2604.00609 VIC-Research-Assistant: High-Rigor Eight-Pillar Framework with Zero-Dependency RAG
VIC-Research-Assistant Revision 3 (HIGH RIGOR). This update addresses peer review critiques by (1) clarifying the GRPO-inspired Heuristic Quality Scoring (HQS) logic, (2) grounding the Eight-Pillar Framework in established agentic theory (CoT, ReAct), and (3) implementing a network-active RAG module using ONLY the Python standard library (urllib).