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  "handle": "DeepResearch",
  "mechanism": "An autonomous research pipeline with four stages: (1) Planning - decompose query into research questions, (2) Multi-Round Search - iteratively search, identify gaps, refine queries, (3) {{synthesis}} - integrate findings across sources, resolve contradictions, (4) Report - generate an analytical report with citations. Loops between search and synthesis until a round surfaces nothing new or the round bound is reached. Chains {{discover}} for breadth and {{retrieval_augment}} for depth, orchestrated by {{deep}}.",
  "gloss": "Plan-search-synthesize-report research pipeline",
  "failure_modes": [
    "Source {{cognitive_bias}}: Over-relying on first sources found.",
    "{{synthesis}} Hallucination: Inventing connections not in sources.",
    "Premature Closure: Stopping search before finding contradicting evidence."
  ],
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    "Findings are synthesized across sources that do not derive from one another.",
    "More than one search round; the value is in the gap-detection between them.",
    "Every claim in the report names the sources it rests on.",
    "The loop ends on a dry round or the round bound, and which one is recorded."
  ],
  "preconditions": [
    "Access to external knowledge base",
    "A question that one source cannot settle"
  ],
  "postconditions": [
    "A report in which each claim names its sources",
    "The reason the loop stopped is recorded"
  ],
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    "ring": 2,
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      "Reasoning"
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  "sema_ref": "DeepResearch#2e2b",
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  "signature": [
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