| name | productionos-deep-research |
| description | 8-phase autonomous research pipeline with multi-source discovery, 4-layer citation verification, hypothesis generation, and PIVOT/REFINE/PROCEED decision loops. Confidence-gated — loops until 95%+ confidence. |
| argument-hint | [topic, depth, or source mix] |
productionos-deep-research
Use this alias when you want the same workflow through a top-level Codex-safe name without the productionos: namespace.
Overview
Use this as the Codex-first research workflow for ProductionOS. It should take a topic, break it into concrete research questions, gather and verify sources, synthesize competing hypotheses, and only deliver claims that are evidence-backed.
Source references:
.claude/commands/deep-research.md
scripts/arxiv-scraper.sh
Inputs
topic: required research question or area
depth: quick, standard, deep, or exhaustive
sources: arxiv, web, docs, or all
Codex Workflow
- Scope the topic into 3-5 specific research questions.
- Discover sources appropriate to the selected depth.
- Verify sources before trusting them.
- title and author sanity
- direct relevance
- source quality
- Synthesize the evidence.
- consensus
- contradictions
- missing information
- Generate competing hypotheses and select the best-supported one.
- If confidence is still low, refine the search instead of bluffing.
Expected Output
- research questions
- verified source set
- synthesis with contradictions called out
- selected hypothesis with confidence
- explicit unknowns
Guardrails
- do not present weakly supported claims as facts
- prefer primary sources when available
- if confidence stays low, say so and stop rather than pretending certainty