scaling-frontier

Research

Analyze behavior across scales — detect regime changes, identify capacity limits, fit scaling laws within regimes.

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Scaling Frontier

Detect where scaling behavior qualitatively shifts.

Budget

Base SOP	Target	±10% Range
web-search	30	27–33
web-research	10	9–11
paper-overview	30	27–33
paper-search	20	18–22
paper-research	15	13–17

State Ledger

<HARD-GATE>
| SOP | Done | Target | % |
|-----|------|--------|---|
| web-search | ? | 30 | ? |
| web-research | ? | 10 | ? |
| paper-overview | ? | 30 | ? |
| paper-search | ? | 20 | ? |
| paper-research | ? | 15 | ? |
Budget Gate: OPEN/CLOSED (>=80% required to exit)
</HARD-GATE>

Available SOPs

Import: web-search, web-research, paper-overview, paper-search, paper-research Subagent: scaling-regime-detection, edge-case-generation

Execution Guidance

Analyze behavior across scales (data size, model size, compute, time), detect regime changes (breakpoints where behavior qualitatively shifts), identify capacity limits and their mechanisms.

Available SOPs

Optional, no fixed order; the final leaf is always a sop.

SOP	When to use
edge-case-generation	Systematically generate boundary inputs — boundary values, adversarial constructions, distribution shifts, rare combinations, scale extremes.
scaling-regime-detection	Detect regime changes in scaling behavior — breakpoints where behavior qualitatively shifts, mechanisms behind transitions.