Research Factory: Preview, Confirm, and Inspect
Research Factory adds exact wake previews, explicit confirmation, bound receipts, recurring controls, and direct WorkProduct inspection.
What shipped
Research Factory runs bounded asynchronous experiments under an explicit objective, workspace, cadence, budget, active-work cap, evaluator, and stopping policy. The dashboard, Python SDK, and MCP expose the same preview → confirmation → receipt → outputs loop.
- Manual wakes preview exactly one due experiment before execution.
- Confirmation replays the preview’s resolved request and returns a bound receipt.
- The dashboard exposes continuous (15-minute minimum), hourly, daily, and weekly cadence, plus budget and active-work caps.
- Factory status centers experiments, comparisons, artifacts, visuals, reports, WorkProducts, and candidate improvements.
- Operators can pause future wakes and open produced WorkProducts directly.
Start
uv add "synth-ai[research]==0.15.2"Follow the Research Factory guide,
use the hosted Managed Research MCP tools, or open /smr/factories in the
dashboard.
The hero Craftax example is [EVIDENCE:CRAFTAX_RUN]; its WorkProduct is
[EVIDENCE:WORKPRODUCT].
Constraints
Research Factory does not guarantee improvement or unrestricted access. Pausing future wakes does not cancel an active run. “24/7” describes scheduled asynchronous operation; long-horizon durability claims wait for their explicit 24-hour, 72-hour, 12-cycle, and 30-day receipts.
- Launch candidate:
[EVIDENCE:CORE_CANDIDATE] - SDK/MCP journey:
[EVIDENCE:SDK_MCP_JOURNEY] - Dashboard journey:
[EVIDENCE:DASHBOARD_JOURNEY] - Production smoke:
[EVIDENCE:PRODUCTION_SMOKE]