The open source AI research agent.
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### Installation
```bash
curl -fsSL https://feynman.is/install | bash
# stable release channel
curl -fsSL https://feynman.is/install | bash -s -- stable
# package manager fallback
pnpm add -g @companion-ai/feynman
bun add -g @companion-ai/feynman
```
The one-line installer tracks the latest `main` build. Use `stable` or an exact version to pin a release. Then run `feynman setup` to configure your model and get started.
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### What you type → what happens
```
$ feynman "what do we know about scaling laws"
→ Searches papers and web, produces a cited research brief
$ feynman deepresearch "mechanistic interpretability"
→ Multi-agent investigation with parallel researchers, synthesis, verification
$ feynman lit "RLHF alternatives"
→ Literature review with consensus, disagreements, open questions
$ feynman audit 2401.12345
→ Compares paper claims against the public codebase
$ feynman replicate "chain-of-thought improves math"
→ Asks where to run, then builds a replication plan
```
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### Workflows
Ask naturally or use slash commands as shortcuts.
| Command | What it does |
| --- | --- |
| `/deepresearch ` | Source-heavy multi-agent investigation |
| `/lit ` | Literature review from paper search and primary sources |
| `/review ` | Simulated peer review with severity and revision plan |
| `/audit - ` | Paper vs. codebase mismatch audit |
| `/replicate ` | Replication plan with environment selection |
| `/compare ` | Source comparison matrix |
| `/draft ` | Paper-style draft from research findings |
| `/autoresearch ` | Autonomous experiment loop |
| `/watch ` | Recurring research watch |
| `/outputs` | Browse all research artifacts |
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### Agents
Four bundled research agents, dispatched automatically.
- **Researcher** — gather evidence across papers, web, repos, docs
- **Reviewer** — simulated peer review with severity-graded feedback
- **Writer** — structured drafts from research notes
- **Verifier** — inline citations, source URL verification, dead link cleanup
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### Skills & Tools
- **[AlphaXiv](https://www.alphaxiv.org/)** — paper search, Q&A, code reading, annotations (via `alpha` CLI)
- **Docker** — isolated container execution for safe experiments on your machine
- **Web search** — Gemini or Perplexity, zero-config default
- **Session search** — indexed recall across prior research sessions
- **Preview** — browser and PDF export of generated artifacts
- **Modal** — serverless GPU compute for burst training and inference
- **RunPod** — persistent GPU pods with SSH access for long-running experiments
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### How it works
Built on [Pi](https://github.com/badlogic/pi-mono) for the agent runtime, [alphaXiv](https://www.alphaxiv.org/) for paper search and analysis, and CLI tools for compute and execution. Capabilities are delivered as [Pi skills](https://github.com/badlogic/pi-skills) — Markdown instruction files synced to `~/.feynman/agent/skills/` on startup. Every output is source-grounded — claims link to papers, docs, or repos with direct URLs.
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### Contributing
```bash
git clone https://github.com/getcompanion-ai/feynman.git
cd feynman && pnpm install && pnpm start
```
[Docs](https://feynman.is/docs) · [MIT License](LICENSE)