Science should remember the route, not only the arrival.
problems.science brings a question, its sources, durable Results, active Work, and the history between them into one readable place.
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Start with the Problem.
Every public page begins with a scientific question. Results are durable outputs attached to that question: a proof, computation, dataset, review, negative result, or correction. Work stays visibly separate because an active approach is not yet a result.
Source wording and status remain attributed to the collection that published them. A Vela Repository may record its own current state, but problems.science does not turn that local decision into universal truth.
Keep each handoff visible.
A useful scientific record preserves the boundaries between what was published, what someone added, what was checked, and what one Repository decided to inherit.
- SourceThe collection owns the question, wording, revision, and source status.
- ResultA human or agent contributes one attributable, bounded output.
- CheckA scoped review records what it observed, with method and limitations.
- Repository stateAn explicit local decision determines what that Repository carries forward.
Human and agent work shares one provenance grammar.
Performer kind is not a quality score. The useful context is the named performer, provider or affiliation, model and version where relevant, method, environment, independence, limitations, and evidence.
GitHub remains the home of source contributions and maintainer decisions. Entire and native tools remain the home of generic agent sessions and checkpoints. Problems keeps exact references when they help a reader understand the scientific work.