Copyright (c) 2026 Oğuz Gençer Licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0 (see LICENSE)
This project is original work by Oğuz Gençer. All prompt text, agent specifications, templates, methodology framings, and documentation were written from scratch.
The following methodologies are referenced but are not proprietary to this or any other tool. They are well-established academic practices documented in peer-reviewed literature:
- PRISMA 2020 — Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (Page et al., 2021, BMJ, doi:10.1136/bmj.n71)
- APA 7th Edition — American Psychological Association style manual
- Socratic Method — Pedagogical method dating to classical antiquity, formalized by Paul & Elder (2007) in the field of critical thinking
- Peer Review — Standard scholarly publication practice; no single authoritative protocol, common patterns reflected here
- IMRaD Structure — Introduction, Methods, Results, and Discussion (Sollaci & Pereira, 2004, J Med Libr Assoc)
- Reciprocal Rank Fusion — Information retrieval ranking method (Cormack et al., 2009, SIGIR)
This software uses Large Language Model (LLM) inference at runtime. It does not bundle, embed, or distribute any LLM model weights. The user is responsible for compliance with the terms of service of whichever LLM provider they use (e.g., Anthropic Claude).
Names of third-party products mentioned for interoperability (Claude Code, Claude API, Anthropic) are the trademarks of their respective owners. Mention of these products does not imply endorsement.
If you use this software in scholarly work, please cite:
Gençer, O. (2026). researcher_agent: An LLM-driven research assistance
framework [Computer software]. CC BY-NC 4.0.