Everyone built a multi-agent research system this year. Nobody said why it should work.
This paper does.
It grounds the whole thing in Assembly Theory: a complex object is defined by the history that built it out of reusable parts.
Which means throwing away failed branches isn’t wasteful.
It’s deleting the thing you’re trying to build.
Complex engineering solutions are rarely the result of a single breakthrough. They are assembled from discoveries: a mechanism uncovered in one experiment, a design principle validated in another, or an interaction that later becomes useful in a completely different direction. PRAXIST preserves these discoveries as evidence-backed building blocks that carry across generations of research, where they can be validated, refined, reused, and combined into more capable designs.
With every generation, the set of tested building blocks grows, giving the next round of research a stronger foundation to build on. Useful discoveries can be carried forward, refined, and recombined across future experiments, so each generation begins with more knowledge than the last. Every experiment expands what can be built next.
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