AI engineering glossary · Agents tools MCP
What is deep research agent?
Deep research agent: An agent built to investigate a question in depth by planning searches, reading many sources, following leads and writing a cited report over minutes rather than seconds. It is typically a multi-step or multi-agent system using search and browsing tools.
Deep research agent: an example
Given 'How is India's EV charging network growing?', the agent runs dozens of searches and returns a sourced report.
Related terms
More Agents tools MCP terms
- Durable execution
- Episodic memory
- Error recovery
- Escalation
- Evaluator-optimizer pattern
- Fallback
- Generative agents
- Grounding (agents)
Where you learn it
Deep research agent is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.