# companion-inc/feynman

Repository: https://github.com/companion-inc/feynman
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/feynman
Homepage: https://feynman.is
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-08-26T22:24:10+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 77/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 87, longevity 11
- inputs: {"age_days": 167, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 7, "gap_med": 0, "n_releases_24m": 96}
- flags: young
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 8588, forks 1006 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:23.643548+00:00)

## What it is
Feynman is an open-source AI research agent that reads papers, searches the web, writes cited research drafts, plans experiments, and ranks papers, usable from a terminal CLI or a local browser-based science workbench. It supports hosted and local LLM providers (LM Studio, Ollama, LiteLLM, vLLM, OpenRouter, GitHub Copilot) and can be installed as a standalone runtime bundle, npm package, or skills-only bundle for Codex.

## Use cases
- run deep research with citations from papers and the web
- do a literature review on a topic
- rank papers by methodology and reproducibility
- write a research draft with cited claims
- plan and replicate ML experiments
- audit research code
- use a local LLM like Ollama for research tasks
- browse research artifacts, notebooks, and provenance in one place

## When to choose
- you need an agentic research assistant with verifiable citations
- you want a terminal-first or self-hosted research workbench
- you want to use local models (Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM) for research workflows
- you need literature reviews, paper ranking, or experiment replication workflows

## When to avoid
- you need a general-purpose coding agent rather than a research-focused one
- you want a fully managed cloud service with no local setup
- you need a lightweight chatbot without research tooling overhead

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: agent-framework, rag, search-engine, llm-inference, cli, chat-interface, web-scraping, mcp
- domain: artificial-intelligence, large-language-models, developer-tools, data-science
- platform: windows, cli, self-hosted
- tags: ai-research-agent, literature-review, deep-research, citations, science-workbench, paper-ranking, local-models, ollama, lm-studio, notebooks, ai-agents, retrieval-augmented-generation, natural-language-processing, command-line, macos, linux, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- companion-inc/feynman (main) score 77

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:23.643548+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:26:14.952546+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/companion-inc/feynman (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:23.643548+00:00, sha 297046931e9e)
  - homepage: https://feynman.is (fetched 2026-08-29T08:26:50.476760+00:00, sha 2ab7a1d8c022)
  - site_page: https://www.feynman.is/docs/getting-started/installation (fetched 2026-08-29T08:26:50.486350+00:00, sha 37c770879022)
  - site_page: https://www.feynman.is/docs/getting-started/workbench (fetched 2026-08-29T08:26:50.488455+00:00, sha ea6369a93d3f)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.