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Building Deep Research Agents (SciPy Practice Session)

A hands-on MIT session teaching attendees to build a working research agent that queries a Zotero citation library, summarizes literature, and handles multi-turn follow-up questions.

Thu, Jul 9, 9:30 PMMIT Building E51 · Cambridge · MA

Why it matters

It's a condensed, bring-your-laptop version of a full SciPy workshop, covering prompt design, memory, and MCP tool integration end to end rather than just slides.

The tokenmaxxing angle

Building a multi-turn research agent surfaces exactly the cost tradeoffs tokenmaxxing readers care about: how much context and tool-calling overhead a working MCP-based agent burns per query.

From the organizers

Held at MIT Building E51 on July 9, led by organizer Ben Batorsky with setup instructions published at github.com/ericmjl/build-deep-research-agent; sponsored by NumFOCUS.