AgentLaboratory is a multi-agent research system that automates the entire scientific experimentation process, from literature review through experiment execution to report generation, using a sequence of specialized AI agents. The system orchestrates a team of language-model-driven agents—a literature reviewer, experimental planner, executor, and report writer—to autonomously complete an end-to-end research workflow.
The system distinguishes itself by saving progress at every checkpoint, enabling seamless recovery and continuation after interruptions or failures. Agents build on each other's work through cumulative context transfer, where outputs and a growing shared context pass from one stage to the next, allowing later stages to incorporate prior findings. The entire research pipeline can be conducted in a user-specified natural language rather than English, from initial review to final report. Users guide agent behavior by providing structured notes that specify hardware resources, API keys, and research plans.