# Research Paper Summarizer

Ingest papers from arXiv links or PDFs and produce structured summaries with methodology, findings, limitations, and practical takeaways.

## Problem
Research is dense and time-consuming to parse, making it hard to extract what matters for real projects.

## Core capabilities
- Parse PDFs and metadata into machine-readable structure.
- Summarize abstract, method, experiments, and conclusions separately.
- Extract risks, assumptions, and reproducibility notes.
- Compare multiple papers on the same topic.

## MVP scope
- arXiv URL and local PDF ingestion.
- Structured output template with citation links.
- Save summaries to markdown knowledge base.

## Success criteria
- Faster literature review cycles.
- Better decision quality when selecting approaches.

## Stretch ideas
- Generate implementation checklists from papers.
- Alert when new papers match tracked themes.