Add Parallel Responses research subagent plugin for DeepSeek Harness - #42
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What this adds
We're adding a
parallel_researchtool to DeepSeek Harness.Think of
web_searchas asking for useful pages to look through.parallel_researchis more like asking a research assistant to look into a question and come back with an answer and the sources behind it.The two tools work side by side. The agent can still use
web_searchwhen it wants to inspect search results itself, or useparallel_researchwhen it wants to hand off the research.How it works
The agent sends a complete question to
parallel_research. We pass it to the Parallel Responses API and return the cited answer to the agent, which decides what to do next.The agent can also ask several independent questions at the same time. DeepSeek Harness already manages those tool calls, so we leave scheduling and concurrency limits to it.
Research depth can be set to
low,medium, orhigh.mediumis the default.lowis useful when a problem can be split into smaller questions and researched in parallel.Only the delegated question and the plugin's fixed research instructions are sent to Parallel. Conversation history, local files, workspace state, and other tools are not included automatically.
Why this is useful
An agent should not have to run every search, read every page, and piece together every answer itself. It can hand a question to a research specialist, get back a useful answer with sources, and stay focused on the larger task.
The package is not published to npm yet, so the README explains how to install it from a local tarball. An npm organization owner still needs to complete the first release.