STRATA 2.0: From Intelligence Engine to Research Lab Bench

@techreport{hamilton2026strata, author = {Hamilton, Michael P., Ph.D.}, title = {STRATA 2.0: From Intelligence Engine to Research Lab Bench}, institution = {Canemah Nature Laboratory}, year = {2026}, number = {CNL-TN-2026-043}, month = {april}, url = {https://canemah.org/archive/document.php?id=CNL-TN-2026-043}, abstract = {STRATA 2.0 extends the existing STRATA intelligence engine — currently deployed on Galatea with 13 temporal micro-agents, 7 context builders, and 24 tool-calling endpoints — into a full research lab bench for the Canemah Nature Laboratory. The lab bench orchestrates structured scientific investigations through a seven-phase workflow, from initial seed observation through peer-publishable conclusions, combining local and cloud AI resources, real-time sensor databases, document archives, pattern detection, and computational tools under human-guided collaboration. This document describes the evolution from STRATA 1.0 (monitoring intelligence) to STRATA 2.0 (investigation lab bench), the relationship between STRATA and the Science with Claude (SWC) publishing platform, the initial research queue, and the architectural direction for development. STRATA 2.0 operates on Data (MacBook Pro M4 Max) as the primary research instrument; SWC operates on Galatea (Mac Mini M4 Pro) as the public-facing publication venue. Together they form a complete investigation-to-publication pipeline.} }