Persistent Research Agents Need an Evidence Ledger, Not Just Summaries

A research evidence ledger helps agents preserve sources, supported claims, conflicts, and unresolved questions without allowing an evolving summary to turn unverified inferences into established findings. It should assign stable source identities, record versions, retrieval and publication details, access permissions, and precise passage locators, while distinguishing access to original material from stored summaries that may reveal restricted information. Claims should retain statuses such as proposed, supported, contradicted, or unresolved, with both supporting and opposing references preserved rather than replaced by the most recent source. Effective handoffs document inspected sources, unfinished questions, and completed actions accurately, while retaining exact figures and citations when needed for verification. Sources should be revisited when claims are time-sensitive or documents change, and the system should be tested against conflicting evidence, revised materials, permission changes, and unresolved work across sessions.

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