept on the request path. 22 claims worked against a 290,240-paper corpus and a purpose-built social corpus — adversarially re-analyzed twice, with the second red team's kills published inside.
The decision layer
Keep a decision layer under any AI deployed, rent it rather than build it, and make the auditable decision record non-negotiable — 14 findings, each graded, three earlier findings removed by adversarial re-analysis.