Research briefs
A research brief is a typed, cited summary that Remyx produces and stores section-grained for a repo, so each section is addressable on its own. A brief contains:| Section | What it holds |
|---|---|
| Domain framing | What problem space the repo sits in and why it matters |
| Approaches survey | The methods in use across the field, with tradeoffs |
| Future directions | Where the work could plausibly go next |
| Candidate changes | Concrete, implementable changes worth trying |
| Citations | The sources behind every claim above |
How briefs are created and used
A brief is created automatically when you create a Research Interest from a GitHub repo. Remyx runs the deep-research pass in the background; you don’t trigger it separately. Once stored, the brief is used in two places:Recommendation ranking
The brief’s future directions become a forward-looking ranking axis alongside your shipping history, so the feed can weigh where the work is headed. The candidate changes seed recommendations directly.
Automated-PR drafting
When Remyx’s automated discovery PRs (a feature called Outrider) draft an implementation against your repo, the stored brief is part of the context they work from, alongside the recommendation and your repo’s history.
The Remyx bot
You can ask about a brief and a run from the pull request or issue itself: any PR or Issue that Remyx’s automated discovery PRs (Outrider) opened.Mention the bot
In a comment on such a pull request or issue, mention
@remyx-ai (aliases @remyxai and @remyx also work) and ask your question.- “Why was this recommendation surfaced over the others?”
- “What did the brief say about alternatives to this approach?”
- “Which candidate changes were considered and rejected for this run?”
- The comment mentions the bot (
@remyx-ai/@remyxai/@remyx). - The comment is on a pull request or issue that automated discovery PRs opened.
- The permission check passes.
Paper enrichment and PDF code-link recovery
A recommendation is only actionable if you can find the code behind it. Two background steps make more papers implementable. Both need nothing from you and run at ingest.Paper enrichment
Paper enrichment
For a paper with no code link, an enrichment agent traverses the arXiv abstract and HuggingFace papers pages through to project pages, classifies the URLs it finds, resolves licenses, and recovers GitHub, HuggingFace, and SPDX links back into the paper record. Existing fields are left alone; it only fills empties.
PDF code-link extraction
PDF code-link extraction
Remyx fetches the paper’s PDF and promotes a
Code:, Project page:, or Repository: URL directly into the paper record at ingest. Downstream, that named reference repo is lifted into the implementation launch context for automated discovery PRs as the source of truth, so the agent translates from the reference and diffs against it before opening a PR.Related
Feed
Repo-backed interests trigger a brief that feeds ranking
Automated discovery PRs
The scheduled agent (Outrider) that drafts PRs from the brief
Continuous Experimentation
How discovery, briefs, and implementation form a loop