Agent Capabilities: How Academica Answers a Request

The assistant picks one specialized capability that owns a complete job from start to finish.

PA.AO.001·Maintained reference·Revised 2026-08-06

Academica's assistant reads the conversation, decides what a request needs, and hands the work to one specialized capability. Each capability owns a complete job from start to finish. The internal steps a capability runs stay out of the conversation.

conversationcapabilityevidenceanswer

One clear decision at each step

PartHandlesDoes not handle
AssistantThe conversation, your intent, and which capability fitsRunning the job itself
CapabilityOne complete job and its resultWriting the conversational reply
Internal stepOne bounded judgment inside a jobAnything the reader sees directly

How a request becomes an answer

your request → assistant reads intent → chosen capability → complete job → answer in the conversation

What Academica can do for you

CapabilityWhat it does
Data and entitiesAnswers questions about companies, drugs, devices, and other tracked entities.
FinanceRetrieves quotes and history, runs calculations, and builds charts.
SearchExpands a question, searches the sources, and returns ranked evidence.
ReportsGathers evidence, writes each section, and assembles a full report.
Fact-checkingExtracts a claim, searches for evidence, and reports whether it holds.
App controlInspects an open app and proposes actions inside it.
ChartsTurns data into a chart.

Why the split matters

  • Each job has one owner, so results stay consistent between requests.
  • The assistant chooses the fitting capability by the whole job you asked for.
  • One capability can draw on others when a job needs more than one kind of work.
  • The evidence behind a report, chart, or answer stays traceable to its source.