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What agents are good for today
Agents are effective at the connective work between scientific tools: finding a dataset, checking its structure, configuring a job, turning output into a plot. Demonstrations in the project cover EarthScope data through the National Data Platform, LAMMPS trajectory analysis, ParaView visualization, and IOR deployment.
In the eScience 2025 evaluation, an agent with IOWarp context completed EarthScope retrieval and visualization, while the comparison agent without that context did not complete the workflow.
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What stays with scientists
Choosing the question, judging whether a result is meaningful, and deciding what to publish remain human responsibilities. IOWarp designs agents to stage work for review rather than to declare conclusions.
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Architecture matters
A single agent with every tool attached becomes slow and error-prone. CLIO Agent packs route work through an orchestrator to domain experts and short-lived workers, each with a narrower tool set and context.