Connectors
A connector lets a run reach something outside your machine: an AI provider, a literature or data source, another pipeline, or a place to publish. Each one states what leaves your machine and what you need to provide.
AI providers
Anthropic API
Runs the specialists on Anthropic's Claude models through the API.
Leaves your machine: Prompts, including passages and data summaries
OpenRouter
Runs the specialists on models from many providers through OpenRouter.
Leaves your machine: Prompts, including passages and data summaries
Claude Code
Runs the specialists through a local Claude Code installation and its subscription.
Leaves your machine: Prompts, including passages and data summaries
Codex
Runs the specialists through a local Codex installation.
Leaves your machine: Prompts, including passages and data summaries
Gemini
Runs the specialists through a local Gemini installation.
Leaves your machine: Prompts, including passages and data summaries
Literature
PDF folder
Uses a folder of your own papers as the study's library.
Leaves your machine: Nothing leaves your machine
Zotero library (local)
Uses your local Zotero library, detected by its zotero.sqlite, as the study's library.
Leaves your machine: Nothing leaves your machine
Zotero Web API
Reads a user or group library from zotero.org.
Leaves your machine: Queries only
OpenAlex
Finds literature and confirms that cited works exist.
Leaves your machine: References or search terms
Crossref
Confirms references against Crossref's DOI records.
Leaves your machine: References or search terms
Semantic Scholar
Finds literature and confirms references; a key raises the rate limit.
Leaves your machine: References or search terms
arXiv
Finds preprints on arXiv.
Leaves your machine: Queries only
Unpaywall
Finds legal open-access copies of papers.
Leaves your machine: References or search terms
Data sources
Your data folder
Brings your own CSV, Parquet, Excel and other data files into a run.
Leaves your machine: Nothing leaves your machine
FRED
Macroeconomic and financial time series from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
Leaves your machine: Queries only
Yahoo Finance (yfinance)
Daily market prices through the yfinance library.
Leaves your machine: Queries only
Allium
Blockchain and crypto-market data through Allium's API.
Leaves your machine: Queries only
Survey export (CSV, SPSS)
Reads a survey platform's export with its codebook, and keeps variable labels.
Leaves your machine: Nothing leaves your machine
Interview transcripts folder
Reads a folder of interview transcripts with speaker turns and anonymisation markers.
Leaves your machine: Nothing leaves your machine
App store rankings panel
Pulls daily rankings and prices for a list of apps into a panel.
Leaves your machine: Queries only
Open data
Zenodo dataset by DOI
Downloads a dataset from Zenodo into the run's data folder by its DOI, and records the DOI for credit.
Leaves your machine: Queries only
Harvard Dataverse dataset by DOI
Downloads a dataset from Harvard Dataverse by its DOI, and records the DOI for credit.
Leaves your machine: Queries only
Other pipelines
Publishing and outputs
GitHub
Pushes each paper to its own repository, laid out so Overleaf's GitHub sync can open it.
Leaves your machine: Files, to your own account
Zenodo deposit (DOI)
Deposits a published study on Zenodo to give it a DOI.
Leaves your machine: Files, to your own account