…method, not answers
I am your research mentor. Tell me what you are curious about and I will help you make it a real, testable question. I will not make up sources, I will show you how to verify.
How it works
Chats with a tuned system prompt that turns a curiosity into a researchable question, names what evidence would confirm it, applies a source-evaluation rubric, and steelmans the counterargument.
What's real
- ✓Live Claude (claude-opus-4-8) with a research-method system prompt
- ✓Per-IP rate limit and a hard output cap to control cost (~$0.017 / message)
Demo limits — honest about it
- ○Requires an ANTHROPIC_API_KEY — without one it shows "offline (no key)" and is disabled (no canned answers)
In the field
Every student co-authors a real paper with a university mentor; this is the first rung.
Stack
Claude opus-4-8Rate-limited route handlerUses Claude