Cost "f": price the agent at the model it runs; thinking/vision token breakdown; model switch; near-duplicate gate

Cost: bounded Gemini thinking on every call (default low), figure mining off by default; one-shot config migration

Candidate queue: a bulk discovery pass fills agent_candidates, cycles drain it; UDSpace + CORE lanes

Merge the 17 Sep "more papers" lanes onto the hotfix line; parallel ingestion; throughput knobs

discovery: NASA NTRS lane (search_ntrs), on by default

agent_runs instrumentation, stall detector, figure linking in the cycle

More papers: budget-aware sources, frontier rotation, schema gate, topic walk, S2 bulk, datasheets, query grid

Figure & graph mining in the autonomous cycle: figures.py + Postgres port, crops stored in DB, review UI

ui: Run Control — settings grouped into cards, layout only

Fix false 'cycle running' state: boot force-sweeps dead runs and clears leftover lock; UI treats only a fresh lock as running

Initial deploy: autonomous ingestion agent (plan→discover→dedupe→download→ingest→report)