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## Initial API release

The first public version of the Caesar Research API.

### Core features

* **Research endpoint**: `POST /research` for creating research jobs
* **Streaming support**: Server-sent events for real-time progress updates
* **OpenAI compatibility**: Drop-in compatible endpoints at `/compat/completions` and `/compat/chat/completions`

### Request parameters

| Parameter       | Type    | Default  | Description                          |
| --------------- | ------- | -------- | ------------------------------------ |
| `query`         | string  | required | The research question                |
| `compute_units` | integer | 3        | Number of reasoning iterations       |
| `auto`          | boolean | false    | Enable automatic parameter selection |

### Response fields

Each completed research job returns:

* `answer`: The synthesized research response
* `results`: Array of source citations with URLs and excerpts
* `compute_units_consumed`: Actual units used