researching-literature

What problem does it solve?

Searches for authoritative academic and technical sources on a topic, filters for high-quality, relevant works, and centralizes those sources into a single, versioned references.md file while attempting to download available PDFs into a references/ directory.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Dual-track search strategy with a preferred MCP Semantic Scholar path and a WebSearch fallback to surface both recent and landmark literature.
• Automated metadata extraction, relevance summaries, PDF download attempts, citation snowballing (backward and forward) when MCP is available, duplicate detection, and stable REF-NNN identifiers for cross-referencing.
• Use Cases: compile a reading list for a new research project, perform a literature review for a paper, gather citations and PDFs for reproducible experiments, or maintain a curated bibliography for a problem directory.

Quick Start

Run researching-literature with a clear topic and a problem directory, for example: quantum error correction ./my-research, to build references.md and download available PDFs.