ResearchAgent
A lightweight, transparent research-oriented AI agent that uses an explicit staged process (planning, search and verification, synthesis). It provides calibrated confidence scores with justifications, cites only real sources that were actually retrieved, supports local execution, and includes human approval gates.
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Reddit user u/spidervirus developed a research-oriented agent called ResearchAgent.
ResearchAgent's design splits the research process into three stages: plan, search/verify, and synthesize.
ResearchAgent only cites real sources that it actually fetched.
ResearchAgent provides calibrated confidence scores with justifications and lists limitations by severity.
The calibration quality of ResearchAgent's confidence scores itself remains an open question, and the developer is seeking community feedback.
ResearchAgent can run fully locally with Ollama and DuckDuckGo, without mandatory reliance on cloud services.
ResearchAgent supports optional human approval gates.
ResearchAgent comes with progressive examples and tutorials to help users understand how each component works.
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Reddit user u/spidervirus developed a research-oriented agent called ResearchAgent.
50%UnverifiedResearchAgent's design splits the research process into three stages: plan, search/verify, and synthesize.
50%UnverifiedResearchAgent only cites real sources that it actually fetched.
50%UnverifiedResearchAgent provides calibrated confidence scores with justifications and lists limitations by severity.
50%UnverifiedThe calibration quality of ResearchAgent's confidence scores itself remains an open question, and the developer is seeking community feedback.
50%UnverifiedResearchAgent can run fully locally with Ollama and DuckDuckGo, without mandatory reliance on cloud services.
50%UnverifiedResearchAgent supports optional human approval gates.
50%UnverifiedResearchAgent comes with progressive examples and tutorials to help users understand how each component works.
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