litman 1.0.0 — first stable release
litman is a local-first, AI-augmented literature manager: a command-line tool (lit) over a plain-file vault where every paper lives in one folder of YAML metadata, notes, and the original PDF. It works fully by hand, with optional Claude Code skills that let an AI agent operate it for you. This is the first stable release.
Highlights
- 📁 Long-term local vault — everything is plain text (YAML + markdown + PDFs) on your disk. No cloud database, no lock-in: back it up anywhere and grep` the whole library.
- 🧭 Consistent by design — topics, methods, projects, and sources are governed by a shared
TAXONOMY.mdcontrolled vocabulary; atomic operations keep cross-references clean, andlit health-checkcatches drift. - 🔗 Paper ↔ project ↔ code — bind one paper to many projects (each gets a symlinked folder and an auto-generated
REFERENCES.md), and to its official code repository cloned inside the vault. - 🤖 AI-native CLI — two bundled Claude Code skills (
lit-library, lit-reading`) let an agent drive the CLI. The agent proposes, the CLI
validates and writes, so the library stays correct even with an imperfect model.
Install
pipx install litman
lit setup # one-shot setup wizard
Requires Python 3.12+.
Links
- 📦 PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/litman/1.0.0/
- 📖 Documentation: https://github.com/wqx1999/litman/blob/main/docs/0-readme.md
- 🚀 Tutorial: https://github.com/wqx1999/litman/blob/main/docs/5-tutorial.md