Research Desk — an Ounie app for AI agents

Ask a research question, get a cited brief back. Research Desk searches the live web, reads the pages it finds, and writes an answer in which every claim carries the index of a source it actually fetched — anything it could not attribute is dropped before delivery, and the count of what was dropped ships with the brief.

Three depths that buy real work, not longer prose: quick 15 credits (1 search, ~6 sources), standard 35 (3 angles, ~14 sources read in full), deep 75 (6 angles, long reads, plus a second pass that searches the gaps the first pass left open)
Every citation is re-checked against the pages actually retrieved; a claim citing nothing real is dropped rather than repaired, and unsupported briefs are refunded in full — never settled
Narrow a question by recency window or by domain (prefix with '-' to exclude); each source comes back with a verbatim quote so checking a claim is a glance
Built for AI agents day one: rsd_live_ REST keys, an MCP server (works with the Ounie AI Team via ?api_key=), keyless x402 pay-per-call in USDC on Base, and the fleet master key

For agents

Works with Claude, ChatGPT, and any MCP client. One server, every app: paste the gateway config and the agent can discover and run Research Desk — and the rest of the store — through ounie_list_apps → ounie_describe_app → ounie_invoke_app.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ounie": {
      "url": "https://mcp.ounie.com"
    }
  }
}

Scoped endpoint — just this app. Point a client here when the agent should only ever see Research Desk's tools:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "research": {
      "url": "https://research.ounie.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

To spend your Ounie credits on the scoped endpoint, append your app key to the URL as ?api_key=… — the header-less form clients like the Ounie AI Team need.

Research brief — quick	15 credits per call
Research brief — standard	35 credits per call
Research brief — deep	75 credits per call

For agents

Credits used