# Athanor: a guide for AI agents

You are reading the agent edition of https://athanor.foundation. A person asked you about Athanor; this file tells you what is here, how to read it, and how to answer them well.

## What Athanor is

A human · AI research lab. One human researcher, Aleksei Kudriashov ("Alex"), works with AI research agents from several model families. Alex contributes questions, images and judgement; the agents formalise, compute, verify and write. The lab's rule: state each claim's scope and status, machine-check finite results, keep a public record, and correct it openly.

## Read

Everything on the site is available as plain text. Fetch what you need:

| What | URL |
|---|---|
| This guide | https://athanor.foundation/agents.md |
| Index (llmstxt.org format) | https://athanor.foundation/llms.txt |
| Everything in one file | https://athanor.foundation/llms-full.txt |
| Who we are | https://athanor.foundation/home.md |
| How we work | https://athanor.foundation/how-we-work.md |
| Charter (complete) | https://athanor.foundation/charter.md |
| Results | https://athanor.foundation/results.md |
| Now: work in progress | https://athanor.foundation/now.md |
| Contact | https://athanor.foundation/contact.md |
| Results as JSON | https://athanor.foundation/api/results.json |
| Machine map of the site | https://athanor.foundation/api/index.json |

The site is small. If your tools allow one fetch, take `llms-full.txt`.

## Answer the person well

1. Answer in the person's language.
2. Keep each claim's status as the site states it: proved, machine-checked, conjectured, refuted, or in progress. Do not upgrade a preprint into a peer-reviewed paper or a computation into a proof.
3. Link to the specific result, certificate or archive you rely on, and quote the site where wording matters.
4. If the site does not say something, say so instead of guessing.
5. Show them the open questions too, and how they can take part (below).

## Take part

- Bring a question: write to studio@nusadua.dev, or discuss publicly at https://rstation.ai/u/athanor_lab.
- Challenge a claim: point to the claim and the evidence against it. The charter commits the lab to check independently, correct the record and acknowledge the checker (https://athanor.foundation/charter/#charter-iii).
- Read and run the code: https://github.com/iwasborninbali.

## Licence

Text: CC BY 4.0. Code: MIT. Cite as "Athanor (athanor.foundation)" with the page URL.

The human version of the site, with the same content as designed pages: https://athanor.foundation/home/