hyperresearch vs prime-agent
Deep-research harness for Claude Code: a 16-step, tier-adaptive pipeline with adversarial critics, cite-checking and 250+ sources per run, every source kept in a persistent markdown+SQLite vault. — versus — Self-improving coding/research agent around a Recursive Language Model: persistent IPython as the core tool, programmatic subagents, durable harness state it refines via evidence-backed /refine.
Both are self-improving research agents that keep state across sessions; prime-agent centers an RLM + IPython, hyperresearch a fixed adversarial pipeline inside Claude Code.
| hyperresearch | prime-agent | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 3.4k | 21k |
| Forks | 336 | 2.3k |
| Language | Python | TypeScript |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Last activity | 7 days ago | 2 days ago |
| Topics | agents, rag, skills | coding, agents |
| Curated connections | 5 | 6 |
hyperresearch — the curator's take
The most serious open deep-research pipeline you can run inside Claude Code: width sweep, contradiction graph, parallel depth investigators, four adversarial critics and a tool-locked patcher that can only apply surgical edits. Scholarly search fans out to OpenAlex/Crossref/CORE/EDGAR/FRED and it fetches legal OA full-text for paywalled papers instead of citing abstracts. Use it for reports you would otherwise pay a research analyst for; the vault means the second run on a topic starts warm. Not for quick lookups - even the 5-step fast path is minutes and the full pipeline is 30 min to hours of Claude Code time, plus your Max quota. Locked to Claude Code (uses the Skill tool for step loading); last30days-skill is the fast social-signal alternative, openresearcher is the trained-model route.
prime-agent — the curator's take
The two abstractions are genuinely different: context as variables in a persistent REPL (not a transcript), and a harness that rewrites its own supplemental state with rollback — the closest thing to a shipping continual-learning agent. Daemon sessions and agent-to-agent messaging make it a long-horizon tool, not a chat CLI. When NOT: it's a full worldview — you adopt the RLM way or fight it; young codebase moving fast, and self-improvement means your harness drifts from everyone else's.