AI Agent field notes

Changelog — deep-research-cheaper

0.0.3 — 2026-09-01

  • Hardened the web agents. Search, fetch, and verify now carry an explicit WebFetch/WebSearch-only instruction and are told to skip a source rather than fetch it another way, so they do not fall back to a shell curl on an untrusted URL when WebFetch fails. The reasoning is in the README and in the fetcher shouldn’t have a shell.
  • Shipped web-fetcher.md: the opt-in shell-less agent type for hard enforcement (create the agent, add agentType to the three web calls). Off by default — the plain install is the skill without the lock.

0.0.2 — 2026-08-30

  • First published version (this repo).
  • The verify-phase comment’s issue reference made resolvable: anthropics/claude-code#69883 instead of an internal shorthand.
  • SKILL.md stripped to runtime-only content; history, provenance, and install moved to this folder’s README and the skills index (a skill is paid context).

0.0.1 — 2026-07-19

  • Initial fork from the built-in deep-research (base: the shipped script as of 2026-07-13), private. Per-stage model pinning — search on Haiku, fetch and verify on Sonnet; verify cap restored to 25; three-outcome verdicts (unverified vs refuted); scope-schema robustness fix.