paper-three-pass-extraction

Three-pass methodology for extracting structured notes from a single academic paper. Each pass escalates from cheap-and-shallow to expensive-and-deep; downstream agents trigger Pass 2 only for relevant papers and Pass 3 only on explicit operator request.

The central principle: every question in this methodology is answered by the agent reading the paper, against the paper's content. Never ask the operator the questions. Never have a Socratic dialogue. The questions are an internal extraction checklist whose purpose is to produce structured output — not user-facing prompts.

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