- Who
- Academics who want a complete, reviewed first draft — not just an answer. If you have a topic and an idea of the paper you wish existed but do not want to assemble the literature, write the synthesis, and self-critique it by hand, this is your starting point.
- What you can do
- Research (the page is labeled "Hermes Research Agent") runs one automated 10-stage pipeline that turns a topic into a full manuscript — drafted, fact-checked against its sources, and critiqued by four reviewer personas.
- You give it a topic and, ideally, a short abstract of the paper you want; it refines your question, plans a search, searches the literature and synthesizes a draft, runs a citation-integrity gate, has four personas review it, revises accordingly, optionally lengthens it to ~6,000 words, and hands you a final draft you can download as Markdown.
- This is the "do the whole thing" mode — distinct from Search (quick cited answers to a single question) and Write (hands-on section-by-section editing of an existing draft).
- At the top of the page, the Domain corpus builder does the opposite of a single search: give it a topic and a size (10, 20, or 50 papers) and, in one background run, it curates research perspectives, searches all the providers, saves the new papers to your Library, fetches their open-access PDFs, and refreshes your concept graph — so a whole area becomes searchable, writable, and debatable at once. Papers whose PDF cannot be fetched stay as metadata with the "Not searchable yet" badge.
- Where it lives
- The "Research" item in the left sidebar (frontend/src/app/research/page.tsx). The Domain corpus builder panel sits at the top; the Result area below has four tabs: Final draft, Review, Pipeline log, and Run history.
- When to use it
- When you want a finished, defensible draft rather than a quick lookup — kicking off a new paper, a literature-grounded position piece, or a first synthesis you will then polish. A run typically takes 5–12 minutes, so it is a "start it and step away" task.
- Why it exists
- A good synthesis paper normally means reading widely, drafting, checking every citation, and inviting critique — days of work. Research compresses that into one supervised pass and does the parts people skip: it verifies each claim is actually supported by its cited source (the integrity gate) and stress-tests the argument from four reviewer viewpoints before you ever see it.