Digest Paper

Digest one paper end-to-end into sota/papers/<citekey>/. This is the atomic unit of SOTA work: it either completes fully or it does not happen. Never leave a partial digest.

Read First

• sota/README.md — synthesis format and digestion rules (the scaffold owns the format)
• references/bibliography-rules.md — citekeys, version resolution, cross-validation

MCP Preflight (hard gate)

Before anything else, probe the scholarly MCP servers with one trivial query each (e.g., search a known title). The gate is by capability, never by API key — a missing key only throttles, it never blocks: