Corpus Index Build

Render the human-readable markdown index views for a research corpus — by-topic, by-year, authors, by-venue, by-method, by-model-size, training-pipeline, citation-network, by-author, by-org, by-bridge, unprofiled-hubs.

As of #1490, aiwg index build renders these views natively. The former standalone build.py has been retired; the JSON graph index and the markdown views are now produced by a single command, in one process, from one config (.aiwg/aiwg.config, #1491). There is no longer a "these are two different things" split to manage.

How to build the views

aiwg index build            # JSON graphs + all configured markdown views
aiwg index build --all      # same (every configured view)
aiwg index build --graph by-topic     # a single view
aiwg index build --graph citation-network
aiwg index build --force    # re-render even when the source checksum is unchanged

Views render to the output path declared per manifest entry (default indices/<name>.md). The command renders views only when the project has a documentation/references/ corpus — it is a no-op in ordinary SDLC projects.

Triggers

"build the research indices"
"rebuild corpus graphs"
"update the topic index"
"render corpus markdown views"
/corpus-index-build

In every case: run aiwg index build (optionally --graph <view> / --force).

Configuration

Views are declared under index.graphs.indices.manifest in .aiwg/aiwg.config (JSON, validated against aiwg.config.v1.json; the legacy .aiwg/config.yaml still works as a deprecated fallback — see #1491). Each manifest entry's name selects the renderer and optional output sets the path:

{
  "index": {
    "graphs": {
      "indices": {
        "manifest": [
          { "name": "by-topic",         "output": "indices/by-topic.md" },
          { "name": "by-year",          "output": "indices/by-year.md" },
          { "name": "authors",          "output": "indices/authors.md" },
          { "name": "citation-network", "output": "indices/citation-network.md" }
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}

Supported renderer names — paper views: by-topic, by-year, authors, by-venue, by-method, by-model-size, training-pipeline, citation-network, by-author, by-org, by-bridge, unprofiled-hubs; radar/discovery/funder views (#1492): by-grade, radar-stale-queue, by-trajectory, by-source, by-curator, by-funder. An unrecognized name fails the build (non-zero exit). If the manifest is absent, a default set renders (by-topic, by-year, authors, by-venue, by-method, training-pipeline, by-model-size); citation-network is added when it is present as an index.graphs key. The radar/discovery/funder views are opt-in (declare them in the manifest) — they read radar sidecars, the citation discovery block, and funders[] respectively (see the corpus data model).

What the views contain

by-topic / by-method / by-venue — papers grouped by classified taxonomy (frontmatter topics override the classifier when present).
by-year — chronological, newest first.
authors / by-author — papers per normalized author; by-author is an enriched table linking PROF-P-* people profiles when they exist.
by-org / by-bridge — affiliation rollups; by-bridge surfaces authors spanning ≥2 affiliations.
by-model-size — grouped by extracted parameter count.
citation-network — node/edge/density summary, top hubs, isolated nodes.
training-pipeline — fixed reading-order stages with in-corpus markers.
unprofiled-hubs — high in-degree REFs whose primary author lacks a profile.
by-grade — papers grouped by current GRADE (radar grade-current, A→D order; no-radar → Ungraded).
radar-stale-queue — radar-tracked papers ranked by overdue-ness (cadence window vs last-refreshed), with a stale flag. on-demand cadence is never queued.
by-trajectory — grouped by radar grade-trajectory (rising / stable / declining / …).
by-source — grouped by discovery.surface (x-search / rss / web / …; no-discovery → unknown-surface).
by-curator — grouped by discovery.curator-id (group size = curator yield).
by-funder — grouped by funders[].id; a paper appears under each of its funders (no funders → unfunded).

Each view records a Source-Checksum: header; incremental builds skip a view when its corpus checksum is unchanged (override with --force).

References

@$AIWG_ROOT/src/artifacts/corpus-views/ — native renderers (#1490)
@$AIWG_ROOT/src/artifacts/cli.ts — aiwg index build entrypoint
@$AIWG_ROOT/agentic/code/frameworks/research-complete/skills/citation-backfill/SKILL.md — prerequisite for citation-network
@$AIWG_ROOT/docs/cli-reference.md — index command reference