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night_owl_research_agent

Fully automatic AI research agent for Geoscientists, Remote Sensing researchers, and GIScientists. Features harness engineering, GeoBenchmark (OLS/GWR/MGWR), journal templates, and MCP servers.

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What's in it

Data offered llm-inferred
literature review (ArXiv, Semantic Scholar, local papers, Zotero, Obsidian) · research idea generation and novelty checking · dataset discovery and download with provenance tracking · spatial analysis (ESDA, GWR/MGWR, residual Moran's I) · experiment design and deployment · paper drafting and journal submission packaging
Formats docs-verified
Markdown · LaTeX · PDF · DOCX
Access docs-verified
Requires Claude Code and an Anthropic account with API credit. Optional API keys: SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY, BRAVE_API_KEY, GITHUB_TOKEN. Licence not stated.

Useful for

Use cases llm-inferred
Literature review and ranked research-gap analysis for a drainage or flood-risk evidence base before writing a technical note · Novelty check and spatial regression (OLS/GWR) on catchment attributes to support an evidence-based method statement · Dataset discovery and download with provenance logging from government portals for baseline environmental data · Consolidating pipeline outputs into a narrative technical report
Audience llm-inferred
GIS analysts · GIScientists · remote sensing researchers · geoscientists

Limitations

Constraints llm-inferred
Built for academic research workflows (papers, journal templates, reviewer loops); consultancy deliverables such as FRA or drainage design are not covered by the docs · Delivered as Claude Code skills (Markdown workflows), not as a standalone MCP data server; the tool names listed are skills · Requires Claude Code and paid Anthropic API usage · Track B spatial work needs a conda environment with geopandas, pysal, libpysal, esda, spreg, mgwr, rasterio and xarray; Track A deep-learning work needs a CUDA GPU (optional) · Requires copying the skills folder into ~/.claude/skills or a project .claude/skills directory before use · Licence not stated in metadata; maintenance status unknown · Automated pipelines are intended to run with human checkpoints; output needs expert review

Example tool calls docs-verified

Search and synthesise literature with gap analysis across ArXiv, Semantic Scholar and local papers. The docs show only a free-text argument, so the $ARGUMENTS key is an assumption.

{
  "tool": "lit-review",
  "arguments": {
    "$ARGUMENTS": "SuDS performance evidence for UK urban drainage strategies"
  }
}

Discover, evaluate and download datasets with provenance tracking. Argument format is assumed as above.

{
  "tool": "data-download",
  "arguments": {
    "$ARGUMENTS": "UK river gauge daily flow records for the Thames catchment"
  }
}

Run research-question-driven spatial analysis (classification, ESDA, method, conditional diagnostics). Argument format is assumed as above.

{
  "tool": "spatial-analysis",
  "arguments": {
    "$ARGUMENTS": "Test whether catchment rainfall-runoff relationships vary spatially, with ESDA and conditional diagnostics"
  }
}
Licence
Unknown — check provider terms
Authentication
Credentials via env: BRAVE_API_KEY, SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY (README-verified)
GitHub stars
106
Last commit
06/05/2026
Last successful page check
14/10/2026
Page health
healthy
Package
Not recorded
Verification
Not independently verified

Provenance & evidence

Geospatial deep dive (Glama/Smithery/GitHub). Tools/install/auth auto-extracted from README.

Metadata observed 15/10/2026 · research sweep: geo-deep-dive (geo-deep-dive:github-search-geo)