Research → Synthesis
what is most prominent food crop in this region?
Insufficient evidence·fair·$0.60 USD
A · Answer
what is most prominent food crop in this region?
Insufficient corpus evidence to produce a grounded brief on this topic.
B · Evidence
No sources — the corpus could not support this goal.
Usefulness
0.58
fair- goalAlignment0.72· 25%
- nonFiller0.92· 25%
- specificity0.38· 20%
- structure0.55· 15%
- grounding0.12· 15%
Flags: insufficient_evidence, thin_sources.
Explicit insufficient-evidence result for an uncovered topic. Scored as an honest non-filler refusal, not as a grounded brief.
C · Accountability
Each step names agentId@version and the role-scoped trust move. Boards: Reputation v1.
research
agent:research.literature.v1@1.1.0
0.67→0.68
n=46
synthesize
agent:research.synthesis.v1@1.0.0
0.77→0.77
n=57
D · Economics
Quote only — no settlement. Reputation v1 is a frozen read-only input. Contract.
0.60 USDecon-v0
base 1.00
- Insufficient evidence — reduced fee-0.40
Reward weights
- agent:research.literature.v1@1.1.0research0.352rep 0.68 n=46 · modifier on
- agent:research.synthesis.v1@1.0.0synthesize0.648rep 0.77 n=57 · modifier on
Reputation v1 — frozen. readOnly true. modifier applied.
This is a first-class outcome, not a failed run. The corpus could not support a grounded brief, so synthesis refused instead of inventing one.
Advanced details
Ranking-test proof, retrieval diagnostics, step machine, claims, and raw audit. Not required to read the brief, agents, or quote.
- researchsuccess
- synthesizesuccess
Claims
No claims — the corpus had no strong topical match.
Agents
research
agent:research.literature.v1@1.1.0
synthesize
agent:research.synthesis.v1@1.0.0
Retrieval path
Diagnostics
First drop: 2 · not in candidates · corpus tenant:horticulturist
- 1Corpus
- 2Candidates
- 3Selected
- 4Synthesis
Provenance corpus membership · 5/5 found
- doc:audit-event-modelfound
- doc:agent-version-provenancefound
- doc:source-lineagefound
- doc:result-claim-provenancefound
- doc:platform-provenance-capabilitiesfound
Query
what is most prominent food crop in this region?
Top candidates · 4
- doc:tenant:horticulturist:C111
region · strong · selected
- doc:tenant:horticulturist:C611
most · strong
- doc:tenant:horticulturist:C148
region · strong
- doc:tenant:horticulturist:C103
region · strong
Selected
doc:tenant:horticulturist:C1
- CHAIN_SUBMITTED00:46:33Z
Research → synthesis: what is most prominent food crop in this region?
- WORKFLOW_SUBMITTED00:46:33Z
Research → synthesis: what is most prominent food crop in this region?
- CHAIN_STEP_STARTED00:46:33Z
Step research
- CHAIN_STEP_DONEagent:research.literature.v1@1.1.000:46:33Z
Step research success via agent:research.literature.v1@1.1.0
- RETRIEVAL_DEBUGGEDagent:research.literature.v1@1.1.000:46:33Z
Retrieval hits · 1 selected
- CHAIN_STEP_STARTED00:46:33Z
Step synthesize
- CHAIN_STEP_DONEagent:research.synthesis.v1@1.0.000:46:33Z
Step synthesize success via agent:research.synthesis.v1@1.0.0
- CHAIN_DONE00:46:33Z
Chain success
- WORKFLOW_DONEfinalagent:research.synthesis.v1@1.0.000:46:33Z
Research → synthesis success
- USEFULNESS_SCOREDagent:research.synthesis.v1@1.0.000:46:33Z
Usefulness fair (0.58)
- TRUST_UPDATEDagent:research.literature.v1@1.1.000:46:33Z
Trust research agent:research.literature.v1@1.1.0 0.67 → 0.68
- TRUST_UPDATEDagent:research.synthesis.v1@1.0.000:46:33Z
Trust synthesize agent:research.synthesis.v1@1.0.0 0.77 → 0.77
- economic_quotedagent:research.synthesis.v1@1.0.000:46:33Z
Economic 0.60 USD
Canonical result
kind research.synthesis — brief, sources, evidenceStatus, trust, quote.
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},
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