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Metis — Research Cortex

A research companion that keeps your papers, notes and project history on your machine and routes each request to one of 30+ specialists.

by SVerITG ↗Vector Stores & RAG RetrievalCommunity

LABSCO SUMMARY

The installer is the price of admission.

Nothing here is a paste-a-JSON-block install: a script builds the environment, the database and the launcher before your client sees anything. What you get for it is a system that accumulates — a paper indexed a year ago surfaces while you write a grant today. The project is direct about where it stands: the server, the agents and the dashboard are in daily use, while the one-click installer and the pre-loaded domain knowledge layer are still being refined.

What it is

A local service that connects Claude to your research: an indexed document library, a memory of your projects and working history, and a set of specialist agents it chooses between. Answers are grounded in your own documents rather than the model's recall.

What you get

  • Grounded answers drawn from your own indexed library, with page-level citations
  • Specialists picked for you — librarian, epidemiologist, methods coach, writing partner, meeting memory, course builder and more, 30+ in all
  • Library management: PDFs imported, Zotero or Mendeley synced, questions answered from what you actually hold
  • A morning brief on your own topics: new papers, field news and a focus recommendation
  • A meeting assistant that follows along live or takes a pasted transcript, returning structured notes, action items and project cross-references
  • A nine-tab dashboard covering today, news, knowledge, meetings, learning, work, thinking, teaching and Metis itself
  • Progressive tool loading: the README says 210+ tools are registered and around 80 load immediately; the rest arrive on demand through find_tools and load_tool_group, the only two tools it names — set METIS_TOOL_SEARCH=0 to load them all

Requirements

One installer command rather than a paste-in config: the setup script builds the virtual environment, initialises the database and generates the run.sh your client points at, and registers Metis with Claude Desktop and Claude Code for you. From a clone, run bash system/mcp-server/setup-mcp.sh. No API key is needed to run the server or to work interactively through your Claude subscription. An Anthropic API key is only needed for the parts that run while you are away — the scheduled morning scan and automated briefs — and goes in system/.env. Ollama is optional, for offline helper tasks. After git pull, re-sync with bash system/mcp-server/setup-mcp.sh --update.

Setup effort

One command — bash <(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SVerITG/Metis_PH/main/system/mcp-server/setup-mcp.sh)

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