Plan research, then parallelize fact verification

Goal

Goal: Have a coordinator decompose a question, bounded workers verify authoritative sources, and synthesize one report.

Steps

1. Give the coordinator a research question, output schema, and acceptance checklist; expose only web_search and web_fetch to workers. [plan]
2. Split the question into non-overlapping fact checks; require each worker to return structured findings with URLs and evidence. [plan]
3. Have the coordinator deduplicate, resolve conflicts, and synthesize; compare worker token/tool usage and cost with a single-agent baseline. [plan]

How to verify

Confirm each claim is traceable, subtopics cover the scope without duplication, and quality/cost is compared with the single-agent baseline.

Troubleshooting

If workers duplicate searches or conflict, narrow tasks and have the coordinator recheck primary sources; cap parallelism by budget.