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Aug 2026
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Autonomous Research: A Survey of Scientific Agents.
This survey bridges the existing gap by presenting a comprehensive blueprint for scientific agents' design and introduces a unified taxonomy based on capability envelope and capability maturity, characterizing both the scope of scientific workflow coverage and the reliability of agent behavior under realistic research conditions.
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