Generate Theories

Uses the Theorizer agent (hosted on Cloud Run, accessed via asta-gateway) to search papers, extract evidence, form theories, and score their novelty. Auth is asta auth login.

Step 1 — Draft a tightened query

Before asking the user anything, analyze their request and the surrounding context (current project, conversation history, files they've been working on) to produce a tightened theory query that:

• Has a specific phenomenon and domain
• Is phrased as a scientific question
• Reflects what the user is actually trying to understand

Examples:

• User says "generate theories for my project" → inspect the project, infer the research focus, produce a concrete query like "How do induction heads emerge during training in decoder-only transformers?"
• User says "theories about attention" → tighten to "What mechanisms drive attention head specialization during pretraining?"
• User gives a well-formed scientific question → echo it verbatim

Step 2 — Confirm with one chat question