- Branding: research-lab registered in @mana/shared-branding with requiredTier: 'beta' + a custom flask-on-purple icon, so guest/public users are filtered out of the workbench picker.
- Backend: compare routes now return resultId alongside each CompareEntry so the frontend can wire ratings to the eval_results rows in research.*.
- Frontend: click-to-rate stars in CompareColumn (persists via POST /v1/runs/:runId/results/:resultId/rate), recent-run list rows are now buttons that navigate to /research-lab/runs/[id], and the detail route reconstructs CompareEntry shapes from eval_results + reuses CompareColumn for a full read-only view of any past run.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
New Bun/Hono service on port 3068 that bundles many web-research providers
behind a unified interface for side-by-side comparison. All eval runs
persist in research.* (mana_platform) so quality can be reviewed later.
Providers (Phase 1+2):
search: searxng, duckduckgo, brave, tavily, exa, serper
extract: readability (via mana-search), jina-reader, firecrawl
Endpoints:
POST /v1/search, /v1/search/compare — single + fan-out
POST /v1/extract, /v1/extract/compare — single + fan-out
GET /v1/runs, /v1/runs/:id — history
POST /v1/runs/:run/results/:id/rate — manual eval
GET /v1/providers, /v1/providers/health — catalog + readiness
Auto-routing: when `provider` is omitted, queries are classified via regex
(fast path, 0ms) with optional mana-llm fallback, then routed to the first
available provider for that query type (news → tavily, academic → exa,
semantic → exa, etc.).
Credits: server-key calls go through mana-credits reserve → commit/refund
so failed provider calls don't charge the user. BYO-keys supported via
research.provider_configs (UI arrives in Phase 4).
Cache: Redis with graceful degradation (1h TTL for search, 24h for
extract). Pay-per-use APIs only — no subscription-gated providers.
Docs: docs/plans/mana-research-service.md + docs/reports/web-research-capabilities.md
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
