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The bottleneck was never the cameras — it was the manual, expert-dependent analysis that came after. Researchers at Oak Ridge built a two-agent framework to fix that: a conversational Co-Scientist Agent that converts a scientist's plain-English question into a structured analysis plan, and a Compute Agent that dispatches Vision Transformer segmentation and trait extraction on the Frontier exascale supercomputer. The two agents run in separate security and resource domains and talk over a token-authenticated streaming channel.\n\nThat architecture detail matters. Most cloud-native AI frameworks are built for convenience, not for the data provenance and federation requirements that serious scientific computing demands. By capturing end-to-end provenance for every interaction, this framework is designed to hold up under the scrutiny peer review actually requires — something a generic agentic scaffold would likely fail. The result is a system where scientists query results, get recommendations for follow-up analyses, and iterate in real time instead of waiting days between steps.\n\nThe broader pattern here is familiar: in genomics, in drug discovery, in climate modeling, the bottleneck has quietly shifted from data collection to data interpretation. 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