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title: Research Agent Spawning
category: Projects
project: Research Agents
type: System Design
status: in-progress
date: 2026-02-25
tags: [agents, research, spawning, sub-agents, architecture]
source_file: memory/projects/research-agents.md
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# Research Agent Spawning

## Overview
System for spawning isolated sub-agents to handle research tasks asynchronously

## Status
🔄 **In Progress** — Designing spawn and report workflows

## Goals
- Spawn sub-agents for independent research tasks
- Parallel execution for multiple research queries
- Automatic summarization and reporting back
- Resource management (don't overwhelm system)

## Architecture Ideas

### Option 1: Cron-Based Research
- Spawn agents via cron jobs
- Results delivered via Discord
- Good for: scheduled research, news monitoring

### Option 2: On-Demand Spawning
- User triggers: "/research [topic]"
- Spawns isolated session
- Reports back when complete
- Good for: deep dives, ad-hoc questions

### Option 3: Persistent Research Channel
- Dedicated Discord channel
- All research requests go there
- Agent monitors and spawns workers
- Good for: continuous research, collaborative

## Current Exploration
Testing in <#1468257895152881796> channel

## Questions to Answer
- [ ] How many concurrent agents?
- [ ] How to handle long-running research?
- [ ] Where to store results? (Obsidian? SQLite?)
- [ ] How to prevent spawn loops?
- [ ] Cost tracking per agent?

## Related
- [[Multi-User Agent Architecture]] — multi-user considerations
- [[Memory System]] — where research results might go

## Next Steps
- [ ] Test basic spawning mechanism
- [ ] Design result reporting workflow
- [ ] Document resource limits

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*Created: 2026-02-25*