SebastianElvis/reaper
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AI-native scientific research pipeline — Claude Code plugin that takes a paper + research goal and autonomously runs multi-step academic research
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# Reaper **Reaper (REAd PapER)** — an AI-native scientific research pipeline. A composable set of [AI agent skills](https://github.com/vercel-labs/skills) that takes a research goal — optionally with a research paper — and autonomously conducts rigorous, multi-step academic research. Runs on any agent that supports the `SKILL.md` convention (Cursor, Codex CLI, Cline, Continue, Gemini CLI, Copilot, Windsurf, Claude Code, and 40+ more). [](https://github.com/vercel-labs/skills) ## What Reaper Does Give Reaper a research question — with or without a PDF. It reads the paper (if provided), searches for related work, formalizes hypotheses, investigates them in parallel, critiques its own findings, and delivers a structured research report — all without manual prompting between steps. ``` # Without a paper — pure goal-driven research /reaper "explore the feasibility of post-quantum threshold signatures" # With a paper /reaper "determine if the security proof in Section 4 holds under asynchrony" path/to/paper.pdf ``` How you invoke a skill depends on the host agent. The `/<skill>` form above is the canonical display convention used throughout these docs — it works directly on slash-command hosts (e.g. Claude Code), and on auto-discovery hosts (Cursor, Codex CLI, Cline, Continue, Gemini CLI, Copilot, Windsurf, …) you simply ask the agent to "run the `/reaper` skill on …" by its bare name.