Someone built a free, installable package that turns Claude — the AI assistant made by Anthropic — into something closer to a full research department. You point it at a topic, and a team of AI agents fans out: reading papers, writing drafts, simulating peer review, and checking everything before handing it back to you.
The part worth paying attention to: it won't let Claude make up citations.
That's a real problem with AI tools right now. Ask one to summarize research and it'll sometimes invent author names, paper titles, even journals — and present them with total confidence. This package connects to an actual academic database, checks every reference against real records, and flags anything that doesn't match before it reaches you.
If your work involves reports, white papers, grant applications, industry analysis, or anything that needs to cite real sources — this is the first AI workflow I've seen that takes the verification problem seriously, not just the writing problem.
It won't replace your judgment. But it means you can ask Claude to do a deep literature scan on, say, sustainability certifications in your industry — and actually trust that the papers it references exist.
It's free, open-source, and installs in one step through Claude Code.
AI agents — AI programs that break a big task into smaller steps and work through them one by one, sometimes passing results to other agents.
Hallucination — when an AI confidently says something that isn't true. Not a glitch, just how these systems work when they fill gaps with guesses.
Open-source — the code is public and free to use or inspect. Anyone can see exactly how it works.
Citation — a reference to a specific published paper or source. In academic and professional writing, fake ones can seriously undermine your credibility.
If you produce any kind of research-heavy content, this is worth a look: https://github.com/Imbad0202/academic-research-skills