Quickstart
1 · Install and open a workspace
bun install -g abstract # or: npm i -g abstract
abstract ~/my-thesis The app opens in your browser. Drop PDFs into the files panel, or let the agent fetch papers itself.
2 · Pick how models run
abstract credits (recommended): subscribe once, no API account needed — Settings shows your balance and per-turn receipts.
Your own keys: paste an Anthropic, OpenAI, or Google key in Settings → providers. One key is enough.
3 · Sign in
abstract login # browser sign-in (magic link or Google) abstract account # plan, license, credits, devices
4 · Ask for real research work
“Do a literature review on frugal AI and FATE benchmarks — PRISMA screening, snowball the references.”
“Read these five PDFs and build an extraction matrix: methods × datasets × metrics.”
“Draft the related-work section, author–year citations, and export LaTeX + BibTeX.”
“Review this manuscript like a CBMI reviewer — verify every claim you make about it.”
Every factual sentence in a draft links to the passage that supports it — hover to see the quote, click to open the PDF at the page.
Where things live
drafts/ verified documents (md + html + audit json) · sources/ your
PDFs · notes and the reading log stay in the workspace. Everything is plain files — no lock-in.