Application
Agents & Orchestration
RD-Agent
1Automate 2research 3and 4development 5with 6agents
the six Ws · specification
W1
Who
Maintained by Microsoft Research.
W2
What
Automates research and data-science R&D tasks.
W3
Where
A Python program run locally or self-hosted.
W4
When
When automating model and data research loops.
W5
Why
Explores ideas and implements them with minimal input.
W6
With
Python and an LLM API key.
W7
Watch
Vendor-maintained (Microsoft); open-source (MIT). The agent writes and runs code, so sandbox it; calls the LLM provider you configure.