Metabolism

Continuous Knowledge Metabolism - Summary

This workflow automates a daily research paper ingestion and synthesis cycle. Here's the operational flow:

Core Process

Setup Check: Requires initialized metabolism/config.json with currentDay >= 1.

Five-stage cycle:

1. Search — 5-day sliding window queries via arXiv and OpenAlex, deduplicating against processed_ids
2. Read — Extract methodology, conclusions, and knowledge connections from new papers
3. Update — Integrate findings into metabolism/knowledge/ files (max 200 lines per topic, with compression of older content when needed)
4. Hypothesize — Generate new research hypotheses only when patterns genuinely emerge; skip if no insights warrant it
5. Log — Record daily metrics and increment currentDay

Key Constraints

• "不捏造论文中未出现的事实性声明" (don't fabricate claims absent from source papers)
• Preserve citations and evidence trails during knowledge compression
• Never force hypothesis generation
• Always read current file state before modifications

The system emphasizes incremental, honest knowledge building over raw output volume.