Paper Pilot

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Paper Pilot is a local-first Windows research assistant for crawling papers, organizing artifacts, and generating AI-backed scientific briefs.

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Literature signals flow into project-scoped artifacts.

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Who it's for

Paper Pilot is for scientists who need a transparent desktop workflow for literature discovery, full-text collection, and project-scoped synthesis.

Paper Pilot brings academic source crawlers, local SQLite storage, open-access PDF handling, search, and AI synthesis into one desktop workspace.

Capabilities

Project workspaces for chat, crawl jobs, papers, artifacts, and reports.

API-first source registry for OpenAlex, Crossref, Semantic Scholar, PubMed, arXiv, Europe PMC, CORE, and Unpaywall.

Local FTS and vector search over imported papers and generated artifacts.

Approval-gated Python, browser, and research-agent workflows.

Workflow trace

1 Create a research project.
2 Launch a crawl or ask a research question.
3 Approve source, script, or browser jobs when policy requires it.
4 Review papers, PDFs, logs, and generated briefs in the artifact panel.

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Download Paper Pilot for Windows

The download button resolves the latest Windows x64 installer directly from GitHub Releases. Visitors on other platforms will see that Paper Pilot is available for Windows only.

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