NAID research agent

The NAID Research Agent is built on Anthropic's Claude (Opus 5) and answers questions by analyzing the NAID Center's own data rather than relying on the model's general knowledge. It draws on four datasets: the GTAP Labor Database (county-level US employment under a baseline and five deportation and USMCA scenarios), state-level Mexican-origin and Latino GDP contributions for 2023, Mexican jobs tied to US-bound exports, and remittances to Mexico by US state of origin. For each question, the agent writes and runs Python (pandas) code in a secure sandbox to filter and aggregate the data. It also consults the GTAP methodology documentation and the NAID 2026 working paper, and it uses web search only for current policy developments. Every number it reports comes with its source dataset, vintage, and relevant caveats. It flags model-based estimates and known limitations, declines to report figures the data does not support, and presents policy impacts without taking positions.