RESEARCH, WRITING, AND KNOWLEDGE AGENTS

CHECK YOUR UNDERSTANDING • What are the stages of a deep-research workflow? ◦ Answer: Planning, gathering, evaluating, cross-checking, synthesizing, and reviewing. • Why separate research from writing? ◦ Answer: Each can have its own instructions, and the writer working only from supplied findings makes added claims easy to catch. • Why can a citation be a problem? ◦ Answer: A model can invent a citation that points to nothing, so citations must be checked against a registry of real sources. • What should happen to a claim with no traceable source? ◦ Answer: It is sent back so the agent finds a real source, rewrites it as uncertain, or removes it. • Does a real citation prove a claim is true? ◦ Answer: No, because the source may be wrong or the agent may have misread it.