Pipeline status
Hand-curated snapshot of running / queued / blocked / recently completed / coming soon across the Vela research program.
title: "Research Pipeline — Status" description: "What's running, queued, blocked, and recently completed across the Vela research program." status: v1 publishedAt: 2026-04-29 authors: ["Mike West"]
v1 — hand-curated snapshot as of 2026-04-29. Distinct from
RESEARCH-PROGRAM.md, which is the design plan. This is the page-of-record for what is happening now. Auto-generation is queued (ASN-980); the hand-curated cadence is per session-of-record until then.
Running
In flight this week. Each item has an active commit log under git log -- docs/research/ or in the assignment queue.
| Item | Surface | Last touched | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
Bulk Vela source ingest (ingest:dual + audit) | docs/research/ingest-batches/2026-04-29-vela-batch-1-run.md | 2026-04-29, 117/274 chunks (1 chunk-level error) | ASN-665 |
| Multi-faceted extraction (Path B, default tier) | lib/factory/multi-faceted-pipeline.ts, docs/research/multi-faceted-vs-dual-grade.md | 2026-04-29, bundled-extraction refactor shipped | ASN-689 |
| Boudoir Studios Program — discovery + crawl | docs/research/boudoir-studios-program/, docs/research/2026-04-28-boudoir-... | 2026-04-29, retry-counter cap landed; corpus draining | ASN-668..670, ASN-952 |
| Emotion-corpus expansion | docs/research/emotion-corpus-expansion-2026-04.md | 2026-04-28, museum-discovery CLI shipped; sourcing log open | ASN-930 |
| Cross-source citation graph | factory_documents.bibtex_keys planning; docs/VISION-ATLAS.md Layer-D | 2026-04-29, mapping table strategy queued | ASN-948, ASN-976 |
Queued
Designed, scoped, or specified — not yet started. Filed in docs/AGENT-ASSIGNMENTS.md.
- Methodology peer-review tier — academic-grade companion to this v1 surface methodology. Not yet filed; flagged in the 2026-04-29 research-surface handoff as future work after a second thread reaches the depth bar.
- Christianity-sex-shame audience-tier reviews (×3) — peer-review, engineering, product framings of the literature-review + research notes. ASN-955.
- Research surface — outside-reader Overview — one-pager distinct from
RESEARCH-PROGRAM.md. ASN-957. - Museum diversity-of-beauty — questions doc — bootstrap of the thread; three sub-questions framed; downstream analysis ASN follows. ASN-958.
- Museum diversity sub-question (a) — actual analysis — cross-museum corpus diversity; preregistration commits before analysis runs. ASN-981.
- Pipeline auto-generation — script reads from
AGENT-ASSIGNMENTS.md+git log+instrument-validation/and regenerates this page. ASN-980. - Theological-coherence intervention — RCT protocol frozen at
docs/research/protocols/theological-coherence-intervention-v0.1.md; recruitment + IRB pending. - RQ-program proposed studies — twelve research questions enumerated in
docs/RESEARCH-PROGRAM.md; per-study designs queued atdocs/research/proposed-studies.md.
Blocked
Each blocker is named, with the assignment that would unblock it.
- Adaptive engine — corpus thin on ratings. Most active units carry zero human responses; the 2026-04-24 instrument-validation snapshot reports 1,263 of 1,325 active units at the 0.25 neutral-prior floor (95.3%). Unblocks via: ASN-567 (decomposition-seeding for zero-response units) plus ASN-576..581 (participant recruitment).
- Test-retest stability not reportable.
user_desire_profilesstores only the latest version; no historical snapshots exist. Unblocks via: ASN-572 (user_desire_profile_versionstable — deferred). experience_unit_relationsgraph empty. R8 redundancy-penalty design exists at code level but the cross-unit relation table has no rows. Unblocks via: ASN-08 / R8 (relation-graph build pass).- Boundary-rule schema mismatch. Live
user_boundary_rulesusestag_value; the R1 spec definesrule_value+source_unit_id+strength. Forward migration needed. Unblocks via: ASN-12. - Cross-thread peer-review framing premature. The cross-thread
audience-tiersslots in the portfolio manifest stay forthcoming until at least a second thread (text-aesthetic? Boudoir Studios?) reaches christianity-sex-shame depth.
Recently completed
Last ~30 days. Each line resolves to a git log entry under docs/research/** or to a research-tagged ASN.
- 2026-04-29 — Research-surface alignment: methodology doc + this pipeline page committed; ASN-954/956 land; ASN-980/981 follow-ups filed (commits
c2183b7c4, this commit;a05ed50be). - 2026-04-29 — Path-B refactor: bundled-extraction with chapter caching shipped; entities + factor_model + narrative bundles validated against
multi-faceted-vs-dual-gradeprobe data (ASN-689; commitd6ca4c3bc). - 2026-04-28 — Factory ingest smoke test on Maslow source proves pipeline; surfaces three issues into ASN-664/665.
- 2026-04-28 — Extraction-quality report and PDF-extraction audit committed (ASN-946;
f1bcc1616). - 2026-04-28 — Acquisition list 2026-04-23 committed; emotion-corpus expansion runbook + museum-discovery CLI shipped (ASN-930;
be747e50a). - 2026-04-27 — Turbopuffer parity report committed; ASN-665 mid-bulk spot-check (3/3) confirms chunker holds under load (
144331350). - 2026-04-26..29 — Boudoir Studios discovery framework: Phase 1A (framework), Phase 1B-A (Google Places, 4,530 included rows), Phase 1B-B (Yelp, 9,336 studios, 289/290 calls), Phase 1C (cross-source dedup → reclassification → final inventory state) — ASN-669; multi-day commit thread.
- 2026-04-24 — Instrument-validation snapshot v0.2 written; engine v1 → v2 cutover; per-unit
score_computedrows and run-scorer instrumentation landed (docs/research/instrument-validation/2026-04-24.json). - 2026-04-24 — Downstream research strategy doc committed (
docs/research/downstream-strategy-2026-04-24.md). - 2026-04-23 — Christianity-sex-shame thread depth: public introduction, Augustine across his works, christianity reinterpretation pattern, christianity sex hangup, formal literature review, BibTeX, literature map (multi-day commit thread on
docs/research/papers/christianity-*anddocs/research/christianity-*). - 2026-04-23 — Boudoir Studios Program proposal + literature review + paper outlines + methodology committed (
8633396eb). - 2026-04-22 — Magazine arc, corpus expansion, Mosaic pilot, intervention protocol committed (ASN-599..602;
de7d31793). - 2026-04-21 — Text-aesthetic thread: literature map + literature review + public introduction + AESTHEMOS amendment (ASN-594;
984753263). - 2026-04-20 — Thesis-readiness report — density-meter run on all 24 major theses (
b510185a3).
Coming soon
Next 1–2 weeks, in priority order.
- Manifest live for methodology + pipeline on peopleanalyst.com/research/vela (this commit + manifest update at
peopleanalyst-site). - ASN-957 Overview + ASN-958 Museum-diversity bootstrap — both slated for the next session pass; both small.
- ASN-955 Christianity-sex-shame three reviews — substantive critical writing; its own session.
- ASN-665 bulk Vela ingest completion — currently 117/274; full coverage feeds retrieval.
- Recruitment push — the binding constraint on instrument validation, adaptive engine maturation, and any preregistered analysis.