profiles: biomed_literature: description: "Mechanism, clinical, systematic review, and biomedical evidence." order: - "pubmed_ncbi" - "clinicaltrials" - "fda_ema_nmpa" - "serper_scholar" - "tavily_exa_gap_fill" patent_heavy: description: "IP landscape, freedom-to-operate, and process-route research." order: - "google_patents_via_serper" - "uspto_epo_cnipa" - "company_disclosures" - "exa_tavily_family_discovery" china_market: description: "China regulatory, company, supply-chain, and market research." order: - "nmpa_cde" - "exchange_disclosures" - "serper_brave_chinese" - "exa_company_pages" - "tavily_gap_fill" investment: description: "Public-company, market-size, and transaction-oriented research." order: - "sec_exchange_filings" - "consulting_and_database_reports" - "company_announcements" - "serper_news" - "tavily_gap_fill" apis: tavily: best_for: ["initial_scan", "gap_fill", "llm_friendly_snippets"] evidence_role: "discovery_only_unless_original_source" exa: best_for: ["company_pages", "terminology_check", "long_tail_professional_pages"] evidence_role: "discovery_or_secondary" brave: best_for: ["cross_check", "counter_evidence", "mixed_language_search"] evidence_role: "discovery_only_unless_original_source" serper: best_for: ["google_scholar", "google_patents", "news"] evidence_role: "discovery_or_secondary" pubmed_ncbi: best_for: ["tier1_literature", "systematic_reviews", "meta_analysis"] evidence_role: "tier1_or_tier2" clinicaltrials: best_for: ["trial_registration", "pipeline_status", "endpoint_design"] evidence_role: "tier1" regulatory: best_for: ["approval_status", "label", "safety", "review_documents"] evidence_role: "tier1" defaults: glossary_workers: 4 unstable_network_workers: 3 trace_back_to_tier_1_2: true