Use visible Feynman alpha tools when they are available. For shell commands, use feynman alpha ...; do not call the user's bare global alpha binary because it can be stale.
Commands
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
feynman alpha search "<query>" |
Search papers. Prefer --mode semantic by default; use --mode keyword only for exact-term lookup and --mode agentic for broader retrieval. |
feynman alpha get <arxiv-id-or-url> |
Fetch paper content and any local annotation |
feynman alpha get --full-text <arxiv-id> |
Get raw full text instead of AI report |
feynman alpha ask <arxiv-id> "<question>" |
Ask a question about a paper's PDF |
feynman alpha code <github-url> [path] |
Read files from a paper's GitHub repo. Use / for overview |
feynman alpha annotate <paper-id> "<note>" |
Save a persistent annotation on a paper |
feynman alpha annotate --clear <paper-id> |
Remove an annotation |
feynman alpha annotate --list |
List all annotations |
Auth
Run feynman alpha login to authenticate with alphaXiv. Check status with feynman alpha status.
Examples
feynman alpha search "transformer scaling laws"
feynman alpha search --mode agentic "efficient attention mechanisms for long context"
feynman alpha get 2106.09685
feynman alpha ask 2106.09685 "What optimizer did they use?"
feynman alpha code https://github.com/karpathy/nanoGPT src/model.py
feynman alpha annotate 2106.09685 "Key paper on LoRA - revisit for adapter comparison"
When to use
- Academic paper search, reading, Q&A → Feynman alpha tools or
feynman alpha - Current topics (products, releases, docs) → web search tools
- Mixed topics → combine both