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Smithers v1.0.0 — Autonomous AI Research Agent

The first public release of Smithers, an autonomous AI research system powered by Claude Code.

5-Phase Research Methodology: SCOPE → DISCOVER → DEEP_READ → VALIDATE → SYNTHESIZE
Evidence Tracking: Full source management, claim extraction, and validation pipeline
Contrarian Enforcement: Every finding challenged with counter-evidence before acceptance
Credibility Scoring: Source quality assessment (0.0–1.0) with type weights, recency decay, and author credentials
Circuit Breaker: Nygard-pattern stagnation detection prevents infinite loops
Memory Stream: Generative Agents architecture (Park et al. 2023) for cross-session memory
351 tests passing with comprehensive BATS test suite

git clone https://github.com/dapdevsoftware/smithers.git
cd smithers
./install.sh
smithers-setup my-research
cd my-research
smithers --monitor