Mole: New AI Agent Prioritizes Budget and Verifiable Citations
TL;DR. A new AI agent named Mole offers deep research capabilities from the terminal, emphasizing budget enforcement and verified claims. - Mole decomposes questions, searches, reads sources, extracts claims, and generates answers with checked citations. - It strictly enforces a pre-set budget for model calls and discards unverified claims lacking verbatim quotes from sources. - The tool runs locally, maintaining data privacy, and supports analysis of local files without cloud data transfer.
- Mole is a terminal-based deep research agent.
- It implements strict budget enforcement for all model calls.
- Claims are verified against sources, requiring verbatim quotes.
- Local data processing ensures privacy by keeping information on the user's machine.
- The agent speaks MCP, allowing coding agents to drive its research functions.