Autonomous Research Agents
Build research agents that autonomously explore and discover
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Research agents need four categories of tools: discovery (find sources), processing (extract information), analysis (validate claims), and intelligence (synthesize insights). Each tool amplifies agent capabilities.
Interactive: Research Tool Explorer
Explore the essential tools for research agents:
PubMed, arXiv, Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar. Return 50-100 papers per query with titles, abstracts, citations.
Tool Orchestration Pattern
# Research agent orchestrates multiple tools
class ResearchAgent:
def __init__(self):
self.search = SearchAPI(apis=['pubmed', 'arxiv', 'scholar'])
self.extractor = PDFExtractor()
self.analyzer = CodeExecutor()
self.brain = SynthesisModel(model='gpt-4')
async def research(self, topic: str) -> Report:
# 1. Discovery: Find relevant papers
papers = await self.search.find_papers(topic, limit=100)
# 2. Processing: Extract content from papers
contents = await asyncio.gather(*[
self.extractor.extract(paper.url)
for paper in papers[:20] # Process top 20
])
# 3. Analysis: Validate key claims
validated = []
for content in contents:
claims = self.brain.extract_claims(content)
for claim in claims:
if claim.requires_validation:
result = await self.analyzer.validate(claim)
validated.append((claim, result))
# 4. Intelligence: Synthesize findings
report = self.brain.synthesize(
contents=contents,
validated=validated,
format='comprehensive'
)
return reportAgent coordinates tools in sequence: search → extract → analyze → synthesize. Each tool feeds the next. Parallelization speeds up processing (20 PDFs extracted concurrently).
Tool Selection Strategy
Humans use 1-2 tools (Google Scholar, manual reading). Research agents use 10+ tools (multiple search APIs, automated extraction, code execution, synthesis models). This tool diversity is the key advantage. Agents can query PubMed, arXiv, and Scholar simultaneously, extract from 20 PDFs in parallel, validate claims with code, and synthesize findings - all in minutes.