litsurvey

Search & lookup (no LLM involved)

Searchkeyword search across seven indexes (OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, arXiv, PubMed, preprint portals) Paperone paper's full record: abstract, DOI, ids, BibTeX Citespapers that cite a given paper Refspapers a given paper cites Relatedsimilar papers (recommendation engine) Open accesslegal free copy of a DOI (Unpaywall)

LLM agent (needs a backend)

Noveltyprior-art verdict for a claim Researchcited state-of-the-art survey for a question

Where does the LLM run? Subscription CLIClaude Code, Codex or Gemini CLI, signed in with your Claude Pro, ChatGPT or Google plan. Your text goes to that vendor. Local modelOllama on this machine. Nothing leaves it. Cloud API keyOpenAI-compatible or Anthropic API. Your text goes to the provider.

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