SciDEX has 864 debate sessions containing structured multi-agent scientific argumentation that has never been mined as a source of NEW hypothesis candidates. Debate sessions contain richer material than single-LLM generation: specific mechanistic claims with agent-assigned confidence, counter-arguments revealing alternative hypotheses, and emerging consensus points.
Mining 864 debates for hypothesis candidates could produce 100-500 novel high-quality hypotheses grounded in multi-agent scientific debate.
What to do (batches of 20 unprocessed debate sessions):
1. Extract candidate claims: from debate_rounds content, identify causal claims with >=2 agents agreeing (consensus signal), surprising claims where skeptic conceded to theorist (novelty signal), claims with specific molecular mechanisms
2. Deduplicate against existing hypotheses: fuzzy similarity check against hypotheses.title + description; skip if > 0.85 similarity
3. Generate hypothesis: structured title/description with source_debate_ids; novelty_score = 0.6; lifecycle = 'proposed'; composite_score = 0
4. Insert to hypotheses using existing DB write patterns
5. Track provenance: record which debates produced which hypotheses
Do NOT: generate hypotheses without grounding in specific debate content; insert duplicates; set high composite_scores without debate evidence
Read first: docs/planning/specs/agora_debate_to_hypothesis_synthesis_spec.md, debate_sessions/debate_rounds schema
Success per iteration: >= 10 novel hypotheses inserted after dedup. Total: >= 100 debate-derived hypotheses.
Completion Notes
Released by supervisor slot 14 because credential acquisition failed after pre-claim. Reason: worktree_creation_failed:branch_held_by_other:held_by=/tmp/wt-4ba968e0
[Agora] Improve debate miner title extraction; mine 17 non-completed sessions → 20 new hypotheses [task:4ba968e0-91ab-42dc-8aaf-897e5c13d986]2026-04-28
[Agora] Update spec work log iteration 4: status filter fix, Format C, 388 hypotheses [task:4ba968e0-91ab-42dc-8aaf-897e5c13d986]2026-04-28
[Agora] Add tests for Format C narrative extraction and synthesizer fallback [task:4ba968e0-91ab-42dc-8aaf-897e5c13d986]2026-04-28
[Agora] Debate miner: fix status filter for non-completed sessions, add Format C narrative extraction [task:4ba968e0-91ab-42dc-8aaf-897e5c13d986]2026-04-28