[Atlas] Build automated gap scanner — analyze new papers for contradictions and unknowns

[Atlas] Build automated gap scanner — analyze new papers for contradictions and unknowns

Quest: Gap Factory Priority: P3 Status: open

Goal

Build automated gap scanner — analyze new papers for contradictions and unknowns

Context

This task is part of the Gap Factory quest (Atlas layer). It contributes to the broader goal of building out SciDEX's atlas capabilities.

Acceptance Criteria

Approach

Read relevant source files to understand current state

Plan implementation based on existing architecture

Implement changes

Test affected pages with curl

Commit with descriptive message and push

Work Log

2026-04-17 — Verification

• Status: Work already complete on main
• Verification: scripts/gap_scanner.py exists on main with full implementation (623 lines)

- Analyzes new papers for contradictions and unknowns using Claude
- Uses landscape context (thin regions, domain whitespace) for targeted gap detection
- Creates knowledge gaps in database when significant gaps found
- Has artifact registry integration for governance/provenance
- Supports dry-run (--review) and execute (--execute) modes
- Commits on main: 41dc07b1b (Senate reorganization), ba9292f41 (dedup governance)

• Note: No commits reference task ID f456463e9e67 — work was absorbed into Senate reorganization
• Database issue: Pre-existing "malformed database schema" error unrelated to gap scanner code

2026-04-19 — Gap Scanner Shim Fix

• Status: Fixed broken backward-compat shim at root gap_scanner.py
• Issue: The shim at gap_scanner.py had hardcoded paths to another worktree (task-1f699995ef18) instead of using dynamic paths
• Fix: Updated gap_scanner.py to use Path(__file__).resolve().parent for correct relative paths to scripts/deprecated/gap_scanner.py
• Verification: python3 gap_scanner.py --help works correctly, script runs and imports modules properly
• Commit: 536ae1b22 [Atlas] Fix gap scanner shim with dynamic paths instead of hardcoded worktree [task:f456463e9e67]
• Note: Actual implementation is in scripts/deprecated/gap_scanner.py (not scripts/gap_scanner.py as spec originally stated)

Tasks using this spec (1)

[Atlas] Build automated gap scanner — analyze new papers for

File: f456463e9e67_atlas_build_automated_gap_scanner_analy_spec.md

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