The Belico ecosystem¶

Belico Ecosystem is an open source platform for the commercial production of Q1-Q4 scientific papers, designed by and for the LATAM community of professional ghostwriters and research labs.

Why Belico?¶

LATAM-first: regional compliance (Peru Law 29733, Brazil LGPD, ICMJE Jan 2026, Springer Nature 2026).
Scientific domain: Statistics, VERITAS, Anti-AI Humanizer, Citations, Multi-institution.
Production-grade: 30 in-house harnesses + forensic traceability + HMAC audit trail.
Specialized sub-agents: intake → literature → structure → draft → citation → integrity → bibliography.
Bilingual: ES + EN documentation.
Open Source MIT: the LATAM community can adopt, contribute, and improve.

The 7 components¶

Belico Core       — constitution + orchestration
Belico Memory     — persistent + cross-session
Belico SDD        — Spec-Driven Development for papers
Belico Harnesses  — 30 in-house (5 Tier 1 + 10 T2 + 15 T3)
Belico Skills     — paper-domain catalog
Belico Agents     — paper-pipeline sub-agents
Belico Tools      — 131 + adapters + 2026 matrix

Each component wires into the others: the Core orchestrates, delegates to the Agents via the Memory bus (Engram), the Harnesses validate quality at each gate, the Skills lazy-load domain knowledge, and the Tools do the heavy lifting.

The public CLI (v3.1 — Phase D)¶

5 commands to operate the ecosystem:

belico create-paper — bootstrap a paper from a multi-institution template.
belico smoke-check — real API smoke test.
belico verify — paper verification via the validate_submission harness.
belico catalog — list harnesses / agents / tools / skills.
belico ecosystem --status — ecosystem status snapshot.

See CLI reference.

Roadmap (12 weeks)¶

Phase	Deliverable
Phase 0	Strategic documentation (PRD + AD-038 + ECOSYSTEM + LICENSE + CoC)
Phase A	Identity + Branding (public README, tagline, roadmap)
Phase B	Belico Harnesses Tier 2 (10 harnesses with Python + TDD)
Phase C	Belico Agents expansion (5 CI reviewers + 4 commercial)
Phase D	Public Belico CLI (5 operational commands)
Phase E	Belico Docs public site (this site) + bilingual quickstart + case studies
Phase F	Belico Living Harness (Deterministic Handlers + Continuous Refinement)

Phases B/C/D are archived with real metrics — see Case studies.

The mother → children relationship¶

The mother is a template repo. Each child is an independent git clone with its own data and pipeline. Children inherit improvements via git fetch belico && git merge belico/main, while their clean zone (data/, articles/, config/params.yaml) is protected by .gitattributes. See Architecture.