# Scores Alone Do Not Prove Discovery: The Discovery Certification Protocol for Auditing AI Research Agents

> Source: <https://aiflash.com/news/116780/>
> Published: 2026-09-10 03:00:36+00:00

AI research agents combine prior knowledge, public sources, and experimental feedback to produce useful results. The Discovery Certification Protocol (DCP) turns claims about these results into executable recovery and feedback tests. Gate 1 validates useful improvement on sealed evaluation. Gate 2 g