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{
  "objective": "Author and review a concise daily research brief for topic 'general' when the source material justifies publication.",
  "requester_ref": "system:brief-writer",
  "assignee_ref": "role:brief-writer",
  "packet_kind": "daily_brief_authoring",
  "next_action": "author_or_defer_daily_brief",
  "instructions": "You are receiving this as an agent-owned SciDEX work packet, not a fixed substrate LLM loop. Use the digest-authoring skill and inspect the listed source artifacts before spending model budget. Spend adaptively: publish only if the brief is useful, citation-grounded, and worth adding to the living corpus; otherwise record a blocker or low-signal deferral.\n\nTopic: general\nLookback: last 24h\nTarget length: 200-400 words.\nRequired sections if published: TL;DR, What's New, Open Questions, What to Read Next. Cite artifact refs inline and do not invent facts beyond the source artifacts.\n\nSource artifacts (3):\n- knowledge_gap:aee4594b-3778-45f2-8b3a-53b632c9d706: Sun 2023 microglia taxonomy reference unconfirmed after exhaustive search\n- paper:b2b57f9d-c473-4d07-874a-3221a4e19659: PMC11338834\n- paper:23b18477-6cfe-4852-b9be-3ee0ecf0eadb: PMC10601493",
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    "paper:b2b57f9d-c473-4d07-874a-3221a4e19659",
    "paper:23b18477-6cfe-4852-b9be-3ee0ecf0eadb"
  ],
  "context_refs": {
    "topic": "general",
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      "knowledge_gap:aee4594b-3778-45f2-8b3a-53b632c9d706",
      "paper:b2b57f9d-c473-4d07-874a-3221a4e19659",
      "paper:23b18477-6cfe-4852-b9be-3ee0ecf0eadb"
    ]
  },
  "acceptance_criteria": [
    "Inspect the source artifacts before authoring prose.",
    "Spend compute adaptively based on expected reader value.",
    "Publish at most one daily_brief wiki_page for this topic/date.",
    "Ground every substantive claim in source artifacts.",
    "Record blockers or low-signal deferrals explicitly."
  ],
  "deliverable_refs": [],
  "priority": "normal",
  "state": "requested",
  "roles": [
    "brief_writer",
    "scientific_reviewer"
  ],
  "role_aliases": [],
  "source_policy": "scheduled_worker:brief_writer_daily",
  "source_run_id": "sw-briefwriterd-e77eb3e3c18e",
  "source_packet_id": "brief_writer_daily:2026-05-29:general",
  "signals": {
    "topic_delta": 3,
    "max_tokens_hint": 1500,
    "budget_reserved_usd": 1.5,
    "source_artifact_count": 3
  },
  "metadata": {
    "date": "2026-05-29",
    "topic": "general",
    "worker_name": "brief_writer_daily",
    "dispatch_mode": "agent_work_packet",
    "runtime_owner": "scidex-agents",
    "requested_budget": {
      "usd": 1.5
    },
    "budget_accounting": "scheduled_worker budget_usd_used records reserved agent-runtime budget for queued work, not direct substrate LLM spend"
  }
}