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Nancy Brain

Turn your GitHub repositories and research papers into AI-searchable knowledge bases with just a few commands.

✨ What is Nancy Brain?

Nancy Brain is a powerful tool that helps researchers, developers, and teams create searchable knowledge bases from:

  • 📚 GitHub repositories - Index code, documentation, and READMEs
  • 📄 PDF articles - Research papers, documentation, reports
  • 🔍 Smart search - Semantic search powered by AI embeddings
  • 🛠️ Multiple interfaces - CLI, web UI, API, and integrations

🚀 Quick Start

# Install
pip install nancy-brain

# Initialize a project
nancy-brain init my-knowledge-base
cd my-knowledge-base

# Edit config/repositories.yml to add your repos
nancy-brain build

# Search your knowledge base
nancy-brain search "machine learning algorithms"

🎯 Perfect For

  • Researchers - Index academic papers and related code repositories
  • ML Engineers - Create searchable knowledge bases of ML frameworks
  • Development Teams - Make tribal knowledge discoverable
  • Students - Build personal knowledge bases from coursework

🔌 Integrations

Nancy Brain works seamlessly with your existing tools:

  • VS Code - Via Model Context Protocol (MCP)
  • Claude Desktop - Direct integration
  • Slack - Team knowledge bot
  • Custom GPTs - OpenAI integration

📖 Next Steps


Nancy Brain is named after Nancy Grace Roman, the "Mother of Hubble" - helping you explore the universe of knowledge.