Architecture
Component Roles
| Component | Role |
|---|---|
| Research Director | Conducts the full 10-phase pipeline. Delegates work to subagents. Never writes directly. |
| Literature Scout | Searches 500+ papers from arXiv, Semantic Scholar, CrossRef, OpenAlex in parallel. |
| Gap Analyzer | Identifies genuine research gaps from the literature corpus. |
| 6 Novelty Engines | Generate hypotheses from 6 different cognitive frames. |
| Methodology Designer | Recommends correct statistical tests, runs power analysis. |
| Data Engineer | Writes analysis code, generates publication-ready figures. |
| 5 Writers | Write paper sections in parallel under 41 Humanizer constraints. |
| Verifier | 3-module check: citations, statistics, AI-pattern detection. |
| 10 Reviewers | Adversarial review from 10 distinct personas. |
| Style Auditor | Final certification: zero AI-isms, zero em dashes. |
| Formatter | LaTeX compilation, BibTeX generation, PDF output. |
Pipeline Diagram
┌──────────────────────────────┐
│ Research Director │
│ (orchestrator) │
└────────┬─────────────────────┘
│
┌────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┐
▼ ▼ ▼
┌───────────┐ ┌────────────────┐ ┌──────────────────────┐
│ Literature│ │ 6 Novelty │ │ Gap Analyzer │
│ Scout ×5 │ │ Engines │ │ + Methodology │
└───────────┘ └────────────────┘ └──────────────────────┘
│
┌────────────────────┼─────────────────────────┐
▼ ▼ ▼
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Parallel Writing Swarm (5 agents + 41 Humanizer patterns) │
└──────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┘
│
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Verifier: Citations × Statistics × AI-Pattern Detection │
└──────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┘
│
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Adversarial Review: 10 reviewer personas (parallel) │
└──────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┘
│
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Style Auditor: Humanizer certification, em dash zero check │
└──────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┘
│
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Formatter: LaTeX template, BibTeX, figures, PDF │
└──────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────────┘
▼
┌──────────┐
│ Paper │
│ PDF │
└──────────┘
File Layout
sisyphus-academica/
├── orchestrator/ # Research Director agent
├── subagents/ # 8 core pipeline agents
├── novelty-engines/ # 6 novelty generation agents
├── reviewers/ # 10 adversarial reviewer personas
├── skills/ # Standalone portable skill files
├── tools/ # Python CLI toolchain
├── templates/ # LaTeX venue templates
├── config/ # Agent configuration
├── data/ # Research memory + voice profiles
├── out/ # Generated papers and figures
├── tests/ # Python tool tests
├── examples/ # Pipeline output examples
└── docs/ # Documentation site
Agent Communication
Agents communicate through files on disk. The Research Director writes a task specification, the subagent reads it, performs its work, and writes results. No shared state. Each agent file is self-contained with all instructions, output format, and constraints.
Provider Agnostic
Works with any OpenAI-compatible or Anthropic API. Edit config/agent-config.json to switch models:
{
"agents": {
"research-director": {
"model": "anthropic/claude-opus-4",
"fallback_models": [{"model": "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4"}]
}
}
}