Talaria Scientific

Talaria, the research harness

For computational scientists whose week goes to validation instead of science.

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Ideas are what moves science forward, but validation is expensive and slow: data wrangling, sysadmin, re-implementing baselines, manual checking. Talaria is a multi-agent, multi-foundation-model harness that runs that machinery. You direct it; it handles the coding, the environments, the cluster runs, and the record keeping, with the scientist in the loop and HPC as the guardrail. A mech suit for the researcher, not an auto-scientist that replaces you.

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The Talaria architecture: the five-stage loop over the system of record THE TALARIA ARCHITECTURE THE RESEARCH LOOP findings seed the next idea /idea /plan /implement /run /synthesize /interview /lit-search no registrable contract contract defect: successor plan code bug, via triage evidence gap: follow-on sweep analysis finds a code defect capture is cheap (no gate) contract frozen stamp: panel-reviewed code dispatch battery (5 gates) /review-panel panel · your call SYSTEM OF RECORD markdown + JSONL in a git repository · no database, no server · the part you keep references concepts hypotheses results findings what you read what you use what you asked, frozen what ran, immutable what you now believe grounds event journal (append-only) + rules file two kinds of connections: typed edges in the graph (derives from · grounds · cites) · actions as journal events; mechanical work auto-fires capped, scientific writes only propose RECORD INSPECTION · answer a reader /status /repro /draft /explain EXTRA RIGOR · curate the knowledge layer /lit-review /concept-search /concept-create MAINTENANCE · keep the machine honest /validate-graph /lint /close-out META USAGE · the harness itself /init /feedback = loop stage (the five actions) = the record = supporting action = record artifact = gate (names what it refuses) = /review-panel rides this deposit = earned belief (findings) = kickback / return (label names the trigger)
Figure 1.The Talaria architecture. The five-stage Research Loop runs on top of the System of Record; below, the rigor skills augment that process and can extend the record, the inspection skills give you a view into the record at various levels, and the maintenance skills ensure the record is always clean. Capture is cheap, every claim-hardening write passes a gate that checks it against the record's rules, so every hardened claim stays traceable and inspectable, and the adversarial panel rides the gates as claims harden; a failed stage kicks back to a previous part of the loop. The record compounds over time as the process unfolds.

How you would use it

A session is a loop. You bring an idea; the harness hardens it into a pre-registered plan, builds and reviews the code, runs it on your compute, and proposes findings grounded in the results. Each stage is a skill you can read and edit.

  1. /idea captures the thought with its provenance. Capture is cheap; nothing is gated here.
  2. /plan freezes it into a pre-registered hypothesis: configurations, seeds, metrics, and what it takes to validate or refute it.
  3. /implement builds and reviews the experiment code.
  4. /run dispatches the work to your compute: a university cluster, a national-lab allocation, a cloud, or your laptop, one config block apart.
  5. /synthesize proposes findings from the results. A panel of isolated reviewers attacks them before they register, and the findings seed the next idea.
Who owns what: the field harness, your instance, and the published literature WHO OWNS WHAT PUBLIC · you download it; Talaria maintains it PRIVATE · you maintain it; yours, forever PUBLIC · the commons THE FIELD HARNESS Talaria core the field pack the skills the docs seed concepts + references a worked example record the loop, the gates, the record machinery the field's baselines, metrics, solvers instruction sets, /idea to /feedback for you and the agent you send yours at clone, then it grows one complete cycle to read first upgrades flow under you YOUR INSTANCE your record your experiment code your profile + configs your draft papers graph + journal + concept graph what /implement builds and stamps preferences, budgets, backends written from the record; statuses the record is the part that compounds /feedback: a report you package and send you publish PUBLISHED LITERATURE published papers published methods the field's, and yours anyone's to build on we pull published methods into the harness, yours included, like any other = the field harness (public; Talaria maintains it) = your instance (private; the record accent) = the published literature (public; the commons) = a boundary (everything that crosses it is drawn) = what lives there
Figure 2.Who owns what. The harness you download (the core, a field's packs, the skills, the docs) is open and we maintain it; your instance (the record and your experiment code) is private and yours; the published literature is the commons.

What you get

Who it is for

What stays yours

How to get it

Read:The architecture of the Talaria research harnessA system of record for computational scienceWhy I'm building Talaria Scientific

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