🧠 Research Assistant Agent

A smart, tool-using research assistant powered by LangChain and OpenAI/Anthropic LLMs. It can search the web, extract information from Wikipedia, and save structured research summaries to a text file.

🚀 Features

• 🧾 Accepts a user query and returns a structured response with:
  • Topic
  • Summary
  • Sources
  • Tools used
• 🌐 Uses DuckDuckGo for web search
• 📚 Queries Wikipedia for relevant info
• 💾 Saves output to research_output.txt

🛠️ Tech Stack

• LangChain
• OpenAI GPT-4o
• Anthropic Claude (optional)
• Python 3.10+
• Pydantic
• Dotenv

📦 Installation

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/your-username/research-assistant-agent.git
   cd research-assistant-agent
   

2. Create a virtual environment

   python -m venv venv
   source venv/bin/activate   # On Windows: venv\Scripts\activate
   

3. Install dependencies

    pip install -r requirements.txt
   

4. Set up .env file

   OPENAI_API_KEY=your_openai_api_key
   ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=your_anthropic_api_key (optional)
   

🧪 Run the App

  python main.py

📁 File Structure

• main.py # Entry script
• tools.py # Web, Wikipedia, and file-saving tools
• requirements.txt # Dependencies
• research_output.txt # Saved outputs
• .env # API keys