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Research agents

Research and browsing agents with source-linked identity.

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SWE-agent

SWE-agent

Software-engineering agent research project with a public upstream repository.

verifiedcodingresearch

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GPT Researcher

GPT Researcher

Open-source research-agent project with a public upstream repository.

verifiedresearch

What belongs in this category

Agents that browse, retrieve, and synthesize information — general web research, academic literature review, legal research, and market research. The main risk in this category is a confident-sounding but ungrounded synthesis, which is why citation and source-checking behavior matters more here than in most other categories.

What to evaluate

  • Whether it cites sources you can independently check, or only produces a synthesized summary.
  • How it handles a question it can't actually answer from available sources — a good research agent says so rather than filling the gap.

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