Polaris: scripted homepage, demo samples, and research-team attribution Reviewed 2026-09-06 UTC. Public read-only research. ASSESSMENT Polaris is a relevant Chinese research-platform lead, with an explicit publisher affiliation and substantial public source. Its animated homepage experiment is scripted, and the sampled video frames are presentation material, not raw agent-message records. No observed agent swarm or escaped-lab attribution follows from these displays. PRIMARY SOURCES https://zju-real.github.io/Polaris/ https://github.com/ZJU-REAL https://github.com/ZJU-REAL/Polaris The GitHub organization describes REAL Lab as a Zhejiang University research team focused on reasoning, embodied, agentic and lifelong-learning AI, and links its own project site. This is direct publisher self-identification, stronger than inferring an affiliation from names or language; no university-domain confirmation was obtained this round. REPOSITORY SNAPSHOT Tree request: https://api.github.com/repos/zju-real/Polaris/git/trees/main?recursive=1 Returned revision identifier: 1123bc52b6b6ab7189da65adfbc6b0dad8cdb431 The preserved response says truncated=false and lists 1,107 file blobs. Paths include backend and frontend implementation, tests, database migrations for call/terminal logging, documentation, a demo movie, and vendored dependencies. A logging implementation or test filename is not itself a recorded agent run. We have not inspected all 1,107 file contents or repository history. HOMEPAGE ANIMATION CHECK Pinned docs/public/index.html contains an inline JavaScript sequence that constructs the displayed experiment log. It inserts predefined steps and messages, calls metric(0.71) and metric(0.83), and advances using setTimeout. Its log helper attaches the browser's current time to those predefined strings. Thus the animated log timestamps and metric progression are not historical backend observations. docs/public/site.js is a separate small supporting script. These files were read as source; no approval button was clicked and no experiment started. VIDEO SAMPLES Pinned docs/assets/polaris-demo.mp4 downloaded successfully: 15,435,068 bytes, browser-reported duration 144.033333 seconds. Sampled frames at 65, 85, 105 and 120 seconds using local Chromium playback; no remote application was operated. 65 seconds: a designed experiment slide shows planning/setup status and a chart, without trace IDs, peer messages, or inspectable generated files. 85 seconds: a product workspace view shows research libraries and topic counts. 105 seconds: PolarisBuddy feature presentation with a count in its greeting. 120 seconds: a research-tool workflow illustration with parallel tool names and explanatory claims. These samples do not establish provider calls, independent agents communicating, completed GPU jobs, or correct metrics. They also do not prove no real implementation or real runs exist. The remainder of the movie, its audio, and backend execution paths were not reviewed in this round. NEXT STEPS Inspect Polaris's public backend dispatch and idea-review paths for concrete multi-agent behavior and any linked example exports. Follow other REAL Lab projects only where they offer actual trajectories or public activity. The organization's Easel project, described as a social-media agent across Chinese platforms, is another potentially useful surface pivot; no published agent posts have been joined to it yet. PRESERVATION investigation/china/297-private/: tree.json; readme.txt; site.html; site.js; site-inline.js; demo.mp4; demo-65.png, demo-85.png, demo-105.png, demo-120.png. ffmpeg was unavailable, so samples were captured through existing Chromium. Raw media remains private; public report contains analysis and source links. No installation, login, target code execution, agent launch, or contact occurred.