Command line

KinetixAI in your terminal.

kx searches papers across arXiv, Semantic Scholar and OpenAlex, looks up researchers by ORCID, asks KinetixAI grounded questions, and now reaches further in: pull a single Paper Lab tab, query your own Research RAG, or browse Primers, all without leaving the terminal.

$ pip install kinetixai WindowsmacOSLinux

Search & metadata

Public APIs. No account needed.

$ kx search "flash attention"

Search arXiv, Semantic Scholar and OpenAlex at once, de-duplicated and ranked.

$ kx scholar "Tri Dao"

Look up a researcher and their recent work via ORCID.

$ kx get 2205.14135 --pdf

Fetch a paper's metadata, and optionally the PDF.

$ kx get 2205.14135 --bibtex

Get a paper's citation in BibTeX, ready to paste into your references.

Ask KinetixAI

Demo mode is free. Unlimited use is a Scholar feature.

$ kx ask "What is RLVR?"

Ask a grounded, cited question, same as the Ask KinetixAI page.

$ kx ask "What is RLVR?" --paper tricalrag

Scope the question to one paper in your bucket.

Paper Lab

1 paper/day on Explorer, unlimited on Scholar and Professional.

$ kx paper tricalrag --tab architecture

Pull one tab (visualization, architecture, mnemonic, cheatsheet or flashcards) as text or --json.

$ kx paper 1706.03762 --tab flashcards

Get a paper's flashcards for drilling, by arXiv ID or Paper Lab slug.

Your Research RAG

Scholar and Professional, your private workspace.

$ kx rag add paper.pdf

Add a PDF, a note, or a GitHub repo URL to your private Research RAG.

$ kx rag ask "How did we handle fault injection?"

Ask across only your own files, cited back to the exact page or line.

Primers

Browse free. Buying or downloading needs an account.

$ kx primers list --category gpu

Browse the Primers catalog from the terminal, filtered by category.

$ kx primers get paper-tricalrag --pdf

Download a Primer you already own.

Account

Sign in once. Every command follows your plan from that point.

$ kx auth login

Sign in once; every command above then follows your plan and reaches your own Research RAG.

What you get

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Federated search

arXiv, Semantic Scholar and OpenAlex in one query, de-duplicated and ranked by citations.

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Grounded answers

kx ask returns cited answers, scoped to one paper or your whole bucket.

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Paper Lab, any tab, from a script

Pull architecture, mnemonic, cheatsheet or flashcards for any paper you can reach, as text or JSON.

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Your Research RAG, scriptable

Add files and ask across them without opening a browser.

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Scriptable everywhere

Add --json to any command to pipe results into jq or your own tools.

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Runs everywhere

A single Python package for Windows, macOS and Linux.

search, scholar, get and ask (demo mode) use public APIs or the free tier and need no account. Google Scholar has no public API, so Semantic Scholar and OpenAlex are used instead. Commands that touch your own Paper Lab history, Research RAG or Primers need kx auth login; full CLI access, plus the API, is a Professional feature.