deep research · claude code primitives
founder/ research/ agent
An end-to-end research pipeline built from nothing but subagents , one skill , and one MCP . Press play to watch a single run move down the tiers — no orchestration code, no SDK.
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Press play to watch the founder's data flow down the pipeline, tier by tier.
INPUT
research [a founder]
lead agent · CLAUDE.md — routes every tier · Task · Bash · Read
01
IDENTITY CHECK
CONDITIONAL · MCP: parallel_search
identity-checker
HAIKU
resolves ambiguous names — e.g. Alexander Wang
(Scale AI) vs. the designer — waits for your pick
02
SOURCE RESEARCH
PARALLEL ×4 · MCP: parallel_search
biography
books & biographies
HAIKU
wikipedia
facts & chronology
HAIKU
news
media & events
HAIKU
social
interviews & posts
HAIKU
files/{founder}/source_research/
03
CATEGORY ANALYSIS
PARALLEL ×4 · reads source_research/
career
roles · founding · exits
SONNET
financial
valuations · net worth
SONNET
personal-dev
skills · mentors · growth
SONNET
verification
cross-check · confidence
SONNET
files/{founder}/analysis/
04
ENHANCE & INTEGRATE
SEQUENTIAL ×2
context-enhancer
SONNET
adds historical & causal context
→ enhancement/context.md
integration-agent
SONNET
builds one timeline with Life Phases
→ integration/timeline.md
05
VISUALIZATION PLANNING
SEQUENTIAL
visualization-planner
SONNET
reads Life Phases + the 400-word image ceiling,
then splits the timeline into 2–6 cohesive frames
06
IMAGE GENERATION
PARALLEL ×N · SKILL: timeline-visualization
image-gen
→ frame 1
HAIKU
image-gen
→ frame 2
HAIKU
image-gen
→ frame N
HAIKU
swap
OPTIONAL SWAP
skill → Higgsfield MCP
no AI-SDK · no key in cwd
files/{founder}/output/*.png
07
REPORT
SEQUENTIAL · FINAL
report-writer
OPUS
the only Opus call — embeds every image, writes
the phase narrative, synthesizes the final document
OUTPUT
report.md + timeline images
$4.89 a run · haiku $0.25 — the researchers · sonnet $1.80 — the analysis · opus $2.84 — the report. you pay for prose where prose is the product.
three primitives, any harness · .claude/agents/ (subagents) · .claude/skills/ (timeline-visualization) · .mcp.json (parallel_search)