What is GLChat DeepResearch?
GLChat DeepResearch is an experience-layer pipeline that defines product behavior for deep research in GLChat.
As an experience-layer pipeline, it is responsible for:
Interpreting user intent and research requirements
Applying product-level settings (profiles, configurations)
Preparing results for presentation in the chat UI
Handling user experience concerns (progress, citations, formatting)
What it does NOT do: Backend execution, infrastructure management, or reasoning design (these are delegated to lower layers).
Responsibilities
1. Pre-processing
Gathers and prepares context (attachments, conversation history, memory)
Interprets user intent and research requirements
Determines if deep research is needed or if normal generation suffices
2. Profile Selection and Resolution
Applies the user's selected profile and resolves to the appropriate backend implementation:
Essentials
OpenAI Deep Research
Fast, cost-effective, concise
Comprehensive
Parallel AI
Thorough, expensive, comprehensive
Internal
OpenAI + Google Drive
Internal data access
3. Research Execution
Invokes the appropriate DeepResearcher component (SDK layer) with prepared inputs.
4. Post-processing
Structures research results for chat presentation
Formats citations and references
Applies product-level policies before delivery
Pipeline Flow
Related Components
GLChat DeepResearch depends on two other layers in the deep research architecture. This section provides a brief overview; see their respective documentation for details.
GL SDK DeepResearcher
GL SDK DeepResearcher is a library-level SDK abstraction that provides a unified, backend-agnostic interface for executing deep research.
What it does:
Exposes consistent research
()interface across all providersHandles streaming, events, and result structuring
Hides backend differences from pipelines
Implementations used by GLChat DeepResearch:
OpenAIDeepResearcher— For Essentials and Internal profilesParallelDeepResearcher— For Comprehensive profile
📚 For more details: GL SDK DeepResearcher Documentation
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