Desktop app for reading and managing academic papers, with an integrated agent that can run experiments in sandboxed environments.
Early access. Things will break. Use at your own risk.
npm install -g @yandu/yandu
yanduCLI for headless / agent-driven access:
npx @yandu/cliPrebuilt binaries for macOS, Windows, and Linux are on the Releases page.
- Papers are automatically converted to readable Markdown — tables, formulas, figures, and structure preserved (powered by MinerU and PaddleOCR)
- Ask an agent questions about any paper in your library
- Agent can connect to sandboxed environments to run and iterate on experiments
- Works with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek, Alibaba (Qwen), Zhipu (GLM), Moonshot (Kimi), MiniMax, Ollama, and many more via models.dev
- Subscribe to arXiv, RSS, DBLP, Semantic Scholar feeds
- Import from Zotero
- Local-first with optional self-hosted sync