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feat(skills): route deep-dive asks to TinyFish deep research - #62

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tinyfish-research only knew search + fetch passes, so "do deep research on X" ran manual passes even where TinyFish deep research exists. This adds a short Deep research runs section, aligned with the start_deep_research / get_deep_research / cancel_deep_research MCP tool descriptions in ux-labs (frontend/app/mcp/shared/research-tool-definitions.ts):

  • Search + fetch stay the default; quick-research guidance is unchanged.
  • Only explicit asks ("deep research", "deep dive", "comprehensive report", "cited report", "literature review", "survey", "landscape") start a run.
  • mode: deep by default, max only when the user asks for maximum depth.
  • One run per request, poll until done, never cancel for slowness, no silent swap between the two paths.

tinyfish-web gets a decision-table row. The CLI surface maps the three tools to tinyfish research run "<q>" --async --pretty, research run get <id> --pretty and research run cancel <id> (CLI 0.51+, flags from sdk/cli/src/commands/research.ts). --async is required: a foreground run streams for minutes and Ctrl+C cancels it.

Source edits are in skills/; grok/, pi/ and cli/skills/ are regenerated with make skills.

Routing

Ask Before (main) After (this PR)
"What year was X founded?" 1–2 searches 1–2 searches (unchanged)
Focused question, one angle One search + fetch pass One search + fetch pass (unchanged)
"Find everything about X" (no explicit deep research ask) Search passes / fan-out Search passes / fan-out (unchanged)
"Do deep research on X" / "deep dive" / "literature review" Manual search + fetch passes One start_deep_research run (deep), polled with get_deep_research
"Maximum depth / exhaustive report on X" Manual passes One run with mode: max
Deep research tools unavailable or run fails n/a Say so, offer search + fetch passes
CLI n/a tinyfish research run --async, then research run get <id>

Tests

  • node --test skills/build.test.mjs: 4/4 pass
  • make skills-check: clean after each commit
  • cd pi && node test/validate.mjs: all 6 checks pass

Evidence

Local ux-labs CLI build (0.51.0) against sandbox; sandbox key from Keychain, isolated HOME.

CLI commands as the skill prescribes them

$ tinyfish research run "Compare open-source vector databases for production RAG in 2026" --async --pretty
01a15c91-089f-7e33-a345-f9082cf26afb
$ tinyfish research run get 01a15c91-… --pretty
01a15c91-…  RUNNING  Compare open-source vector databases for production RAG in 2026
$ tinyfish research run list --pretty --limit 3
01a15c91-…  RUNNING    Compare open-source vector databases for production RAG in 2026
01a15c90-…  CANCELLED  Compare long-duration energy storage approaches in 2026
Next: --limit 3 --cursor …
$ tinyfish research run cancel 01a15c91-… --pretty
01a15c91-…  CANCELLED
$ tinyfish research run cancel 01a15c92-… --pretty      # repeat cancel is safe
01a15c92-…  CANCELLED (unchanged)
$ tinyfish research run get 01a15c29-… --pretty        # existing COMPLETED run
01a15c29-…  COMPLETED  Produce a comprehensive, cited, … comparison of five leading managed vector search services …
<report text>
[1] https://…   (75 numbered citations)
$ tinyfish research run "Lithium-sulfur battery commercialization outlook" --async --pretty   # after the sandbox daily quota was used up
{"error":"Today's Research limit has been reached. Please try again later.","status":429,"code":"DAILY_LIMIT_EXCEEDED"}   (exit 1)

Routing smoke test (claude -p, the generated cli/skills installed as project skills, no MCP servers, WebSearch/WebFetch off, tinyfish = local build)

Prompt Before (main) After (this PR)
"Which year was the Postgres project first released? Use TinyFish." Skill: tinyfish-research → tinyfish search query … → tinyfish fetch content get …/history.html; no research run Same three calls; no research run
"Do a deep research report on the state of solid-state battery commercialization. Use TinyFish." Pending: not run (sandbox research quota) Skill: tinyfish-research → tinyfish research run --async --mode deep "<scoped query>" (one run) → polled with tinyfish research run get <id>; no duplicate run; cancelled by hand to limit spend

Also seen in that run: the agent checked --help before its first research command (as the CLI section says), skipped --pretty, and tried research run watch. The follow-up commit now says not to use watch.

Pending: a fresh run --async happy-path start after the sandbox quota reset (2026-10-21T07:00Z), and the Before (main) deep-ask transcript.

For reviewers

  • Pi: pi/mcp.json directTools doesn't list the three deep research tools, and neither does pi/test/validate.mjs's KNOWN list. On pi they resolve only through the adapter's mcp({ search }) proxy, which the pi skill already teaches. Registering them directly means editing directTools, KNOWN and the README tool count, and possibly a pi version bump. I left that out of this PR.
  • On MCP, the research tools are listed only for some accounts. The skill says to report when they're missing rather than fall back silently.
  • After merge, ux-labs needs sdk/cli/scripts/sync-skill.sh to re-vendor cli/skills; the ux-labs CD drift guard fails until that lands.

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Explicit deep research asks now start one start_deep_research run and
poll get_deep_research; ordinary questions keep search + fetch. The CLI
surface maps the tools to `tinyfish research run --async` / `run get`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Research guidance across the shared, CLI, Grok, and Pi skills now covers explicit deep-research requests, mode selection, polling, citations, and failure handling. Web skill decision tables route cited deep-research requests to start_deep_research and get_deep_research. CLI guidance documents run operations, lost-ID recovery, and a minimum CLI version.

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The new deep-research guidance has inconsistencies. Some explicit deep-research requests may still be answered with ordinary search, the cost statement contradicts per-run billing, and the CLI version label is wrong. Fix these in the source skills and regenerate the derived copies before merging.

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Review comments at @skills/surfaces/cli.md:
- Around line 127-132: Update the CLI version labeling around the
start_deep_research, get_deep_research, and cancel_deep_research entries so they
are not presented as CLI 0.49 commands. Split these rows into a CLI
0.51-or-later section or use a generic header, while preserving the existing
requirement and upgrade guidance for tinyfish research.

Review comments at @skills/tinyfish-research/SKILL.md:
- Line 10: Update the free-cost statement in the skill documentation to apply
only to the search and fetch_content tools, removing the claim that depth never
costs money. Also update the corresponding web preamble to reflect that
deep-research runs are billed per run before regenerating the derived skills.
- Around line 22-29: Update the default-selection rule near start_deep_research
so explicit deep-research requests take precedence over ordinary-question
exclusions such as current news and compare X vs Y. Ensure qualifying phrases
like “deep research” and “comprehensive report” always initiate exactly one
deep-research run, while those exclusions remain applicable only when the
request is unqualified.

Review comments at @skills/tinyfish-web/SKILL.md:
- Line 18: Update the decision-table row for start_deep_research to list all
explicit triggers: “deep research,” “deep dive,” “comprehensive report,” “cited
report,” “literature review,” “survey,” and “landscape.” Then regenerate the
derived skills so they reflect the expanded trigger set.

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