How recipes work

Sections of a recipe

Section	Content
Summary	The recipe in two or three sentences.
Steps	Numbered steps to follow.
How to check the output	Who or what checks the result, and how long it takes.
Examples	Examples from groups that use the recipe, with names and details removed.
Known problems	Errors seen so far, linked to What went wrong.
Skills	Skill briefs for the recipe, from the list of skills.
Related practices	The practices on aiforscience.eu that the recipe follows.
Change history	Dated changes, newest first.

The box "About this recipe" shows the stage (prepare for agents, think with agents, or implement with agents), how the output is checked (machine-checkable, expert-checkable or hard to verify), and how much freedom the agent has.

Status

Status	Meaning
draft	Proposed, but not yet in regular use by the contributor.
tried	In regular use by at least one group.
reproduced	Used by a second, independent group, which added its own example to the page.

A recipe becomes reproduced only when another group adds an example. An error report can add a step to a recipe or change its status back.

Numbering

Recipe N follows point N of the Comment "Delegate what you can check" (see The idea). New recipes from contributors get the next free number.

Review

Proposals and changes are public, editors review them, and every change is dated. Names and details are removed from examples by default. Contributors are named only if they ask to be.