---
slug: "DeepResearch"
name: "DeepResearch"
type: "Reasoning"
layer: "Mind"
ref: "DeepResearch#2e2b"
sema_id: "sema:DeepResearch#mh:SHA-256:2e2ba9173185caffc282ebbbaad3c5717a3720f8b6e3625dc1b13f166e481879"
tags: ["Mind","Reasoning"]
updated: 2026-11-11
mindscape: "bootstrap"
index_url: https://mindscape.pages.dev/bootstrap/index.json
url: https://mindscape.pages.dev/bootstrap/DeepResearch/
related: ["CognitiveBias","Deep","Discover","RetrievalAugment","Synthesis"]
---

# DeepResearch

Plan-search-synthesize-report research pipeline

Layer: Mind · Category: Reasoning

## Mechanism

An autonomous research pipeline with four stages: (1) Planning - decompose query into research questions, (2) Multi-Round Search - iteratively search, identify gaps, refine queries, (3) [Synthesis](https://mindscape.pages.dev/bootstrap/Synthesis.md) - integrate findings across sources, resolve contradictions, (4) Report - generate an analytical report with citations. Loops between search and synthesis until a round surfaces nothing new or the round bound is reached. Chains [Discover](https://mindscape.pages.dev/bootstrap/Discover.md) for breadth and [RetrievalAugment](https://mindscape.pages.dev/bootstrap/RetrievalAugment.md) for depth, orchestrated by [Deep](https://mindscape.pages.dev/bootstrap/Deep.md).

## Invariants

- Findings are synthesized across sources that do not derive from one another.
- More than one search round; the value is in the gap-detection between them.
- Every claim in the report names the sources it rests on.
- The loop ends on a dry round or the round bound, and which one is recorded.

## Preconditions

- Access to external knowledge base
- A question that one source cannot settle

## Postconditions

- A report in which each claim names its sources
- The reason the loop stopped is recorded

## Failure modes

- Source [CognitiveBias](https://mindscape.pages.dev/bootstrap/CognitiveBias.md): Over-relying on first sources found.
- [Synthesis](https://mindscape.pages.dev/bootstrap/Synthesis.md) Hallucination: Inventing connections not in sources.
- Premature Closure: Stopping search before finding contradicting evidence.

## Signature

- `Deep(Discover)`

## Builds on

- [CognitiveBias](https://mindscape.pages.dev/bootstrap/CognitiveBias.md) (Infrastructure; References)
- [Deep](https://mindscape.pages.dev/bootstrap/Deep.md) (Mind; References)
- [Discover](https://mindscape.pages.dev/bootstrap/Discover.md) (Society; References)
- [RetrievalAugment](https://mindscape.pages.dev/bootstrap/RetrievalAugment.md) (Mind; References)
- [Synthesis](https://mindscape.pages.dev/bootstrap/Synthesis.md) (Mind; References)

## Used by

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## Identity

- Sema ID: `sema:DeepResearch#mh:SHA-256:2e2ba9173185caffc282ebbbaad3c5717a3720f8b6e3625dc1b13f166e481879`
- Ref: `DeepResearch#2e2b`
- Supersedes:
  - `sema:DeepResearch#mh:SHA-256:cbe339d17080d67469ea0b220f5142dc63862ea423da4a2253a89011696e1f8d`
  - `sema:DeepResearch#mh:SHA-256:a0583250bce8e627c58247bd2dba4de9d9fb9ffabf0a36c66eceb7ddebee4577`
  - `sema:DeepResearch#mh:SHA-256:52e2fdc1ac8c86d03f7ef1fb0c85eb3903d8c5f3769af094a61e6f028055ce0b`
  - `sema:DeepResearch#mh:SHA-256:c1f1dad991731eb1bbdef71a9fe0d7f81f96fec9acd4bee43419f800a67d4f92`

## Links

- [Pattern page](https://mindscape.pages.dev/bootstrap/DeepResearch/)
- [View in the interactive graph](https://mindscape.pages.dev/bootstrap/#DeepResearch)
- [JSON](https://mindscape.pages.dev/bootstrap/DeepResearch.json)
- [Index of all patterns](https://mindscape.pages.dev/bootstrap/index.json)