Academic Research Assistant 3.1.0

This incremental release adds 50 research and specialized LaTeX skills and includes both MIT-licensed Humanizer projects with their notices, for 90 skills total.

It does not yet establish complete coverage of the separately preserved 118-entry collection. Live assistant activation and external services remain unverified. See the README and third-party notices for setup, testing limits and licensing.

With Node.js 22 or newer, run the released package directly from GitHub:

npx --yes --package=https://github.com/santanu-p/academic-research-assistant/releases/download/v3.1.0/academic-research-assistant-3.1.0.tgz academic-research-assistant verify

Download the ZIP for a portable bundle or the npm tarball for a local npm installation; SHA256SUMS.txt contains their checksums.

Academic Research Assistant 3.0.0

Academic Research Assistant 3.0.0

An MIT-licensed local research toolkit with 38 research skills, a dependency-free Node CLI and read-only MCP server, optional Python scientific utilities, and an explicit-command revision runner.

Install

Requires Node.js 22+. Clone the repository and run:

git clone https://github.com/santanu-p/academic-research-assistant.git
cd academic-research-assistant
node cli/ara.mjs --help
node cli/ara.mjs list

Alternatively, download the attached npm tarball and use:

npm exec --yes --package ./academic-research-assistant-3.0.0.tgz -- academic-research-assistant --help

Export profiles support Codex local marketplaces, Claude Code plugins, single-entry Agent Skills, and generic local MCP hosts. See the repository README for installation and configuration.

Downloads

• npm tarball: installable package; npm registry publication remains separate.
• Portable plugin ZIP: the complete 72-file runtime.
• SHA256SUMS.txt: checksums for both archives.
• Verification reports: package content checks, structural validation, tested behavior and limits.

Verification

11 Node tests passed. The Python implementation passed 27 tests with its optional PDF backend enabled. Structural validation checked 38 canonical skills and 168 local links with no failures. The release archives match the maintained runtime source byte for byte.

Verification was performed on Windows. Host exports and local MCP were exercised; account-level host activation, live scholarly databases, model providers, TeX/office backends, Linux and macOS execution were not certified. Skills guide the host assistant; the MCP server provides local navigation and does not autonomously perform research.