The task
How could an agent enrich a presentation transcript with credible context about its speakers, topics, venue, and related talks from a predefined set of sources?
Projected solution
I propose an allowlisted research agent that plans its next lookup from the evidence it finds, resolves ambiguous identities, and produces a source-linked contextual dossier.
The proposed workflow starts with transcript anchors and an explicit source registry. A bounded planner chooses lookups, tracks unresolved questions, and cross-checks claims. A fixed-workflow baseline and held-out transcripts would test whether adaptive planning improves useful coverage within the same budget.
Proposed workflow
Proposed: source registry · agent planner · evidence ledger- 01
Anchor
Identify transcript claims, people, and topics with precise transcript locations.
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Investigate
Choose permitted resources dynamically and record the basis for each lookup.
- 03
Verify
Cross-reference claims and assemble a dossier with source and transcript citations.
Implementation roadmap
Proposed milestones / Not started- Define and freeze. Specify the task, data rights, baselines, evaluation criteria, and reserved test material.
- Build the smallest end-to-end study. Implement the proposed workflow with traceable inputs and reproducible outputs.
- Compare and stress-test. Run controlled baseline comparisons and ablations; inspect failure modes and resource use.
- Reproduce and report. Repeat the study from a clean environment and publish measured findings with supporting artifacts.
The research proposal expands these milestones into project-specific methods, experimental controls, and deliverables.
Methods / evidence / reproduction
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The proposed evaluation compares adaptive retrieval with fixed retrieval under matched request and time budgets. Coverage, citation support, identity errors, and reproducibility would be measured on held-out presentations.
The proposal develops the research question, proposed method, evaluation design, and phased roadmap. Its GitHub directory contains the planning documents. No implementation or experimental results are claimed.