cff-version: 1.2.0
title: "Agronaut: cited aquatic design and experimental field agriculture workflows"
message: "If you use Agronaut in research or programme work, please cite it."
type: software
authors:
  - family-names: Ouédraogo
    given-names: Abdoul Rachid
    email: abdoulrachid03@gmail.com
repository-code: "https://github.com/Rekin226/Agronaut"
license: MIT
abstract: >-
  Agronaut sizes and optimises aquaponic and hydroponic systems from a deterministic,
  unit-tested engineering model whose every coefficient carries a value, a plausible range, a
  unit, and a published source. A tool-calling language model collects facts, routes to the
  right calculation, and explains the result, but never produces a number itself: proposed
  values pass a validation gate before reaching the model, and every output states what it
  does not model. The same discipline extends to photographs — a deterministic guard strips
  fabricated readings from a vision model's description, and a fixed, cited table maps visible
  symptoms to a ranked differential rather than a single diagnosis. Design and optimisation run
  with no language model at all. Experimental field tools extend the platform to crop-water
  demand, soil-water accounting, drip and sprinkler design checks, surface-irrigation event
  analysis, and farm records from planting through harvest. These field calculations have
  software and reference checks but are not field validated.
keywords:
  - aquaponics
  - hydroponics
  - agriculture
  - food security
  - digital public good
  - deterministic modelling
  - large language models
  - agricultural extension