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Glossary · Research Agent

Research Agent

A research agent is an AI agent that gathers, synthesizes, and cites information from multiple sources to answer a question or produce a briefing.

Research agents rely heavily on retrieval and tool use, and their quality hinges on accuracy and proper sourcing rather than fluency.

Because a confident but wrong synthesis is costly, research agents are best judged on outcome correctness, surfacing hallucination as failed outcomes.

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