@lincoln504/pi-research 1.1.0 → 1.2.0

package/README.md

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-  <img src="docs/media/banner.jpg" alt="pi-research" width="100%" />
+  <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Lincoln504/pi-research/main/docs/media/banner.jpg" alt="pi-research" width="100%" />
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 A research run is a loop of agent teams: a coordinator plans the work and runs an
 opening search, parallel researcher agents scrape and read sources through a fixed,
-sandboxed toolkit (no filesystem or shell access), and an evaluator decides whether
+sandboxed toolkit (no shell access, and no ability to write or modify files), and an evaluator decides whether
 to run another round or synthesize — returning one cited Markdown report while its
 sources are saved to the knowledge store in the background.
 
 Three depth levels — normal, deep, ultra — set the team size and number of rounds;
 ask in natural language and the tool picks the right one:
 
-![Prompt-driven multi-round research in the pi TUI](docs/media/02-prompt-research.gif)
+![Prompt-driven multi-round research in the pi TUI](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Lincoln504/pi-research/main/docs/media/02-prompt-research.gif)
 
 ### Use cases
 
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ ask in natural language and the tool picks the right one:
 - **Free, unlimited search &amp; scrape — no quota, no monthly fee.** Most AI-search providers cap free searches per month and then charge; results run on *their* index on *their* servers. pi-research's search and scraping layer (DuckDuckGo via a stealth browser) is free and unlimited — you pay only for the LLM tokens you use, never per search or per month.
 - **You own your index.** Every finding is written into a local [LanceDB](https://lancedb.com) knowledge store on *your* machine — a persistent, searchable index you control and keep, which also seeds future runs so repeat questions get faster, cheaper answers. No borrowed, server-side index you can't keep or query. Findings can also be kept **globally**, scoped to a **single project**, or **not kept at all** — set per directory, changed whenever you like. The optionality is the point: the store is yours to build, partition, or switch off.
 - **Cited reports, not raw dumps.** It returns one synthesized, sourced Markdown report to the chat instead of dumping raw web content into the conversation — context-efficient and easy to verify.
-- **Sandboxed by design.** Web access runs inside a specialized, limited research agent with no filesystem or shell access — safe to point at anything.
+- **Read-only by design.** Web access runs inside a specialized, limited research agent that cannot run shell commands or write, edit, or delete anything. It can read and search files, so treat it as you would any read-only agent with access to your machine.
 - **Search a little or a lot** — three depth levels in the pi tool (four via the SDK and standalone CLI, which add the quick depth-0 path). Levels 1 and 2 are recommended for everyday workflow use; level 3 is for larger-scale investigations.
 
 ### Requirements / limitations