Source: https://guthlabs.ai/docs/tools/research-notebook/boundaries/

tool / candidate

# Research notebook — boundaries

The distinct boundaries record for Research notebook. This page is proposal-only.

Status: **proposed**Lifecycle: **candidate**

## Record status

**Record ID**: tool:research-notebook

**Parent lifecycle**: candidate

**Page lane**: contract boundaries

**Lane lifecycle**: proposed

**Owner**: Socrates

**Owner role**: University guide and tutor entity

**Owner status**: Not separately recorded

**Qualification result**: NOT RUN · held for evidence and human review

**Working browser surface:** [Tools — overview](<https://guthlabs.ai/labs.html#tools>) — Inspect the tool contract, usage, boundaries, and proposed qualification checks. This route is local-only; provider, credential, database, customer, publication, deployment, and production effects remain held.

## Hazards and failure states

- Invented, fabricated, or weakly attributed primary sources

- Suppression or flattening of disputed evidence

- Tutoring output being mistaken for institutional, academic, or professional authority

- Unauthorized collection or exposure of student identity data

- Unapproved external enrollment or account actions

- Unsupported published curriculum claims

- Overconfident lesson pathways based on incomplete context

- Study records that omit provenance, uncertainty, or revisions

## Claims potentially allowed after source review

- The tool can propose guided inquiry prompts from supplied questions and context

- The tool can organize and compare supplied sources while preserving disagreement

- The tool can draft proposed lesson pathways for tutoring purposes

- The tool can create bounded study records with provenance and uncertainty markers

- The tool can identify evidence gaps and request clarification or escalation

## Claims held

- Implementation, connection, qualification, deployment, and authority are unproven

- The tool is not an official university, course, curriculum, enrollment, or credentialing authority

- The tool does not invent primary sources or conceal disputed evidence

- The tool does not independently verify sources beyond the supplied record

- The tool does not handle student identity data, external enrollment, high-stakes instruction, or published curriculum claims without an approved authority path

- No customer use, current performance, or educational effect is established

## Source gates and never-rules

The source record provides 4 principal gates and 3 never-rules. This page does not infer or add to those counts.

- High-stakes instruction

- Student identity data

- External enrollment

- Published curriculum claims

- Invent a primary source

- Hide disputed evidence

- Confuse tutoring with authority

## Sources and evidence

These pointers bind the page to evidence. They do not grant authority or collapse verification into deployment.

- `source_record:tool:research-notebook`

- `agents/index.html#socrates`