Announcing Paperclip Chat

You can now use Paperclip natively in your browser, for free.

In the past few months, thousands of researchers have poured millions of queries (and processed billions of tokens) through Paperclip, our command-line interface for scientific literature. Paperclip works natively with any coding harness, such as Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor. At the same time, not all scientists use terminal-based harnesses, and the terminal is not always the ideal user interface for literature search.

Read more about Paperclip in our original announcement.

Today, we're releasing Paperclip Chat with a simple goal — to give users an instant way to use Paperclip without local setup. Paperclip Chat is free to use. This browser implementation provides a first-class experience and includes every feature available through the command-line interface. There are also several additional benefits of being able to use a web browser:

Native citation access

Citations are natively accessible through the chat window: click on the citation and get the exact snippet of text on the right panel.

Repository visualization

Repos can be easily visualized and understood as a graph in the bottom-left panel. Click through each branch for details and observability.

Upload your own PDFs

Include your own PDFs through the attachments icon. Any documents uploaded are stored as a virtual filesystem for easy integration with the rest of Paperclip.