# Third-Party Influence and Attribution

CATAIL is a Catui-authored workflow. It adapts architectural and methodological ideas without vendoring upstream source files or copying upstream Skill text.

## CATPAW

CATPAW informed the routing pattern: one concise entry Skill, durable project artifacts, progressively loaded playbooks, and bounded verification. CATAIL does not reuse CATPAW's UI-specific scripts or agent configurations.

Source: <https://github.com/ryanleecode/catpaw>

## K-Dense Scientific Agent Skills

The following MIT-licensed skills informed CATAIL's scientific capability and method boundaries: `scientific-brainstorming`, `literature-review`, `paper-lookup`, `scientific-critical-thinking`, `hypothesis-generation`, `experimental-design`, `statistical-analysis`, `scientific-visualization`, `scientific-writing`, and `peer-review`. Their broader collection also informed the decision to keep specialist domain tools separate from a shared scientific-method kernel. CATAIL adapts general methods rather than source text or tool-specific dependencies.

Source: <https://github.com/K-Dense-AI/scientific-agent-skills>

V2 position/iteration review baseline: upstream commit `1dd0fccf46fc3c9855c4a0c313a0c57fe4319883` (reviewed 2026-09-01).

Copyright (c) 2025 K-Dense Inc. Upstream is licensed under the MIT License. CATAIL's original implementation remains distributed under the Catui repository license.