{
  "title": "Check an experiment before you keep its result",
  "caption": "This constructed experiment includes protocol and result checks before candidate retention. Revision is permitted after a failed check if budget is available. Budget exhaustion stops the trace. The checks can pass, but that alone cannot prove a scientific claim. Author-created explanatory diagram. Playback time is not experiment duration.",
  "alt": "Constructed research flow: protocol and result checks occur before candidate retention. Revision uses the available budget, or the trace stops.",
  "sources": [
    {
      "file": "content/blog/2026-04-06_The-Age-of-Auto-Research-and-Other-Certainties/post.md",
      "description": "Question, execution, validation, budget and evidence boundaries from the current article; this illustrative workflow is not attributed to any one reviewed system."
    },
    {
      "file": "/Users/jiwenbo/Documents/GitHub/Blog_Illustration_Skill/examples/animated-flow-2026-10-16/03-validation-feedback/diagram.svg",
      "description": "Skill feedback layout adapted to English research-workflow semantics."
    }
  ],
  "limitations": [
    "These are constructed symbolic states and outcomes. They are not experimental measurements.",
    "The diagram shows no policy update or guaranteed research improvement.",
    "A pass of the selected protocol checks does not establish scientific truth or independent replication.",
    "Playback timing is for explanation, not measured runtime."
  ]
}