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High accuracy RAG for answering questions from scientific documents with citations

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What it is, and how people use it

High accuracy RAG for answering questions from scientific documents with citations It sits on the Dev Agents & Programs shelf of the catalog, maintained by @Future-House.

✓Drop-in for Claude Code, Codex CLI and Cursor - install and it just runs.
✓Read the SKILL.md / README first; most setups are one command from the docs.
✓Teams use it to standardise how agents behave across every repo in the org.
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Why builders keep it installedDev Agents & Programs benefits

Day-one leverage

These CLIs and dashboards solve one job well and install with a single command. Value shows up in the first hour, not after a config weekend.

Composes with your agent

Most of them ship an MCP server, skill or hooks - so the same tool you use manually becomes an action your agent can call safely.

Built under real workloads

Star counts here track repos people actually run daily: the issue history shows bug classes fixed under production pressure, not demo-week polish.

Free and open source

Every tool on this page ships under an open license and can be self-hosted. Your usage data and your configs stay yours.

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  • Python 72.0%
  • TypeScript 16.0%
  • Shell 12.0%

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