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The Argument Becomes Shared State
GroundWork turns claims, evidence and warrants into an editable graph that humans and language models can inspect together.
Summary
GroundWork turns claims, evidence and warrants into an editable graph that humans and language models can inspect together.
Conversational interfaces hide an analysis’s argumentative structure inside a transcript. GroundWork instead represents the Toulmin model as a typed graph with explicit edit operations for both people and language models, coordinated source views, and a workbench for comparing and tracing arguments. Four experts spanning consulting, product development, law and immunology used the system across intelligence, legal and medical scenarios. The small qualitative study found that participants could inspect, compare and revise source-grounded arguments as shared state. It does not establish productivity gains at scale, but it makes provenance and disagreement visible at the level where reasoning changes.
Why it matters
GroundWork turns claims, evidence and warrants into an editable graph that humans and language models can inspect together.
Limits and context
- It does not establish productivity gains at scale, but it makes provenance and disagreement visible at the level where reasoning changes.
Key claims
GroundWork turns claims, evidence and warrants into an editable graph that humans and language models can inspect together.
Qualification: It does not establish productivity gains at scale, but it makes provenance and disagreement visible at the level where reasoning changes.
Evidence: source-2026-11-09-013
Sources
- arXiv preprint 2611.09840, original v1arXiv · primary research
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