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id: "/ai-search-research-agents/intermediate/"
title: "AI search & research agents for intermediate learners"
url: "https://skillissue.dev/ai-search-research-agents/intermediate/"
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# AI search & research agents for intermediate learners

[Beginner](/ai-search-research-agents/beginner/index.md) [Intermediate](/ai-search-research-agents/intermediate/index.md) [Advanced](/ai-search-research-agents/advanced/index.md) [Expert](/ai-search-research-agents/expert/index.md)

28 resources · page 1 of 1

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### [AI-Scientist-v2](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/ai-scientist-v2/index.md)

by [Sakana AI](https://sakana.ai/)

Sakana AI-Scientist-v2 GitHub repo: agentic tree-search system for workshop-level automated science.

entity repo Japan en 

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### [Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time (VRT)](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/ebu-bbc-news-integrity-study-ai-assistants-misrepresent-news-45-of-the-time-vrt/index.md)

by [VRT](https://www.vrt.be/)

VRT summary of the EBU/BBC study finding AI assistants misrepresented news content in 45% of answers across 21 broadcasters.

entity benchmark EU (multi-country) en 

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### [@ExaAILabs (Exa)](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/exaailabs-official-x/index.md)

by [Exa](https://x.com/ExaAILabs)

X account of Exa: updates on its AI search engine and web search API for agents.

entity x-account US 

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### [GigaChat](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/gigachat/index.md)

by [Sber (GigaChat)](https://giga.chat/)

GigaChat: Sber's Russian-language AI assistant for answering questions, writing text and code and generating images.

entity company RU ru 

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### [@KagiHQ (Kagi)](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/kagihq-official-x/index.md)

by [Kagi](https://x.com/KagiHQ)

X account of Kagi: updates on its ad-free search engine, browser and AI assistant products.

entity x-account US 

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### [Kimi (search)](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/kimi-search/index.md)

by [Moonshot AI (Kimi)](https://www.moonshot.ai/)

Kimi: Moonshot AI's assistant for chat, search, agentic coding and knowledge work, built on its K-series models.

entity company CN zh 

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### [Metaso 秘塔AI搜索](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/metaso-ai/index.md)

by [Metaso (秘塔AI搜索)](https://metaso.cn/)

Metaso: Chinese ad-free AI search engine that returns cited answers.

entity company CN zh 

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### [Open Deep Research (LangChain)](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/open-deep-research-langchain/index.md)

by [LangChain](https://www.langchain.com)

LangChain open_deep_research GitHub repo: open-source deep research agent.

entity repo US en 

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### [@perplexity_ai (Perplexity)](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/perplexity-ai-official-x/index.md)

by [Perplexity](https://x.com/perplexity_ai)

X account of Perplexity: product updates for its AI answer engine and Comet browser.

entity x-account US 

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### [Perplexity GitHub](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/perplexity-github/index.md)

by [Perplexity](https://www.perplexity.ai/)

Perplexity GitHub organisation: open-source projects and SDKs from Perplexity.

entity org US en 

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### [@phindsearch (Phind)](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/phindsearch-official-x/index.md)

by [Phind](https://x.com/phindsearch)

X account of Phind: updates on its AI answer engine for technical questions.

entity x-account US 

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### [Scite](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/scite/index.md)

by [Scite](https://scite.ai/)

Scite: AI research tool searching scholarly articles and showing whether citations support or dispute claims.

entity company US en 

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### [SearXNG](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/searxng/index.md)

by [SearXNG.org](https://searxng.org)

SearXNG GitHub repo: free metasearch engine aggregating results from many search services.

entity repo US en 

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### [STORM (Stanford)](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/storm-stanford/index.md)

by [Stanford Open Virtual Assistant Lab](https://oval.cs.stanford.edu)

Stanford STORM GitHub repo: LLM system that researches a topic and writes a cited report.

entity repo US en 

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### [@tavilyai (Tavily)](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/tavilyai-official-x/index.md)

by [Tavily](https://x.com/tavilyai)

X account of Tavily: updates on its search API for AI agents.

entity x-account US 

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### [Undermind](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/undermind/index.md)

by [Undermind](https://undermind.ai/)

Undermind: AI literature-search tool that reads full papers and figures to find and cite relevant research.

entity company US en 

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### [Semantic Scholar Academic Graph API](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/academia-literature-review/index.md)

by [Ai2 (Semantic Scholar)](https://allenai.org/)

Semantic Scholar Academic Graph API: programmatic access to papers, authors and citations.

Intermediate–Advanced learning_resource docs en 

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### [Agentic Browser Security: Indirect Prompt Injection in Perplexity Comet (Brave)](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/brave-indirect-prompt-injection-in-perplexity-comet-2025-08-20/index.md)

by [Brave Software](https://brave.com/)

Brave post showing indirect prompt injection in Perplexity's Comet browser that exfiltrated email and one-time passwords.

Intermediate learning_resource guide US en 

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### [Brave Search API docs](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/brave-search-api-docs/index.md)

by [Brave](https://brave.com/)

Brave Search API documentation for querying Brave's independent web search index from applications.

Intermediate–Advanced learning_resource docs US en 

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### [Elicit help](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/elicit-help/index.md)

by [Elicit](https://elicit.com/)

Elicit Help Center: guides for using Elicit, the AI research assistant for literature review.

Intermediate–Advanced learning_resource docs US en 

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### [Exa blog](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/exa-blog/index.md)

by [Exa](https://exa.ai/)

Exa blog with research and engineering posts on neural web search for AI applications.

Intermediate learning_resource blog US en 

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### [Exa docs](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/exa-docs/index.md)

by [Exa](https://exa.ai/)

Exa documentation: web search API built for agents, with search, contents and answer endpoints.

Intermediate–Advanced learning_resource docs US en 

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### [Google Search blog (AI Mode)](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/google-search-blog-ai-mode/index.md)

by [Google](https://blog.google/)

Google Search blog with official announcements about Search features, including AI Overviews and AI Mode.

Intermediate learning_resource blog US en 

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### [Kagi docs](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/kagi-docs/index.md)

by [Kagi](https://kagi.com/)

Kagi Search help documentation: quick start, FAQs and features of the paid search engine and its AI tools.

Intermediate–Advanced learning_resource docs US en 

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### [Perplexity API documentation](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/perplexity-docs/index.md)

by [Perplexity](https://www.perplexity.ai/)

Perplexity API documentation for its search, agent, embeddings and related APIs with web-grounded answers.

Intermediate–Advanced learning_resource docs West en 

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### [PPC Land: Google's new guide for AI search, what SEO really needs now](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/ppc-land-google-s-new-guide-for-ai-search-what-seo-really-needs-now/index.md)

by [PPC Land](https://ppc.land/)

PPC Land article summarising Google's guide on optimising websites for generative AI features in Search.

Intermediate learning_resource blog EU/Global en 

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### [Tavily docs](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/tavily-docs/index.md)

by [Tavily](https://www.tavily.com/)

Tavily documentation: web search and extraction API built for AI agents.

Intermediate–Advanced learning_resource docs US en 

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### [You.com API docs](/agents/tool-use-and-mcp/you-com-api-docs/index.md)

by [You.com](https://you.com/)

You.com API documentation: real-time web search and research APIs for AI applications.

Intermediate–Advanced learning_resource docs US en 

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