work

Definition

In academic prose, a piece of research or the research itself, used in fixed phrases: prior work, this work, related work, concurrent work. It does not mean labour or employment here, which is a routine source of confusion in machine-translated papers. "Concurrent work" specifically means a result that appeared independently around the same time, and carries a claim about not having copied it.

Explainers using this term

• Paper walkthrough: Apodex 1.1 — scaling agents around completed workApodex 1.1: Scaling Agentic Intelligence for Complex Work
• Paper Explainer: Why Agent Skills Work — and Where They BreakDemystifying Agent Skills: Why They Work-Until They Don't