the research terminal

Automate the busy work. Keep the decisions.

rterminal takes the grind off your desk — searching, reading, extracting, wiring things up, and running long workflows end-to-end — and moves at a pace you can't by hand. Every judgment call and interpretation stays with you.

£20/month · 7-day free trial · cancel anytime

Claude Code Gemini Codex OpenCode

Runs on macOS & Linux · built on the open-source VS Code core.

flexible by design

One terminal. Every agent, every kind of output.

Pick a backend per session — switching never changes how you work — and let it answer in whatever form the task needs. Beside the chat, a display window fills with the artifacts it produces, each on its own tab.

Claude Code
Anthropic's coding agent, reasoning and tool calls in the trace.
Gemini
Google's CLI, normalized to the same reply and approval model.
Codex
OpenAI's Codex — sandboxed, workspace-write, or full access.
OpenCode
The open-source agent — plan, build, or auto — same surface.
Sources Datasets Charts Paper Notes
referenceInherent Trade-Offs in the Fair Determination of Risk Scores · 2017
referenceOn Fairness and Calibration · 2017
datasetCOMPAS · profiled schema · 7,214 rows
chartCalibration vs. equalized-odds frontier
references · datasets · charts · notes · rendered pages & images — one tab each
long-running, in the loop

Big workflows run for hours. You stay at the wheel.

rterminal will scope a question, survey the literature, run a hypothesis tournament, design and run experiments, and draft the paper — across many turns. It doesn't run off on its own: at every fork it hands the decision and interpretation back to you.

rterminal does the busy work
  • Search, read & screen hundreds of sources
  • Extract, triangulate & build the evidence ledger
  • Run experiments & record measured results
  • Draft, cite & check the write-up
you make the calls
  • Confirm the scope & premises
  • Pick the direction; sign off the design
  • Interpret results; rule on each hypothesis
  • Approve what ships
01ScopePin the question & aim, with you.
02LiteratureSurvey prior work; build the ledger.
03HypothesesDerive falsifiable claims.
04DataFind & profile datasets.
05ExperimentDesign first, then run for real.
06AnalysisRule on each hypothesis.
07PaperAssemble, cited & honest.
08VerifyIntegrity gate: references & verdicts.
09DistributeVenue, release & submission.
pre-set up, not locked in

Ready for research out of the box. General enough for anything.

A working research method comes loaded — deep research, literature review, hypothesis tournaments, experiments, a paper pipeline. But underneath it's a general agent terminal: point it at a codebase, a dataset, an ops task, or a pile of writing, and it works the same way. The skills are just editable instructions — change them, add your own, and it adapts to how you work.

  • Skills are plain, editable files — tune the method or write new ones
  • Not just research: code, data, analysis, writing — any agent task
  • Approval modes from read-only to full access, per session
a real run

Designing a Bayesian decision-support system for sentencing.

A live session — scoped, reviewed, and decided with the researcher. The busy work below was automated; the direction and the verdicts were the human's.

literature review284 → 18

284 sources screened down to 18 load-bearing claims, each traced to its sources.

“A risk score can't be both calibrated within groups and equalized in error rates across them.” — the fairness-impossibility result, pinned to Kleinberg 2017 & Chouldechova 2017
hypothesis tournamentElo-ranked

Candidate designs, scored by an automated review panel — each kept or revised, with reasons.

  1. 1 Integrated system 1265
  2. 2 Analogical — adapt a bail cost-min model 1241
  3. 3 Lean minimal-sufficient champion 1231
integrity gateverified

Before anything shipped, the run checked itself: references resolve, verdicts cover every hypothesis.

Critic verdict: PASS WITH WARNINGS — flagged, surfaced to the researcher.
your kit, synced

Sign in once. Everything follows you.

Your skills and tools live in your account and sync to every machine you sign in on — no settings to touch. A new account starts from a curated template you can edit and grow, and your library stays yours: an independent copy, access-controlled and audited.

  • Skills & tools sync down on sign-in and back up as you edit
  • Runs as ordinary local mode — nothing skill-aware on the server
  • Tokens stored hashed, fetches rate-limited, access audited

Put the busy work on autopilot.

Start free for 7 days, then £20/month. Sign in from the app and your skills are set up for you — no configuration.