Getting started

Skriptr is an AI research and writing workspace for academic work: essays, theses, dissertations and literature reviews. It reads the sources you upload, helps you research, draft and cite them, and can teach you the material instead of writing about it for you.

What is Skriptr for?

For the work between finding a paper and handing something in.

That covers more than writing. You can research a field you don’t know yet, run a literature review and get the matrix as a spreadsheet, draft and revise with an agent that shows you every edit before it lands, cite in APA 7, IEEE or Chicago without maintaining a bibliography by hand, and then get taught the material and quizzed on it before the exam.

Writing is a real part of that, not a grudging one. It drafts, restructures, tightens and rewrites. What it won’t do is take "write the methods section" and hand back six paragraphs.

Ask for a section and the first thing back is a question: what is this section arguing? You work out the line together, and only then does it draft. That’s the difference between writing with something and ordering from it, and it’s why what comes back is your thinking in better prose rather than a plausible-sounding average of the internet.

Every change arrives in the document as a suggestion you keep or undo, so nothing enters your draft without you.

What is a project?

A project is one piece of work, an essay or a thesis chapter or a literature review, plus everything that belongs to it:

• Documents. What you’re writing. A project can hold several, and they open as tabs.
• Sources. The reading behind it: PDFs, notes, web pages, your assignment brief. The agent can read anything in here.
• The agent. A panel beside your document that answers questions, finds material, teaches you things and proposes edits you review before they land.

Projects stay separate. A source you add to one won’t show up in another unless you save it to your own library.

How do I start a project?

Three ways in, and the right one depends on what you already have.

Start from your materials. If you have an assignment brief, a rubric, a reading list or your own notes, upload those first. Skriptr reads them and opens by talking about the actual task, which beats explaining it from scratch. Best starting point for most coursework.

Import work you’ve already begun. Bring a draft in from Word or Overleaf and it arrives as a document you can keep writing in, structure intact. Import when you have a draft, not just an idea.

Start blank. Create an empty project and type, or start by asking the agent something. Nothing is required up front and you can add sources whenever.

What happens in the first conversation?

The agent opens the conversation rather than waiting for you, and what it does next depends on what it can see.

With materials uploaded, it runs project setup: it reads what you gave it, reflects back what it thinks the work is, and confirms the goal with you before generating anything. An assignment and a thesis get handled differently. For an assignment it mines the brief and the rubric for the sections you’re actually required to produce; for a thesis it probes the interest and helps you form and scope a research question, which is the part that takes weeks if you do it alone.

With an imported draft it offers to read what you have and tell you what it finds.

You’re not committing to anything by answering. When the agent does change your document, the changes appear in place as marked-up edits with Keep and Undo on each one, so you can take the paragraph that works and drop the one that doesn’t. Nothing is written into your draft that you haven’t seen.

What else can it do?

The parts people find late and then use most:

• Research. Find papers you don’t have, run a literature review, get a sortable matrix.
• Study. Get taught a topic from your own sources, with flashcards, quizzes and graded comprehension checks saved to your Study view.
• Argue back. Devil’s Advocate will take the other side of your claim using your own evidence, and Review Companion gives a draft a supervisor-grade read.

You reach all of it by asking in plain language. There’s no mode to learn first.

Where do I go next?

• Sources & your library. Getting your reading in, and what happens to a PDF.
• Research & literature reviews. Finding what you don’t have yet.
• Working with the agent. Asking well, and reviewing what it proposes.
• Studying & learning. Understanding it, not just citing it.
• Citations & references. APA 7, IEEE and Chicago.
• Export. Getting the finished thing out.

Still stuck?

If something here doesn’t match what you’re seeing, get in touch. We’d rather hear about it than have you work around it.