abstract reads your papers, screens literature PRISMA-style, chains citations, and writes documents where every factual sentence links to the passage that proves it — with the quote on hover. Local-first: your library never leaves your machine.
bun install -g abstract # or: npm i -g abstract abstract ~/my-thesis # opens your workspace
Drafts cite only passages the agent actually opened. Every claim is checked against its source and marked supported, partial, or flagged — and the export refuses to ship fabrications. Hover any sentence to see the verbatim quote behind it.
Bibliographies render from registry metadata only — DOI-checked at export, retractions flagged. Markdown, HTML, LaTeX, and BibTeX out of the box.
The agent searches scholar indexes concept-first, screens candidates with recorded include/exclude reasons, and snowballs references backward and forward until saturation — the whole trail travels with your review, ready for a methods section.
Downloads are deduplicated by DOI, file, and title; metadata resolves against Crossref and OpenAlex — never from model memory.
“Do a literature review on frugal AI × FATE benchmarks.” The agent plans, searches, and screens — you steer at any point.
It ingests PDFs, reads page by page, takes notes, maps concepts, and builds an evidence base it can cite.
Drafts are grounded in retrieved passages, claim-checked sentence by sentence, tables cell by cell.
Print-grade HTML with citations deep-linking into the PDF at the page, plus Markdown, LaTeX, and BibTeX.
abstract is a CLI that opens a workspace in your browser. PDFs, notes, drafts, and the reading log live in ordinary files on your disk — not on our servers. Bring your own model keys, or run on abstract credits with per-turn receipts showing exactly what each task cost.
Even if your subscription lapses, reading your own workspace is never locked.
Every sentence checked against a real passage; hover shows the verbatim quote, the page, and the source grade.
Backward and forward chaining (Wohlin-style) with saturation tracking — the agent knows when the literature is exhausted.
Search log, include/exclude ledger with reasons, live funnel, exportable flow diagram.
Extraction matrices and comparison tables where every data cell is cite-checked like a sentence.
Reviews, theses, rebuttals, roadmaps, résumés — the document's shape follows its genre, never a template.
Numeric or author–year, author-prominent prose ("Hooker et al. showed…"), registry-rendered bibliographies.
Print-grade HTML where each reference deep-links into your PDF at the cited page. Save to PDF from the browser.
The agent views pages, crops figures, and keeps what it saw pinned to its reasoning.
Parallel focused readers with the same integrity gates — big corpora without losing the thread.
Venue rubrics, house styles, and methods checklists the agent loads exactly when they're relevant.
A visible task plan, interruptible mid-run; the agent is accountable to its own promises.
Managed mode with per-turn receipts (model, tokens, cost) — or bring your own API keys on the $5 license.
4 days, all features, 300 credits included.
Your own API keys, up to 3 devices. $48/yr.
No API account needed — 2,600 credits monthly, top up anytime.
Install in one line. Free for 4 days — no card.