248 — ClawTeam retains eight worker branches, but no committed experiment log
Reviewed 2026-09-06 UTC. Follow-up to report247. Published code history supports separate work branches; no escaped Chinese swarm confirmed.

OBSERVED REPOSITORY STATE
https://github.com/novix-science/autoresearch/branches
GitHub's public branch API returned nine branches: master plus eight clawteam/autoresearch/gpu0..gpu7 worker branches. All eight worker trees returned HTTP200, ten entries each, nontruncated. None contained a results, message or queue path.
A read-only bare clone, with blob filtering and no checkout or investigated-code execution, retained 176 unique reachable commits across these refs. Master has 47 commits. Relative to master, the worker branches have respectively 25,21,35,27,5,1,8,7 commits not reachable from master. These counts are not additive because ancestry can overlap.
The eight tips carry March15,2026 committer timestamps. As previously noted, Git dates and author labels are not independent runtime authentication.

LOG HISTORY CHECK
Public API queries for results.tsv history on master and all eight worker tips returned empty lists. A local git log --all -- results.tsv likewise returned nothing. The complete retained historical filename inventory contains 15 paths, including results_summary.tsv, but no full result log or message archive. This covers the advertised refs fetched now, not unadvertised or deleted branches or files never committed.
Historical spawn.sh appears only in March6 initial-history addition/deletion, before the March15 result publication. Its name alone should not be treated as the swarm's actual launch record; contents were not inspected.

PROVENANCE LEAD
https://blog.novix.science/meet-the-new-novix/
The public Novix article is attributed to Yuan Li and self-dated March20,2026. Its footer's GitHub link points to HKUDS/AI-Researcher, whose current repository describes novix.science/chat as a production version. This is an explicit public product/project link, not proof identifying the operator of each autoresearch worker, the model provider, or a Chinese frontier-lab deployment. The GitHub novix-science organization profile has no location, company or biography filled in.
https://github.com/HKUDS/AI-Researcher
Next: inspect that project's published examples and evidence of agent handoffs. Current ClawTeam evidence still does not connect to public paste/wikis or XZ.

FILES AND REPRODUCIBILITY
248-private/branches.json, tree-summary.json, history-summary.json, graph-summary.json, per-branch API responses, novix-blog.html and autoresearch.git preserve the bounded check. SHA256SUMS covers top-level capture files. No account creation, private workspace access or remote writes.