autonomous-researchlisted

# Autonomous Research Turns one topic line into a finished paper with a real literature base. Ported from OpenDraft (github.com/federicodeponte/opendraft, MIT), which runs this as a hosted engine. Here the engine is you: eighteen stages, each one a prompt in `agents/`, plus five scripts that do the parts a language model must not do by hand. **You are the model.** No key, no service, no account. The only network calls are Crossref, OpenAlex and DataCite, all open endpoints. ## The one command ``` Write a paper on <topic> ``` Everything below follows from that. Do not ask the user to run the stages themselves; run them. ## Ask four things first Before stage 5, if the user has not already said, ask for: 1. **Target venue**, or "none, general academic". 2. **Total word limit.** 3. **Citation style**, one of the six in `references/citation-styles.md`. 4. **Document type**, one of the types in `references/paper-types.md`. These are four questions in one message, not an interview, and they are the only questions the pipeline asks. Everything else it decides. Ask because the cost of guessing lands at the end and cannot be paid there. A venue with a hard 150-word abstract cap is enforced at stage 6 or nowhere: by the time stage 17 writes the abstract, the word budget every section was drafted against is already wrong. A citation style chosen at the gate rather than at stage 6 means the whole draft was written against the wrong marker density. If the user declines to answe