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Welcome to the Research Copilot wiki — a community knowledge base for setup guides, troubleshooting, and usage tips that complement the README.

Start here

• Getting Started — first launch, signing in, your first chat
• FAQ — common questions and known issues
• Troubleshooting — auth failures, missing PDFs, Paper Wiki setup

Go deeper

• Skills Catalog — all 14 builtin skills with example prompts
• Paper Wiki — cross-project memory: how it works, costs, tools
• Glossary — artifact, skill, mention, session summary, and other terms
• Context Compaction — how the agent's conversation is kept inside the LLM's context window: transformContext, persisted compaction state, restart-time orphan replay

Where to go for what

I want to…	Go to
Ask a question or share a tip	Discussions
Report a bug or request a feature	Issues
Read setup walkthroughs and guides	This wiki
Read the code-level overview	README and CLAUDE.md in the repo

What is Research Copilot?

An AI-powered desktop research assistant for scientists and academics. Literature search, data analysis, academic writing, cross-project paper memory — powered by your ChatGPT Pro / Claude Max subscription (or an API key).

See the README "How is Research Copilot different" for the full comparison with Claude Cowork.

Contributing to this wiki

Spotted something wrong or missing? Edit the page directly, or open a Discussion if you'd like to talk it through first. Keep wiki pages task-oriented ("how do I…") — code-level documentation belongs in the repo.