Claude Scholar
Claude Scholar is a set of skills and agents that helps computer science and AI researchers manage literature, experiments, and paper writing.
What it is good for
- Organizing research papers and reading notes in one workflow
- Tracking experiments, results, and findings across a project
- Drafting rebuttals and academic writing with human review
- Managing research notes in Obsidian and Zotero
At a glance
- Who it is for
- Setup
- Guided command-line setup
Level 4 of 5. You copy and paste commands into a terminal by following the instructions. Comfortable territory for vibe coders.
- Cost
- Free and open source
- Type
- Agent app
- Tasks
- Works with
- Claude Code, Codex CLI, Kimi Code CLI, OpenCode, Zotero, Obsidian
Momentum
- Rank this week
- Not ranked yet
- Best rank
- None yet
- GitHub stars
- 5,964
GitHub numbers as of Nov 2, 2026. Updated weekly.
Official links
Setup steps are on the official pages. We do not repeat them here, since they change.
Questions
- Is Claude Scholar free?
- Yes. It is free and open source (MIT license).
- Do I need to know how to code to use Claude Scholar?
- You do not need to write code, but setup means copying and pasting commands into a terminal by following its instructions.
- What does Claude Scholar work with?
- According to its own documentation, it works with Claude Code, Codex CLI, Kimi Code CLI, OpenCode, Zotero, and Obsidian.
- What is Claude Scholar good for?
- Organizing research papers and reading notes in one workflow, tracking experiments, results, and findings across a project, drafting rebuttals and academic writing with human review, and managing research notes in Obsidian and Zotero.
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