Vibe-Research-Guide

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A curated guide for LLM-agent-driven scientific research automation

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At A Glance

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<strong>Core Question</strong><br><br>
How far can AI move from research assistant to research operator?<br><br>
Focus: literature, ideation, experiment, writing, and evaluation.
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<strong>What Changed In 2026</strong><br><br>
Research copilots got stronger, learning layers became real, autonomous research systems got more credible, and Vibe Coding became the execution layer.
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<strong>How To Use This Repo</strong><br><br>
Treat the README as a map. Treat the topic pages as the actual guide.
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2026 Landscape Snapshot

Five shifts now define the field:

1. Research copilots are stronger and easier to trust: Deep Research, NotebookLM-style source-grounded reading, and scientific workspaces such as Prism are making synthesis and report-writing meaningfully faster.
2. Auto Research is becoming a recognizable system category: The AI Scientist, The AI Scientist-v2, Agent Laboratory, AI-Researcher, RD-Agent, Auto-Deep-Research, and EvoScientist now form a real system family.
3. Benchmarks are getting closer to scientific reality: ScienceAgentBench, FIRE-Bench, ResearchClawBench, SGI-Bench, and RE-Bench shift evaluation away from vague "agent capability" claims.
4. Execution substrates now determine whether research agents actually work: Claude Code, Codex, OpenHands, SWE-agent, OpenClaw, and chat bridges such as cc-connect increasingly matter because experiment loops fail on tooling long before they fail on prose.
5. A wider agent-native ecosystem is forming around research: personal assistants, registries, skills, self-evolving stacks, and companion UX are increasingly part of the same operational environment.

2026 Auto Research Signals

Several current signals make the field feel less like a loose collection of demos and more like an emerging research stack:

1. The field has moved from "can an agent summarize papers?" to "can an agent operate a research loop?"
2. System families are diverging clearly: end-to-end scientists, human-in-the-loop research copilots, R&D execution agents, deep-research assistants, and self-evolving scientist stacks now look meaningfully different.
3. Benchmarking is improving fast: scientist-aligned workflows, rediscovery tasks, expert comparison, and checklist-based evaluation are becoming standard expectations instead of afterthoughts.
4. Frameworks matter as much as flagship demos: AI-Researcher, RD-Agent, and Auto-Deep-Research show that orchestration and harness design are now first-class concerns.
5. Platformization is visible: FutureHouse Platform, Robin, BixBench, and Edison Scientific / Kosmos show how AI-scientist ideas are moving from one-off papers to persistent public or commercial surfaces.

Choose a Path

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<strong>🟢 New to Vibe Research</strong><br><br>
Start: <a href="./topics/getting-started.md">Getting Started</a><br>
Then: <a href="./topics/auto-research.md">Auto Research</a> · <a href="./topics/tools.md">Tools & Platforms</a>
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<strong>🔵 Developer / Builder</strong><br><br>
Start: <a href="./topics/auto-research.md">Auto Research</a><br>
Then: <a href="./topics/tools.md">Tools & Platforms</a> · <a href="./topics/vibe-coding.md">Vibe Coding</a> · <a href="./topics/systems.md">Systems</a>
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<strong>🔴 Researcher</strong><br><br>
Start: <a href="./topics/surveys.md">Surveys</a><br>
Then: <a href="./topics/auto-research.md">Auto Research</a> · <a href="./topics/benchmarks.md">Benchmarks</a> · <a href="./topics/ideation.md">Ideation</a>
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<strong>🟣 Creator / Operator</strong><br><br>
Start: <a href="./topics/tools.md">Tools & Platforms</a><br>
Then: <a href="./topics/vibe-coding.md">Vibe Coding</a> · <a href="./topics/vibe-anything.md">Vibe Anything</a>
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Auto Research Stack

This is the shortest useful way to read the field in 2026:

For a dedicated overview, start here: → Auto Research

Representative Auto Research Systems

Auto Research Benchmarks

More detail: → Benchmarks

Agent-Native Landscape Beyond Research

Vibe Research remains the center of this repo. But in practice, research agents now live inside a larger operating environment: personal assistants, software-surface layers, self-improving agents, and companion UX around coding agents.

Personal Agent Assistants

These are not all "research agents", but they increasingly shape the environment research agents live in.

Agent-Native Software / CLI-Anything

This layer matters because the frontier is no longer only "which agent is best", but also "which software surfaces are now agent-operable".

Learning, RL & Self-Evolving Agents

This is still one of the most important structural shifts in the field: not just tool-using agents, but agents that can be trained, optimized, or improved over time.

Vibe Coding Apps & Companion UX

This is a newer branch, but it is growing quickly enough that it deserves to be called out separately.

Claw Stack At A Glance

The Claw family now spans more than research agents. The cleaner reading is:

Full map: → Claw Park

Ecosystem Snapshot

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<td width="25%" align="center"><strong><a href="./topics/tools.md">→ Tools & Platforms</a></strong></td>
<td width="25%" align="center"><strong><a href="./topics/claw-park.md">→ Claw Park</a></strong></td>
<td width="25%" align="center"><strong><a href="./topics/vibe-coding.md">→ Vibe Coding</a></strong></td>
<td width="25%" align="center"><strong><a href="./topics/vibe-anything.md">→ Vibe Anything</a></strong></td>
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Plugins, Bridges & Research Connectors

A new layer is forming between "agent" and "workflow": plugin surfaces, MCP registries, skill catalogs, and chat bridges that make research agents easier to extend, discover, and operate.

More detailed map: → Tools & Platforms

Topic Map

Core Guides

Research Topics (39+ papers)

Reading Modes

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<strong>Read The Field</strong><br><br>
<a href="./topics/auto-research.md">Auto Research</a> · <a href="./topics/surveys.md">Surveys</a> · <a href="./topics/systems.md">Systems</a> · <a href="./topics/benchmarks.md">Benchmarks</a>
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<strong>Build The Stack</strong><br><br>
<a href="./topics/tools.md">Tools & Platforms</a> · <a href="./topics/claw-park.md">Claw Park</a> · <a href="./topics/vibe-coding.md">Vibe Coding</a>
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<strong>Prototype Beyond Research</strong><br><br>
<a href="./topics/vibe-anything.md">Vibe Anything</a>
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Useful Resources

Introductions: AI for Science (Nature) · LLM Agents (Lilian Weng) · Agentic Patterns (Andrew Ng)

Awesome Lists: LLM Agent Survey · AI Agents · Scientific Idea Generation

Research Core: Semantic Scholar · Elicit · Consensus · Connected Papers

Auto Research / AI Scientist: The AI Scientist · The AI Scientist-v2 · Agent Laboratory · AI-Researcher · RD-Agent · Auto-Deep-Research · EvoScientist

Benchmarks & Evaluation: ScienceAgentBench · FIRE-Bench · ResearchClawBench · SGI-Bench · RE-Bench · MLE-bench

Scientific-Method Framing: From Automation to Autonomy · LLM Agents as AI Scientists: A Survey · A Survey of LLM-based Scientific Agents · Exploring the role of large language models in the scientific method

AI Scientist Platforms: FutureHouse Platform · Robin · BixBench · Edison Scientific · Kosmos

Personal Agent Assistants: OpenClaw · Hermes Agent · Goose · Khoj · AnythingLLM

Agent-Native Interfaces & Harnesses: CLI-Anything · cc-connect · Official MCP Registry · anthropics/skills · ClawHub

Claw Ecosystem: OpenClaw · ClawHub · Plugin Bundles · nix-openclaw · Claw Park

Learning / Self-Evolving Agents: Agent Lightning · Agent0 · AgentEvolver · EvoAgentX · Acontext · Awesome-Self-Evolving-Agents

Execution / Vibe Coding: Claude Code · Codex · Cursor Background Agents · GitHub Copilot Coding Agent · Gemini CLI · Crush

Claude Code Ecosystem: anthropics/skills · wshobson/agents · SuperClaude Framework · claude-code-router · Claude Squad · claude-task-master · Repomix

Companion Apps: Vibe Island · xisland

Prototyping: v0 · Lovable · Replit Agent · Figma AI · Canva AI

Conferences: NeurIPS · ICML · ICLR · ACL · AAAI · EMNLP

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<summary><b>Citation</b></summary>

@misc{viberesearch2026,
  title = {Vibe Research Guide},
  author = {Aaron Wang and Contributors},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://github.com/SpectrAI-Initiative/Vibe-Research-Guide},
}

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<summary><b>Changelog</b></summary>

• 2026-04-21: Added a dedicated Auto Research core guide, reweighted the README back toward Vibe Research, refreshed Systems / Surveys / Benchmarks / Tools, and synced the landing page to the stronger auto-research framing
• 2026-04-15: Reframed the README as a research-first but broader agent-native map, adding personal assistants, CLI-Anything / harness layers, and companion coding apps while keeping Vibe Research as the center
• 2026-W17: Expanded Claw coverage from a short project list into a fuller family map, including ClawHub, Plugin Bundles, nix-openclaw, ResearchClaw Desktop App, and a clearer stack-layer taxonomy
• 2026-W16: Added a dedicated learning / RL / self-evolving layer to the guide, including Agent Lightning, Agent0, AgentEvolver, EvoAgentX, Acontext, and Awesome-Self-Evolving-Agents
• 2026-W14: Added 2026 Q1 signals for OpenClaw platformization, FutureHouse / Robin / BixBench, and Edison Scientific / Kosmos; refreshed ecosystem framing across the guide
• 2026-W14: Added recent Claude Code ecosystem signals, including anthropics/skills, wshobson/agents, SuperClaude, claude-code-router, Claude Squad, claude-task-master, and Repomix
• 2026-W13: Added a new plugin / bridge / registry layer to the guide, including cc-connect, OpenAlex Research MCP, Academia MCP, PapersWithCode MCP, and more Claw ecosystem positioning
• 2026-W13: Added core tools & platforms (InnoClaw, ResearchClaw, FARS, Orchestra, OpenClaw, EvoScientist); added Deep Research tools, OpenAI Prism, MCP Servers; switched all content to English; expanded to 35+ papers across 9 topic files
• 2026-W12: Redesigned README into a stronger landing page with cleaner hierarchy, card-style path selection, and a more visual ecosystem map
• 2026-W12: Hub-and-spoke architecture reorganization
• 2026-W12: Initial public release

Full history: CHANGELOG.md

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