Research Workflow on Mohammad Movahedi

From Idea to First Draft: An End-to-End Walkthrough

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

You have a research question. You have a research team (5 specialized agents). Now what?

This post walks through a complete workflow from idea to polished first draft. You will see what agents do, where humans intervene, what surprises appear, and how the team navigates them.

We will use a real research question: How do household evacuation decisions integrate social networks and behavioral heterogeneity?

Phase 1: Setup (Day 0)

Step 1: Define the scope

You sit down with a clear research question:

The Literature Scout Agent: Systematic Paper Search

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Literature Scout’s job sounds simple: find papers. In practice, it is the most consequential agent on your team. If the Scout misses papers, the rest of the team never sees them. Everything downstream is incomplete.

This post is about building a Scout that is exhaustive, systematic, and reliable.

The Scout’s challenge

A typical researcher manually searches:

Google Scholar: "evacuation behavior"
Google Scholar: "disaster evacuation"
Google Scholar: "agent-based evacuation"

Then stops, satisfied they have found “the papers.” But they have missed:

Designing Your Research Team: Agent Roles and Coordination

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Once you decide to use agents for research, the next question is immediate: what should each agent do?

The temptation is to build one big “research agent” that does everything. That is a mistake. A research team is useful precisely because it is specialized. Each agent does one thing well. They coordinate through shared knowledge.

This post is about designing that team: what roles make sense, how they specialize, how they coordinate, and when to merge or split roles.