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Deep technical research via the research-gateway MCP โ agentic Tavily + Context7 + page-fetch with cross-verification, returns a cited markdown report
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| name | research |
| description | Deep technical research via the research-gateway MCP โ agentic Tavily + Context7 + page-fetch with cross-verification, returns a cited markdown report |
The standalone research-gateway service (Elysia + Bun on the VPS, Tailscale-only) runs the agentic loop on IU models, off Max. It uses an async job contract (mirrors sideclaw's check/review): submit โ wait โ read. No single call blocks for the whole run, so long/deep research can't trip the MCP HTTP transport's ~60s first-byte timeout.
Submit. Call mcp__research-gateway__research with query set to the user's question, optionally depth (quick | standard | deep, default standard). It returns IMMEDIATELY with { jobId, status } โ not the report. Note the jobId; do not treat this response as the answer.
Wait. Call mcp__research-gateway__job_wait({ jobId }). It blocks up to ~50s (with progress heartbeats) and returns the job state. If stillRunning is true, call job_wait again with the same jobId โ loop until stillRunning is false. (job_status({ jobId }) is a non-blocking peek if you want to do other work between checks.)
Read the result. When status is done, the result field (also structuredContent) is a ResearchReport:
report โ narrative, cited answer in markdowncitations โ [{ claim, url, confidence }], each key claim tied to a source, carrying the researching worker's high | medium | low confidence in that specific claimsources โ deduplicated list of all URLs consultedunverified โ [{ topic, url, reason }], things the run could NOT confirm against a source (unreachable, paywalled, thin). Empty on a clean run.Read confidence and unverified before passing a claim on. A citation only means a worker tied that claim to that URL โ it is not proof the page supports it. Treat low confidence and anything in unverified as a lead to check, not a fact; for a crisp value (version number, EOL date, API signature) where the report names a primary source, opening that source directly is a cheap confirmation.
On done, the text content already inlines the report plus a Citations and Sources section, so text-only clients still get the full picture. When status is error, error holds the failure message.
Depth: quick = fast, snippet-level; standard (default) balances quality and speed; deep = most thorough but slowest. Submit is instant at every depth โ only the number of job_wait loops grows with depth, so deep is now safe to use. If the gateway is at capacity, research returns an error (isError) โ retry shortly.