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deepsearch-academic

Grade C: derived only from the two verdicts below. How grades work

An implementation of Google Deep Search with support for 1000+ references, local inference, chatting with your scraping session using RAPTOR, and report generation.

Steady2+ majors behindFree

Why this verdict

How we check →
  • 3 commits in the last 90 days, none in the last 30. receipt ↗
  • Latest release v0.1.2, 66 days ago. receipt ↗
  • OpenAI SDK 1 declared; latest is 3 (2 majors behind). receipt ↗
  • LangChain 0 declared; latest is 1 (1 major behind). receipt ↗
  • On current major: Pydantic, Streamlit. receipt ↗
  • Not counted in verdict: LangGraph 0 → 1. receipt ↗

Snapshot: commit 1a88073 on main, checked 2026-10-19 06:34 UTC. Receipts link to files at this exact commit.

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  • Repository moved: seed says iblameandrew/deepsearch-academic, GitHub resolves to godelcomplete9/deepsearch-academic. Update the seed.
  • No license detected: check terms before commercial use.
  • Two or more breaking releases behind on a core dependency.

Dependency freshness

PackageDeclaredLatestStatus
OpenAI SDK openai1.40.03.35.12 majors behind
LangChain langchain0.3.01.4.61 major behind
LangGraph langgraph0.2.01.2.16Behind, not counted
Pydantic pydantic2.0.02.14.1Current
Streamlit streamlit1.36.01.66.0Current

Declared = lowest version the kit's dependency file (package.json, pyproject.toml or requirements.txt) allows. Latest = the npm "latest" tag or the newest PyPI release. TypeScript, the Stripe SDK, FastAPI and other 0.x packages are shown but not counted in the verdict.

What's in the stack

Framework
Streamlit
API layer
Pydantic

Detected from declared dependencies. A listed package means it's installed, not necessarily fully wired up.

What the README says you get

  • AI
    LLM relevance filteran LLM yes/no relevance check
  • AI
    Grounded conversational QAanswers are grounded in retrieved nodes only
  • AI
    llama.cpp OpenAI APIllama.cpp `llama-server` over its OpenAI-compatible `/v1` API
  • AI
    Local embeddings endpointEmbeddings need pooling enabled (`--embeddings`)
  • API
    Semantic Scholar searchSemantic Scholar bulk search (or a built-in mock corpus in debug mode)
  • Data
    RAPTOR summary treecluster chunks, summarize clusters, repeat until one root
  • Data
    FAISS tree retrievalretrieve from the full tree via FAISS
  • Deploy
    Docker deploymentThe app container defaults `LLAMA_CPP_BASE_URL` to `http://host.docker.internal:8080/v1`
  • Deploy
    Docker compose LLM profileOptional compose profile `llm` starts `ghcr.io/ggml-org/llama.cpp:server`
  • Other
    PDF report exportacademic-style PDF report, pipeline Mermaid diagram, and a bibliography
  • Other
    Mermaid diagram exportpipeline Mermaid diagram
  • Other
    Bibliography exporta bibliography of kept and discarded papers
  • Testing
    Offline test suiteThe default suite is offline
  • UI
    Streamlit interfaceStreamlit is only the UI

Extracted from the kit's README by a local AI model (deepseek-flash) on Sep 29, 2026. Every item is checked against an exact README quote. A README claim is the maker's description, not something we tested.

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Sep 29, 2026 → Oct 19, 2026. One square per check, colored by maintenance status. Hover for details.

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Oct 19, 2026Steady2+ majors behind3
Oct 12, 2026Steady2+ majors behind3
Sep 29, 2026Steady2+ majors behind3

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