claude-scholar

Overview of claude-scholar

What it is

Claude Scholar is a semi-automated research assistant for academic research and software development, especially for computer science and AI researchers. It supports Claude Code, Codex CLI, Kimi Code CLI, and OpenCode across literature review, coding, experiments, reporting, writing, and project knowledge management. The main branch is the Claude Code workflow; separate branches exist for Codex CLI, Kimi Code CLI, and OpenCode.

Key features

• Supports multiple CLI platforms: Claude Code, Codex CLI, Kimi Code CLI, and OpenCode.
• Provides a set of skills and agents for research tasks including literature review, coding, experiments, reporting, and writing.
• Integrates with Zotero for paper import, collection management, full-text reading, and citation export.
• Includes an Obsidian project knowledge management workflow with vault-first organization.
• Offers a setup.sh installer for backup-aware incremental updates and additive configuration merging.
• Has hooks for security guard, skill-forced evaluation, session start/stop summaries, and log auto-cleanup.

Use cases

• Literature review and paper discovery with arXiv/bioRxiv support.
• Coding and experiment management for computer science and AI research.
• Reporting and scientific writing with publication-grade figure and table generation (pubfig, pubtab).
• Project knowledge management using Obsidian vaults.
• End-to-end research pipeline from ideation to publication.

Getting started

See the repository README for installation instructions.

License and pricing

License: MIT. Open source.

Based on the project's public README and repository metadata.