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# FirstResearch: Auditable Question Formation for LLM Scientific Discovery Agents

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**Published:** July 8, 2026  
**Original:** https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.05682  

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## Overview

arXiv:2607.05682v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM systems for scientific discovery increasingly assist with ideation, literature synthesis, experiment planning, and report generation, but the first research question they propose can remain difficult to audit: it may sound plausible without exposing the mechanism, falsifier, or assumption that a scientist should inspect. We introduce FirstResearch, a first-principles research-question formation framework for scientific LLM agents whose core art

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