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@neej4 neej4 released this 23 May 10:23
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ScholarScout v1.4.0

Three ways to turn papers into action.

What's new

Three idea generation modes

ScholarScout now generates ideas in three modes from the same papers:

  • Academic — thesis topics, methodology, key papers (existing)
  • Product — buildable products with MVP features, tech stack, revenue model, competitors
  • Develop — features and improvements for your existing project, grounded in recent papers

Develop mode treats your project description as a hard constraint. Every idea must be directly applicable to what you're building.

18 skill profiles

Skills restructured into three categories:

  • skills/ACADEMIC/ — 9 profiles (Undergraduate through Grant Proposal)
  • skills/PRODUCT/ — 4 profiles (Hackathon, Side Project, AI Tool, Industry R&D)
  • skills/DEVELOP/ — 5 profiles (Feature, Integration, Optimization, Extension, Pivot)

Onboarding wizard

3-step setup on first launch: pick provider → test connection → choose categories. Supports custom endpoints (9router, LM Studio, any OpenAI-compatible proxy).

File upload

Drag-and-drop .pdf/.txt/.md/.json in the Profile popup. Content is used as extra context for both Quick mode and full pipeline Run.

Semantic novelty checking

When using Gemini, novelty check now uses text-embedding-004 for cosine similarity instead of token-level Jaccard. Falls back gracefully if embedding API is unavailable.

Architecture refactor

  • Server split into 6 Flask Blueprint modules
  • SSE streaming response parser (handles local proxies that stream even with stream: false)
  • Cache-aware fetching (second run skips API calls if cache has papers)
  • pyproject.toml with project metadata
  • Semantic Scholar API key support (S2_API_KEY env var)

Bug fixes

  • Goal selection not reaching pipeline (hidden select missing product/develop options)
  • Quick mode ignoring goal (always used academic prompt)
  • Profile popup save broken after refactor
  • Wizard skip not persisting
  • Upload endpoint 404 until restart
  • Token budget too low for product mode (truncated JSON)
  • Empty file upload accepted silently
  • Negative session index wrap-around
  • Test connection timeout too long for local endpoints

Breaking changes

None. Existing config.yaml and session data work without modification.

Install / upgrade

git pull
pip install -r requirements.txt
python preview_server.py

Open http://localhost:5050 — the wizard will guide you if it's your first time.

Full changelog: CHANGELOG.md

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