Malcom: document-context and web-research workspace

Research applicability

Accept a bounded research-assistance tool listing: concrete search/fetch/context/citation workflow is documented, beyond the generic word research. No claim of scholarly database coverage, citation accuracy or improved research outcomes.

Getting started

Editorial, untested guidance: read the README and environment example, inspect the source, then trial a non-sensitive document and verify each generated citation against the original page.

Maintenance

Live source retrieval is not a maintenance guarantee.

License

Not independently audited; check source and dependency terms before reuse.

Workflow & human oversight

Resource-level automation is unspecified. Researchers define the task, inspect sources/code and validate outputs; this review did not execute a workflow.

Workflow level is not an evidence score; higher is not better evidence.

Approach

Malcom documents an AI workspace that combines uploaded-document context with web search, retrieved source excerpts and retained source links for model-assisted research.

Limitations

README-only source review; application, search quality, document handling, privacy controls and tests were not exercised. Source links do not guarantee correct citations. No independent outcome evaluation or license audit.

Reproducibility

Documentation retrieval and source hashes verified; no software, benchmark or outcome reproduced.

Adoption requirements

README prerequisites: Node.js 20 or newer, npm and an Ollama-compatible chat server. Optional Supabase, Stripe, Brave Search and Redis are not required for the documented local-development route. Review storage and provider privacy before using confidential documents.