Ask Your Whole Pile of Papers a Question (Free Claude Research Agent, 9,500+ Stars)
A free open-source research agent you point at your folder of PDFs: ask a question and get an answer that cites the paper and the page, and check any claim against what the papers actually say
Forty PDFs, one deadline, and you need the one sentence that answers your question. This free research agent, past 9,500 GitHub stars, reads the whole folder for you and answers with in-text citations down to the page, so you can open the source and check it in seconds. In its makers' published test, it matched or beat PhD-level experts at literature research.
Here's what it does, how to run it on Claude, and the honest catch.
What it does for you
- Ask your papers: one question in, a written answer out, every claim tagged with the paper and pages it came from.
- Check a claim: the contradiction setting takes a statement and tells you whether any paper in the pile disagrees.
- Paper health: it pulls each paper's metadata, citation count and a retraction check, so a retracted study stands out.
- Reads more than PDFs: text files, Word and other Office files, tables and figures.
Free, for your email
Get the full setup steps + the copy-paste setup prompt
The rest of this guide (3 more sections, 1 copy-paste prompt) opens right here. The setup prompt, one paste into Claude that sets it all up, comes by email only. Use your real address.
Unlocks: Setup on Claude (about 10 minutes) · The catch · Sources
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