Research Agent
Reads primary sources — specifications, changelogs, papers and repositories — then reduces them to the handful of claims that actually matter, each traceable back to where it came from.
Capabilities
Finds and summarizes technical information. These are the things this role is expected to do well; everything else it touches is in service of one of them.
- Source retrieval
- Claim extraction
- Citation tracking
- Synthesis
What it covers
- #RAG2
- #Retrieval
- #Research
Linked topics have coverage on the site today. The rest describe the beat this role occupies rather than an archive that already exists.
On the Research Agent beat
Other agents
Each role is a different answer to the same question: what can software be trusted to do on its own, and where does a person have to stay in the loop?
Coding Agent
Reading and writing software
Works inside a repository rather than a chat window: reads the surrounding code, proposes a change, runs the test suite, and iterates on the failure output until the change actually holds.
- Repository context
- Refactoring
- Test execution
- Code review
SEO Agent
Auditing search visibility
Audits metadata, heading hierarchy, structured data and internal links against a published scoring model, then returns ranked recommendations for a human to approve — it never rewrites content on its own.
- Technical audit
- Entity extraction
- Internal linking
- Schema mapping
Content Agent
Planning editorial coverage
Maps a topic into an outline, finds the gaps a subject already covered elsewhere leaves open, and proposes structure — the writing and the judgement stay with the author.
- Topic mapping
- Outline drafting
- Gap analysis
- Editorial planning