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\section{Conclusion and research contracts}\label{sec:conclusion}

PixCell establishes a visual-to-executable interface for photonic component
creation. Multimodal coding agents recover parametric programs from calibrated
silhouettes, deterministic verification makes those programs measurable, and
their live variables connect reconstruction to cross-stack evaluation. The
same executable relationship enables synthetic dataset creation and
verifier-derived training. These results connect representation, verification,
retargeting, simulation, and training through one program interface.

The results leave four research directions that matter directly to what
PixCell can establish. We release them as research contracts. The paper records
their purpose, while the versioned contract files define the current tests,
evidence requirements, and claim boundaries:
creation where multimodal agents can successfully represent visual inputs as
parametric code composed of geometric primitives. The deterministic
verification metric makes those programs measurable, and their parametric
nature connects reconstruction to cross-stack evaluation and the possibility
of PDK retargeting. This interface also enables synthetic dataset creation and
verifier-derived training. As a result, we have connected representation,
verification, retargeting, simulation, and training through one program
interface. The results leave four research directions that matter directly to
what PixCell can establish. We release them as research contracts, with the
versioned contract files defining the current tests, evidence requirements,
and claim boundaries:
\begin{enumerate}
\item \textbf{RC-01, shape-aware visual verification,} extends geometric scoring so
structurally correct reconstructions can be separated from visually similar
shortcuts. This matters because verification guides reconstruction, selection,
and training throughout PixCell.
shortcuts. Verification guides reconstruction, selection, and training
throughout PixCell, and so better verification metrics are crucial.
\item \textbf{RC-02, process-faithful 2D-to-3D retargeting,} carries editable programs
into fuller stack and fabrication models. This connects the parametric freedom
demonstrated in Sec.~\ref{sec:pdk} to physical conclusions beyond
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The current versioned terms, evidence requirements, and executable verdict
logic for these directions are released under
\href{https://github.com/QPG-MIT/PixCell/tree/main/research-contracts}
{\texttt{research-contracts/}}. The
\href{https://pixcell.qpaig.com/\#research-contracts}{PixCell project page}
{\texttt{research-contracts/}} in the PixCell repository. The
\href{https://pixcell.qpaig.com/\#research-contracts}{PixCell webpage}
shows live funding and claim state, links each specification, and provides the
claim controls. A claimant signs in through GitHub and selects an available
contract, or opens a claim-request issue in the repository. Issuer-side
recomputation of the required evidence determines settlement. The contracts
therefore extend PixCell's central separation to follow-on work: researchers
and agents choose how to search, while frozen evidence and independent
recomputation determine what can be claimed.
claim controls. Importantly, our recomputation of the required evidence
determines settlement of these contracts.

\paragraph*{Data and code availability.} The PixCell implementation,
benchmark fixtures, 208 reconstruction programs, conductor measurements,
worker transcripts, retargeting records, simulation inputs and result
matrices, training recipes, and figure-generation scripts are released at
\url{https://github.com/QPG-MIT/PixCell}. The repository maps claims to
artifacts in \texttt{data/README.md}; large FDTD fields and render rasters
artifacts in \texttt{data/README.md}. Large FDTD fields and render rasters
are indexed by a checksummed external-bundle manifest. The frozen synthetic
curriculum is released at
\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/qpaig-mit/pixcell} under revision
\texttt{v2.0.0}. Derived training tables and figure assets are included,
while the full attempt and run ledgers are designated for the companion
training artifact release.
\texttt{v2.0.0}. Derived training tables and figure assets are included.

\begin{acknowledgments}
Artificial Intelligence, particularly Claude Opus 4.8, Fable 5, and ChatGPT
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