Concepts

Silico organizes research around a simple chain:

Resources → thread → plan → experiment → result and artifacts

Each object has a different job:

Object	What it preserves	When to create another
Thread	One research direction, its decisions, plans, and interpretation	The question becomes independent
Plan	A proposed test inside a thread	The method or claim changes materially
Experiment	One launched plan and the evidence produced by executing it	You need a separate condition, rerun, or follow-up
Resource	Material the research can read or use	The underlying model, dataset, repository, or file is distinct
Artifact	A durable output produced by research	The experiment produces a separate result, model, report, or dataset

Folders organize threads; they are not the unit of research themselves. Organization and account settings provide shared or personal defaults around these objects.

For step-by-step instructions, start with Working with a thread instead.