ata

I'm building ata, an open source research and coding agent. Started as an internal tool, open sourced it a few weeks ago. It helps me combine and understand concepts across multiple papers, pull the best ideas from each, and turn them into code. It uses Treesitter and Lsp for multi-repo code understanding. The focus is on the interfaces: there's a reading view that keeps you locked in without drowning in information, and a voice mode with karaoke-style word highlighting. Also built an iOS app for research on the go, releasing that soon. npm install -g @a2a-ai/ata https://github.com/Agents2AgentsAI/ata/

Research is moving faster than ever across every field. We built ATA to help keep up. ATA is a free, open-source fork of OpenAI's Codex CLI that adds a research stack: paper search (Semantic Scholar, arXiv, OpenAlex), citation graph traversal, PDF reading and synthesis, Hacker News discussion analysis, patent search (90+ offices via EPO), Zotero integration, and a persistent knowledge base that accumulates across sessions. We also built a reading view for long-form output — when ATA synthesizes a paper or generates a report, it opens as a navigable document with sections and foldable details instead of dumping it into chat. Follow-up questions rewrite the relevant section in place rather than appending at the bottom. Free, open source, runs locally. Try it: npm install -g @a2a-ai/ata https://github.com/Agents2AgentsAI/ata/