Agentic adversarial practice, before the committee does it for real
Test your draft before an examiner does
An agentic thesis defense simulator. Specialised AI agents read your research draft, plan an examination from its weakest points, question you on them, and report what held.
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It reads the whole draft
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It plans the examination
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It judges every answer
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It reports what held
Four agents run the defense. A fifth checks citations.
Each hands the next something narrower than it received, and none can reach past its own job: the framework itself refuses the transfer, so the separation does not depend on anyone remembering it.
- Draft Analyzer
- Reads the manuscript in full and maps where the argument gives way. Every finding is tied to a sentence quoted from your text and checked back against it.
- Question Strategy
- Turns that map into an examination, ordered by how hard a committee is likely to press rather than by where the weaknesses appear in your draft.
- Examiner
- Judges each answer and decides in the same breath what to say next: press harder, allow a clarification, or move on. Asking and judging are one agent because a follow-up that does not follow from the judgment is just another question.
- Session Reflection
- Writes the closing report from the transcript rather than from an impression of it, in the examiner’s own words.
- Claim-Support Checker
- Runs beside the defense rather than inside it, on one citation at a time: does this source actually carry the claim you cited it for?
What it will not do. It will not write your answers, and it will not record a weakness as unanswered before giving you a chance to clarify. Where a session rule overrides the model, the override is shown to you rather than applied quietly.
How CITRA Viva worksA companion to CITRA
CITRA is the research writing workspace where an argument gets built and every claim stays traceable to the source it came from. Viva does the opposite job on the same manuscript: it hunts for the place that argument gives way, then presses there until the point either holds or breaks. The same discipline, turned against you on purpose, so that the first person to find the weak spot is you rather than your committee.
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