ResearchAgent · AI Tinkerers Singapore · 10 Oct 2026Code on GitHub ↗
Explainers

A research agent with a wallet.

It answers from free sources first. When the missing piece sits behind a paywall, it can buy one article straight from the writer, inside a budget you set. Four ways in, from a two-minute replay to the full system map and the build log.

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Inside ResearchAgent

Replays a real run from its event log: free search, a purchase, a proof that fails, an on-chain refund, then a second buy that answers the question.

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The talk

Slide deck

The AI Tinkerers deck. Boxes on the architecture slide open the project map.

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Architecture

Project map

Three clickable levels, from the reader's agent, the writers and the ledger down to the primitives. Every arrow is numbered and explained.

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Build log

How it evolved

39 days in charts: commits, pull requests, coding-agent prompts and tokens, replayed from git, GitHub and the agents' own logs.

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