Deep agents take simple LLM-plus-tool loops and turn them into real planners—rather than just firing off queries and hoping for the best, they map out multi-step strategies, dig deep into topics and carry complex tasks through to completion over longer time frames. Shallow agents, by contrast, tend to run in circles and fall apart once the job gets tricky.
You’re already seeing them crop up in two hot areas: deep research (hello, OpenAI’s Deep Research) and coding helpers like Claude Code and Manus. They’re all about trading quick hits for sustained, goal-driven collaboration with AI.
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