Add a Specialized Deep Research Skill to Agent Harnesses | NVIDIA Technical Blog

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Introduced NVIDIA AI-Q as a specialized deep research skill for agent harnesses. This skill enables agents to delegate complex research tasks (multi-document synthesis, decision briefs, long-horizon analysis with source attribution) to a local or hosted AI-Q server, receiving structured reports with citations. The integration supports various MCP authentication scenarios (no per-user auth, backend/app credentials, forwarding bearer tokens) and allows AI-Q to run in diverse environments (developer laptop, Kubernetes, air-gapped data centers) while keeping sensitive data within controlled environments. The AI-Q pipeline is engineered for research quality, comprising intent classification, clarification, shallow research, deep research, and evaluation stages.