Agent run #126

research_ladder success manual

claude-haiku-4-5 · started 2026-10-02T10:52:46 · finished 2026-10-02T10:53:31

Steps

Tool calls

Input tokens

24875

Output tokens

1549

Cost

$0.0490

Input summary

GOOGL L1: 4 scans plus the internal fact pack

Final memo

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

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

Step 1 tool_use 1810 in / 298 out · 11.9s

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

→ perplexity_search 2.59s

Tool input

{
  "query": "Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) recent developments (30d)",
  "topic": "recent"
}

Result

{
  "snippets": 4,
  "source_key": "pplx:24663:332393174671",
  "sources_kept": 4
}

Step 2 tool_use 6468 in / 411 out · 25.1s

Scan — Competition & industry: the peer set is small and scaled; the differentiator is audience scale and the data that scale produces.

→ perplexity_search 7.70s

Tool input

{
  "query": "Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) competition \u0026 industry",
  "topic": "competition"
}

Result

{
  "snippets": 5,
  "source_key": "pplx:24663:453565166056",
  "sources_kept": 5
}

Step 3 tool_use 5382 in / 558 out · 13.1s

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 5.20s

Tool input

{
  "query": "Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) guidance \u0026 consensus",
  "topic": "guidance"
}

Result

{
  "snippets": 7,
  "source_key": "pplx:24663:665521223540",
  "sources_kept": 5
}

Step 4 tool_use 9373 in / 127 out · 21.1s

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

→ perplexity_search 1.56s

Tool input

{
  "query": "Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) events \u0026 catalysts",
  "topic": "catalysts"
}

Result

{
  "snippets": 8,
  "source_key": "pplx:24663:363024811997",
  "sources_kept": 2
}

Step 5 end_turn 7771 in / 583 out · 20.8s

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

→ write_memo 4.34s

Tool input

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

Result

{
  "citations": 11,
  "memo_id": null,
  "words": 727
}