Deep Research

Produce thorough, cited research reports from multiple web sources using firecrawl and exa MCP tools.

When to Activate

• User asks to research any topic in depth
• Competitive analysis, technology evaluation, or market sizing
• Due diligence on companies, investors, or technologies
• Any question requiring synthesis from multiple sources
• User says "research", "deep dive", "investigate", or "what's the current state of"

MCP Requirements

At least one of:

• firecrawl — firecrawl_search, firecrawl_scrape, firecrawl_crawl
• exa — web_search_exa, web_search_advanced_exa, crawling_exa

Both together give the best coverage. Configure in ~/.claude.json or ~/.codex/config.toml.