ResearchForge — Multi-Agent Research Orchestration over Shared Blackboard

ResearchForge is an autonomous deep research orchestrator where four specialized agents—Planner, Researcher, Critic, and Writer—collaborate opportunistically over a shared Blackboard knowledge repository.

Blackboard Collaboration Flow

                  ┌───────────────────────────────┐
                  │       SHARED BLACKBOARD       │
                  │  • Research Hypotheses        │
                  │  • Evidence Passage Ledger    │
                  │  • Sufficiency Scores         │
                  │  • Contradiction Matrix       │
                  └───────────────▲───────────────┘
                                  │
          ┌───────────────┬───────┴───────┬───────────────┐
          │               │               │               │
  [Planner Agent] [Researcher Agent] [Critic Agent] [Writer Agent]
   Decomposes      Retrieves       Audits for      Synthesizes
   questions into  evidence from   gaps, bias, &   cited markdown
   sub-hypotheses  corpus          contradictions  research report

Usage

# Run research orchestration on custom topic
python -m mara --topic "Productivity impacts of asynchronous communication"

Tests

pytest tests/ -v