Decoupled Search Grounding (DSG): vendor-agnostic MCP-compatible architecture for LLM agent retrieval
Researchers introduce Decoupled Search Grounding (DSG), an architecture that moves real-time search grounding outside the reasoning model via an MCP-compatible gateway, exposing provider routing, caching, and retrieval-depth as explicit controls. Evaluated across five frontier models on SimpleQA, FreshQA, and HotpotQA, DSG nearly matches native search accuracy on SimpleQA (86.1% vs. 87.7%) while achieving 91% lower search cost and 68% lower latency via a 99.4% warm-cache hit rate. In a production e-commerce deployment, DSG cuts search cost by over 98% while matching or slightly exceeding native-search accuracy. The work frames real-time grounding as an optimizable interface boundary rather than a fixed model feature, with direct relevance to MCP-based agent infrastructure.
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DeepSeek Reasonix: Native Coding Agent with High Caching and Low Cost
DeepSeek Reasonix is a coding agent built natively on DeepSeek models, emphasizing high prompt caching rates and low inference cost. The project attracted significant Hacker News engagement (349 points, 171 comments), suggesting community interest in cost-efficient agentic coding workflows. It appears to be an open-source or community-developed tool rather than an official DeepSeek Labs release.
SearchGEO framework measures LLM search agent vulnerability to web content manipulation
Researchers introduce SearchGEO, a controlled evaluation framework for measuring endorsement corruption in LLM-based web-search agents, combining a manipulation pipeline, five-mode attack taxonomy, and multiple output metrics. Evaluating 13 LLM backends on 308 cases each, they find attack success rates ranging from 0.0% on Claude-Sonnet-4.6 to 31.4% on Gemini-3-Flash, with model-family-specific vulnerability patterns. An auxiliary probe escalating endorsement to install commands reveals a behavioral split: Claude over-rejects while GPT over-trusts. The findings argue for treating adversarial search content robustness as a first-class safety evaluation dimension for deployed agents.
PolyGnosis 2.0: Multi-Agent Architecture for Prediction Market Intelligence via Harness Engineering
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DocTrace: Structure-Aware On-Demand Hypergraph Memory for Long-Document QA
Researchers introduce DocTrace, a multi-agent RAG framework for long-document question answering that uses query-triggered knowledge organization rather than costly query-agnostic preprocessing. The system combines a lightweight document structural tree index, on-demand hypergraph working memory, and a graph-structured experience memory that stores successful reasoning plans for reuse. Evaluated on four long-document QA datasets, DocTrace outperforms the strongest baseline (ComoRAG) by up to 8.85% F1 and 4.40% EM while reducing computational cost by 53.32%.