Agent run #108

research_ladder success manual

claude-haiku-4-5 · started 2026-09-29T16:52:46 · finished 2026-09-29T16:53:31

Steps

Tool calls

Input tokens

27076

Output tokens

968

Cost

$0.0480

Input summary

NVDA L1: 4 scans plus the internal fact pack

Final memo

Short report for NVIDIA Corporation written from 4 scans and the fact pack; every section landed.

Reasoning trace — step-by-step, tool calls inline

Step 1 tool_use 995 in / 343 out · 19.7s

Scan — Recent developments (30d): the month's items were the quarter and routine coverage; nothing in them moved the standing read.

→ perplexity_search 2.00s

Tool input

{
  "query": "NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA) recent developments (30d)",
  "topic": "recent"
}

Result

{
  "snippets": 8,
  "source_key": "pplx:24663:800730538654",
  "sources_kept": 3
}

Step 2 tool_use 8002 in / 267 out · 16.5s

Scan — Competition & industry: the peer set is small and scaled; the differentiator is the installed base and the switching cost that comes with it.

→ perplexity_search 1.72s

Tool input

{
  "query": "NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA) competition \u0026 industry",
  "topic": "competition"
}

Result

{
  "snippets": 8,
  "source_key": "pplx:24663:586688879381",
  "sources_kept": 3
}

Step 3 tool_use 6268 in / 205 out · 13.2s

Scan — Guidance & consensus: the consensus sits a little above the company's own framework; the gap is the growth the market is paying for.

→ perplexity_search 5.27s

Tool input

{
  "query": "NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA) guidance \u0026 consensus",
  "topic": "guidance"
}

Result

{
  "snippets": 6,
  "source_key": "pplx:24663:415660568737",
  "sources_kept": 3
}

Step 4 tool_use 5461 in / 507 out · 23.4s

Scan — Events & catalysts: the next scheduled item is the quarterly report; the rest of the calendar is industry events.

→ perplexity_search 2.65s

Tool input

{
  "query": "NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA) events \u0026 catalysts",
  "topic": "catalysts"
}

Result

{
  "snippets": 6,
  "source_key": "pplx:24663:612885466800",
  "sources_kept": 5
}

Step 5 end_turn 8719 in / 469 out · 19.2s

Writing the short report for NVDA from the scans and the internal fact pack.

→ write_memo 1.73s

Tool input

{
  "level": 1,
  "sections": [
    "scan_recent",
    "scan_competition",
    "scan_guidance",
    "scan_catalysts",
    "report"
  ]
}

Result

{
  "citations": 7,
  "memo_id": null,
  "words": 900
}