What an abstract is for
Reach for an abstract when you need the written record — the thesis, the evidence, and the caveats in one cited document.
Structured sections
Question, summary, key findings, evidence, limitations, open questions.
Traceable evidence
Each claim links back to the source record — PubMed, a trial, a DOI, a dataset — and references retain the depth Cortexa read them at, whether that was the paper's own abstract or its full text.
Scannable takeaway
A lead takeaway up top so a reader gets the point in seconds.
Create & refine
You decide when the session is ready — the agent never writes an abstract on its own. Drafts are starting points; iterate without losing prior versions.
Add abstract
Click the chip under any assistant turn; add a focus or leave it blank.
Refine
A focused prompt scoped to the abstract — change audience, expand a section, revisit a figure.
Regenerate
Rebuild from the full session when the first draft missed the mark.
Fix facts upstream, not in the abstract
An abstract is a render of the session. If a citation or chart is wrong, correct the underlying chat turn or analysis run, then Regenerate — don’t hand-edit the output.
Chart honesty
Every figure states where its data came from — the reason an abstract is trustworthy on first read.
drawn_from_data
Plotted from a real session file or analysis output.
parametric
Computed from a named equation; points are model output.
simulated_illustration
An explicitly-requested illustrative shape, labeled as such.
deferred_no_data
Not enough data — Cortexa defers instead of fabricating.