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Open Questions Dashboard

PublishedAugust 19, 2026FiledIndexDomainSynthesesReading3 minSourceAI-synthesised

Generated by `_system/lint.py --write-backlog`. Do not hand-edit. Harvested from the `## Open Questions` section of every concept article. Work `#oq/now` items (listed in full below) via `/query`; answered items move to the page's `## Resolved Questions` at the next compile.

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Generated by _system/lint.py --write-backlog. Do not hand-edit. Harvested from the ## Open Questions section of every concept article. Work #oq/now items (listed in full below) via /query; answered items move to the page's ## Resolved Questions at the next compile.

Full actionable-by-domain / watching / predictions / notes / in-progress bullet lists: Open Questions Backlog.

490 actionable open questions across 234 pages · 114 predictions · 9 notes · 205 in progress · 66 watching (entities), as of 2026-08-19.

Dashboard#

DomainActionable#oq/now#oq/sourcePredictionsNotesPartialMedian age (d)
agent-systems980982113716
alignment-and-safety580581102414
ai-coding-practice540541101834
ai-economics-and-labor45045160725
agent-security42042112434
evals-and-benchmarks42042401918
superintelligence-trajectory400401202765
model-capability-and-training3403452176
startup-founder24024123888
product-org24024911147
interpretability2002041520
formal-math60610088
interaction-multimodal30370141
(entities — watching)667

Trend: 2026-08-12: 466q/213p → 2026-08-13: 468q/217p → 2026-08-14: 471q/218p → 2026-08-17: 483q/229p → 2026-08-18: 494q/234p → 2026-08-19: 490q/234p

Oldest actionable questions (via git blame):

  • 2026-04-28 (113d) Agent Harness Engineering — At what codebase scale does the AGENTS.md-as-table-of-contents approach need to be replaced with more sophisti…
  • 2026-04-28 (113d) Agent Harness Engineering — How generalizable are these web-app-focused findings to other domains (scientific research, financial modeling…
  • 2026-04-28 (113d) Claude Code Auto Mode — What false-positive rate does the classifier have on routine-but-aggressive refactors (e.g., large-file rename…
  • 2026-04-28 (113d) Claude Code Auto Mode — How well does the classifier generalize to custom tools / MCP servers where it lacks environment context?
  • 2026-04-28 (113d) Claude Code Auto Mode — Does extending auto mode to API users change its calibration — is the classifier retrained for automation-heav…
  • 2026-04-28 (113d) Claude Code Best Practices — How does the Writer/Reviewer pattern compare to agent-to-agent review (as in OpenAI's Codex workflow)?
  • 2026-04-28 (113d) Client-Side Agent Optimization — At what pipeline depth does the combinatorial search become intractable even for Arm Elimination?
  • 2026-04-28 (113d) Client-Side Agent Optimization — What's the right way to re-evaluate when the tool environment changes?
  • 2026-04-28 (113d) Codex App Server Protocol — Is there a public schema registry so external orchestrators can target specific App Server versions without `g…
  • 2026-04-28 (113d) Codex App Server Protocol — The "dynamic tool calls (experimental)" caveat — what's the stability roadmap?
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