Local-first research infrastructure

Research should not lose its memory.

RKA Project turns notes, experiments, decisions, and evidence into durable research knowledge that people and AI agents can retrieve, inspect, and reuse.

Core available · Writer in development

Research record
KnowledgeLiterature · claims · context
EvidenceExperiments · decisions · rationale

One knowledge substrate, focused products

Keep the research record separate from the work built on top of it.

Available now

RKA Core

Capture research activity as durable records, connect decisions to evidence, and recover the full story across sessions and tools.

Explore Core

In development

RKA Writer

A researcher-in-the-loop workbench that turns selected knowledge into a clear argument without collapsing the writing process into fact filling.

Follow Writer
From activity to reusable knowledge

Keep the reasoning that makes a result meaningful.

01

Capture

Record observations, literature, decisions, experiments, failures, and open questions as the work happens.

02

Crystallize

Review tentative interpretations and connect them to claims, evidence, research questions, and provenance.

03

Reuse

Retrieve the complete reasoning behind an idea and carry it into future experiments, papers, proposals, and research artifacts.

Designed for long-running research

Research memory should remain useful, inspectable, and yours.

RKA preserves how a project changes, not only its latest summary. AI can help retrieve and connect the record, while consequential judgments remain visible to the researcher.

Local-first

Your research record remains under your control.

Provenance-aware

Claims can be traced to the observations, evidence, and decisions behind them.

Researcher-controlled

AI suggestions do not silently become canonical research knowledge.

Provider-agnostic

The knowledge layer works across models, clients, and research tools.

Now / next / later

A focused path from reliable core to accessible research infrastructure.

Now

Stable external contract

Publish version and capability discovery, protect the supported REST and MCP contract, export legacy Writer state, and register sources with durable provenance.

Next

Simple distribution

Deliver an RKA App that makes setup approachable without requiring Docker or manual MCP configuration.

Later

Writer workbench

Build a separate, researcher-in-the-loop environment for argument design and manuscript development.

RKA Project

Build on the record you already created.

Start with RKA Core and carry your research knowledge across sessions, tools, collaborators, and future outputs.