Definition
Plain language
A draft document where every claim has a tag pointing to the source it came from.
As stated in the literature
ScientistOne's intermediate artifact: a markdown document with inline evidence pointers on every factual claim, generated before any prose is rendered and validated by Ground-Critic-Resolve.
Why it matters: Building evidence into the document's skeleton before any prose is written makes it much harder for an AI writer to slip in unsupported claims later.
For example, instead of writing prose first, the agent produces a structured markdown draft where each sentence ends with a citation pointing to the document it came from.
Heard on the show
“… Before it writes a single sentence of LaTeX, it produces what the authors call a research representation — a markdown document where every single factual claim is tagged inline with an evidence …”Episode 089 — When AI-Written Papers Read Well But the Evidence Underneath Is Broken