TinyScientist: An Interactive, Extensible, and Controllable Framework for Building Research Agents

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06579v1
• Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2025 02:18:57 GMT
• Title: TinyScientist: An Interactive, Extensible, and Controllable Framework for Building Research Agents
• Authors: Haofei Yu, Keyang Xuan, Fenghai Li, Kunlun Zhu, Zijie Lei, Jiaxun Zhang, Ziheng Qi, Kyle Richardson, Jiaxuan You,
• Abstract summary: TinyScientist identifies the essential components of the automatic research workflow and proposes an interactive, controllable framework that easily adapts to new tools and supports iterative growth.<n>We provide an open-source, interactive web demonstration, and a PyPI Python package to make state-of-the-art auto-research pipelines broadly accessible to every researcher and developer.
• Score: 28.125147449800696
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Automatic research with Large Language Models (LLMs) is rapidly gaining importance, driving the development of increasingly complex workflows involving multi-agent systems, planning, tool usage, code execution, and human-agent interaction to accelerate research processes. However, as more researchers and developers begin to use and build upon these tools and platforms, the complexity and difficulty of extending and maintaining such agentic workflows have become a significant challenge, particularly as algorithms and architectures continue to advance. To address this growing complexity, TinyScientist identifies the essential components of the automatic research workflow and proposes an interactive, extensible, and controllable framework that easily adapts to new tools and supports iterative growth. We provide an open-source codebase, an interactive web demonstration, and a PyPI Python package to make state-of-the-art auto-research pipelines broadly accessible to every researcher and developer.

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