deep-research

deep-research

A Claude Code plugin that emulates Claude.ai's Deep Research feature. Conducts parallel multi-agent web research, writes a structured cited report, and archives all sources locally.

Installation

Add to your Claude Code plugins:

claude plugins add /path/to/deep-research

Or symlink into ~/.claude/plugins/.

How It Works

Ask Claude a research question with the plugin active. The deep-researching skill triggers automatically and runs a 6-phase pipeline:

1. Decompose - Breaks your question into 3-5 sub-topics
2. Broad research - Dispatches 3-5 research-worker agents in parallel, each investigating a sub-topic via web search
3. Synthesize - Merges findings, identifies gaps and conflicts
4. Follow-up - Dispatches targeted workers to fill gaps (if needed)
5. Archive - Background agent saves all cited sources as markdown + raw HTML via curl
6. Report - Writes a structured report with inline citations and bibliography

Output

Each research run creates a timestamped directory:

./research-{topic}-{YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS}/
├── report.md              # Final report with inline citations [1][2]...
└── sources/
    ├── index.md           # Source index table
    ├── 001-example-com.md
    ├── 001-example-com.html
    ├── 002-arxiv-org.md
    ├── 002-arxiv-org.html
    └── ...

Agents

Agent	Model	Role
research-worker	sonnet	Searches the web, reads sources, extracts structured findings with citations
source-archiver	haiku	Archives URLs as markdown (WebFetch) and raw HTML (curl)

License

MIT