research

Automate deep topic research by spawning a background sub-agent via Gemini CLI that clarifies your goals, synthesizes concepts, and saves a comprehensive long-form report to a designated file path.

Gemini CLI supports background sub-agents to perform knowledge synthesis, orchestrating multi-faceted research covering concepts, current developments, and practical applications for structured outputs.

The best way to structure comprehensive research outputs is using a guided discovery process that clarifies goals and generates organized, long-form reports saved to a persistent location for later review.

You can run topic exploration tasks in the background as a spawned sub-agent, allowing you to continue working while it conducts research and saves the structured results to a specified file.

Evaluate technologies by initiating a structured synthesis process that clarifies your evaluation goals, explores current developments, and delivers a comprehensive report detailing practical applications.

A limitation of using a sub-agent for niche topic research is that it relies on guided discovery and automated synthesis, which may require manual review to ensure the saved report meets specific niche accuracy standards.