Evidence guide

Keep the path from source to result intact.

ApolloBot treats papers, figures, datasets, code, environments, and decision logs as connected evidence rather than unrelated downloads.

Artifacts and provenance4 chapters
01

Source manifests

A manifest records what entered the investigation and under what rights. Public literature, licensed databases, private repositories, and uploaded data remain distinguishable throughout synthesis and export.

  • Stable source identity
  • Access and redistribution class
  • Content hash when bytes are retained
  • Admission decision and investigation scope
02

Verified artifact storage

Artifacts are uploaded through a lease-scoped service credential, capped per request, hashed before storage, and placed under tenant- and investigation-specific object keys. Metadata is trusted only after the stored object size and hash agree.

  1. 01Generate inside the isolated executor
  2. 02Hash and upload under the active lease
  3. 03Verify object metadata
  4. 04Commit the ready artifact record
  5. 05Expose retrieval only to authorized organization members
03

A connected review package

The review package should let another qualified person follow the work without reconstructing hidden context.

  • Methods and protocol revisions
  • Results, figures, and source data
  • Supporting and conflicting evidence
  • Code, dependencies, seeds, and environment receipts
  • Decision log and known limitations
  • Replication instructions and expected outputs
04

Publication is a new boundary

Finishing a private investigation does not make it public. Publication creates an explicit intent tied to an exact artifact-set hash, destination, and named approver.

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Private by default

A public paper may include approved findings and reproducible methods while excluding private repositories, licensed source material, and confidential intermediate work.

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