9. Research & Analysis

Grades business data sources using intelligence tradecraft, separating reliability from credibility and explicitly handling uncertainty with confidence frameworks.

Analyzes competitors' market intelligence and best practices to inform strategic business decisions and benchmark performance.

Researches and recommends optimal npm packages for Next.js and TypeScript projects, including version checks and alternatives for specific use cases.

Provides a tiered research methodology with stop rules and evidence capture, escalating to external tools only when necessary.

Conducts multi-day, comprehensive research for technology evaluation, competitive analysis, and architectural exploration to produce decision-making reports.

Generates comprehensive literature reviews by analyzing existing research papers and summarizing the current state of knowledge on a given topic.

Generates comprehensive topic analysis reports in markdown format, stored in the docs/analysis/ directory.

Performs web searches for user-requested information by routing to specialized subagents for code examples or general research.

Enables deep, foundational analysis of complex problems to uncover core truths and innovative solutions.

Systematically assesses scientific manuscripts for methodology, statistics, reproducibility, and scholarly rigor, delivering structured peer review feedback.

Intelligently searches and retrieves academic papers from multiple scholarly databases with quality filtering and citation tracking.

Guides users in formulating testable scientific hypotheses via systematic observation analysis, literature grounding, and experimental design.

Aggregates content from diverse sources and outlines key points for future articles, storing results in the in-research folder.

Guides the creation of context-free queries for a web search agent to conduct independent research without codebase or conversation history access.

Conducts market research to analyze companies, competitors, contacts, and technologies for strategic business insights.

Conducts structured exploration of user intent and requirements to guide design and implementation planning.

Analyzes GitHub repositories to understand codebase structure, architecture, and repository organization for developers and researchers.

Enables internet-scale web search with domain/date filtering and retrieval of cached page text, highlights, or summaries via Exa APIs.

Conducts startup research, market fit analysis, and competitive analysis for new project ideas and strategic planning in Startup Hub.

Gathers current web information to ensure implementations are up-to-date and avoid errors.

Provides up-to-date web information to ensure implementations remain valid and avoid broken code from outdated references.

Conducts systematic root cause analysis for health conditions by generating hypotheses, gathering evidence, and testing solutions based on user queries.

Queries PubMed and Semantic Scholar for evidence-based medical literature on conditions, treatments, and biological mechanisms.

Analyzes YouTube video transcripts to extract key insights for academic research and learning objectives.