Creating My Own Deep Research Solution

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Dillemma

The deep research tools I tried never quite gave me what I wanted. They produced polished summaries, but when I asked “how do you know this?” the answer was nowhere in the report, so I set out to build a system whose work I could poke at, trace, and argue with instead of a summary I had to take on faith.

That system is a deep research skill I built on Hermes, the AI agent I run in an isolated VM on dedicated hardware as my personal assistant. The first versions worked, but they still did not meet the standard I care about, so I kept iterating for the last few months, and only recently has the output reached the point where I genuinely like the reports it hands me (I have even shared some with friends to get some extra opinions). This post is how it works, told the way I came to understand it, one mechanism at a time, and it ends with the checks you can run yourself on any finished report.

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Creating My Own Deep Research Solution

The Dillemma