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Show HN: Building a Deep Research Agent Using MCP-Agent


“Learn how MCP-Agent powers Deep Research Agents with simple orchestration, external memory, and scalable workflows. Open-source on GitHub.”

Documenting my journey building a general-purpose deep research agent powered by MCP, and sharing the valuable (and sometimes painful) lessons learned along the way. So I set out to build an open source general purpose agent that can work like Claude Code for complex tasks, including deep research, but also multi-step workflows that require making MCP tool calls. I started debugging the queries where the Orchestrator outperformed my Adaptive Workflow and unlocked a key insight: simpler architecture consistently wins.

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