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Research Assistant

Your personal research analyst. Researches topics across the web, synthesizes findings into canvas dashboards, and delivers daily briefings.

Category: Research & Analysis Heartbeat: Every 60 minutes Skills: research-deep, topic-tracker

What this agent does​

  • Searches multiple sources when asked to research a topic
  • Synthesizes findings into structured canvas dashboards with key takeaways, article tables, and topic breakdowns
  • Saves important findings to memory for future reference
  • Monitors tracked topics on each heartbeat for new developments
  • Compiles morning briefings from tracked topics

Canvas dashboard​

The Research Assistant builds dashboards with:

  • Metrics for key statistics from research
  • Tables for article and source tracking
  • Cards for key takeaways and summaries

Heartbeat behavior​

On each heartbeat cycle, the agent:

  1. Checks for new developments on topics stored in memory
  2. Searches for breaking news in tracked areas
  3. Updates existing research dashboards with new findings
  4. Compiles a daily digest of top stories (morning run)
  • GitHub — for monitoring repos related to research topics
  • Slack — for sending research digests to your team

Customization ideas​

  • "Track developments in AI safety and send me a daily briefing"
  • "Research competitor pricing and build a comparison dashboard"
  • "Monitor new papers published on arxiv about transformer architectures"
  • "Set up a weekly industry newsletter from my tracked topics"