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ResearchForge

ResearchForge

Turn a research question into a review package with logged searches, screened studies, evidence passages, analysis outputs, and replayable provenance.
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What is rforge for?

Section titled “What is rforge for?”

rforge is for researchers, reviewers, and research agents who need more than a paper summary. It helps build an auditable systematic review: search scholarly sources, import papers, deduplicate records, screen studies, extract source-backed evidence, run analysis, and export a package another reviewer can audit offline.

Use it when you need to answer: “Where did this claim come from, what was excluded, and can someone replay the work?”

Start from a question

Create a local review workspace with a protocol, approvals, source plans, and provenance logs.

Search many scholarly sources

Query OpenAlex, Crossref, PubMed, arXiv, Semantic Scholar, DOAJ, CORE, NASA ADS, and more.

Keep the audit trail

Record source refs, dedupe decisions, screening outcomes, exact evidence passages, and analysis settings.

Ship a replayable package

Export a review package with checksums, redaction notes, reports, and replay/audit commands.

A typical run

Section titled “A typical run”
Terminal window
rforge project create ./my-review --title "Artificial photosynthesis review"
rforge --project ./my-review search batch --queries queries.txt --sources scholarly-fast --out ./my-review/searches --stats
rforge duplicate report --project ./my-review
rforge --project ./my-review ui

Let your agent do the legwork

Section titled “Let your agent do the legwork”

Ask Claude, Pi, Codex, OpenCode, or another coding agent to install the ResearchForge skill pack from GitHub and run the search workflow for you.

Read https://github.com/TrebuchetDynamics/research-forge/blob/main/SKILLS.md,
install the ResearchForge skills, then use rforge to research: <your topic>

The pack includes the main research skill plus specialist skills for source ingestion, legal PDF/document handling, screening, evidence extraction, meta-analysis, reporting, and review-package release checks. rforge gives the agent tools, logs, source refs, and replayable outputs instead of an untraceable summary.

What you get

Section titled “What you get”
  • a local project store for papers, decisions, evidence, and provenance;
  • repeatable source searches and imports;
  • an agent-friendly workflow for Claude, Pi, Codex, OpenCode, and similar tools;
  • deduplication and screening records;
  • analysis and report artifacts;
  • a .rforgepkg review package that can be audited and replayed.
Terminal window
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TrebuchetDynamics/research-forge/main/install.sh | bash
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