Research Agents
Source Evaluation and Credibility Scoring for AI Agents
Sana Ibrahim
Columnist · · 11 min read
Research agents need loops, not one-shot retrieval, to handle ambiguous questions and live data.
Research agents dig deeper but cost more; answer engines are fast and cheap.
How agentic design patterns break down when your agent's tools hit live web data.
Prioritized queues, domain affinity, and deduplication keep crawlers fast and polite at scale.
Agents can't see when cached data expires, turning stale information into silent failures at scale.
Detect what actually matters before you scrape, or drown in noise.