Scholar Deep Research

End-to-end academic research workflow that turns a question into a cited, structured report. Built for depth: multi-source federation, transparent ranking, citation chasing, and a mandatory self-critique pass before the report ships.

When to use

Explicit triggers: "literature review", "research report", "state of the art", "survey the field", "what's known about X", "deep research on Y", "systematic review", "scoping review", "compare papers on Z".

Proactive triggers (use without being asked):

• User asks a factual question whose honest answer is "it depends on the literature"
• User frames a research plan and needs the background section
• User is drafting a paper intro/related-work and hasn't yet scoped prior work
• User proposes a method and asks whether it's novel

Do not use when: a single known paper answers the question, the user wants a tutorial (not a survey), or they're debugging code.

Guiding principles

1. Scripts over vibes. Every search, dedupe, rank, and export step runs through a script in scripts/. The same input should produce the same output. Do not improvise ranking or counting by eye.