A Proposal for a Fully Autonomous Scientific Production System: Architectural Specification and Epistemic Boundaries

This document proposes the design of a fully autonomous scientific production system capable of generating structured research artifacts end-to-end without human participation during the generative phase. The proposal concerns the formal automation of scientific artifact production including hypothesis generation, analytical execution, adversarial evaluation, and manuscript structuring under explicitly bounded domain constraints. The system does not claim ontological validation, epistemic authority, or replacement of scientific communities. Instead, it formalizes research artifact production as a computational process integrated with procedural verification through a Computational Verification Layer (CVL). Generated outputs enter scientific discourse as contestable contributions subject to external evaluation. The purpose of this document is to define the architecture, operational logic, epistemic limits, and illustrative deployment of such a system.