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Deep research that runs on your own machine.

Sponge runs as a background service with a terminal chat and a terminal status view. Ask a question, and it gathers sources, keeps their text, and writes a report that cites them.

Sponge is in private preview, and there is no public install yet. You can use Sponge Library, the hosted library at sponge.computer, today.

spongev2 project create ~/Research/reefs --name Reefs \
  --question 'What does the evidence say about reef recovery?'
spongev2 tui ~/Research/reefs

Commands from the private preview. Read the Knowledge pack post, or call the Sponge Library API.

Research
Follow a question through public sources to a checked, cited report.
Improve
Test a better way to research. Adopt it when you choose, or return to the previous strategy.
Publish
Find your work again, and publish only what you choose, on your own site or wordcell.io.

See a question become a cited report

Follow a research question from the terminal chat to a cited report, then open a source to check the evidence.

Step 1 of 4. Type /deep and a question in the terminal chat.

Read Introducing Sponge

From a question to a cited report

Create a project with a question. Sponge gathers the sources and keeps the report current.

  1. Create a project

    Give it a question and a folder. Sponge saves each source’s text and records its work, so a task continues after you close the terminal.

  2. Ask, or go deep

    Ask in the terminal chat, or use /deep for a planned investigation within the limits you set. Missing search results and partial evidence stay visible.

  3. Keep it current

    Schedules refresh the report from saved sources, and deep schedules can gather new public sources. Your own notes outside the generated section stay as you wrote them.

Where to find Sponge today

You can read the daily paper digest Sponge writes and use the hosted library today.

Daily papers

The Hraness literature pipeline runs Sponge every day to watch for new papers, write a digest, and publish it at hraness.com/papers.

See the papers

Sponge Library

Save articles and PDFs as dated, readable copies with your highlights and notes, and let your own AI agent, such as Codex or Claude Code, read and cite them through the API.

Open Sponge Library

You decide what changes

Sponge researches and checks its drafts. You decide which strategy it uses and what it publishes.

Runs on your machine
Projects, source text, and reports live in folders you choose. Sponge has no model account of its own.
Strategy changes wait for you
A new brief-research strategy applies only after you adopt it, and you can restore the previous one. Deep research is not evolved.
Citations you can check
Each report cites saved sources. The citation check confirms that each reference points to a saved source, not that every claim is true.

Before you begin.

What is Sponge?

A research tool that runs on your machine. Ask a question, then read a report with saved sources you can check.

How do I get it?

Sponge is in private preview, with no public install yet. Read the Knowledge pack post to see how it works, or use Sponge Library today.

Which models does it use?

Sponge uses the AI coding subscriptions you already have. You keep your existing provider account.

How does Sponge improve its research?

Sponge tests a proposed research strategy against your current one. You choose whether to adopt it and can return to the previous strategy.

Can it read pages I sign in to?

Yes. Connect an existing browser sign-in to capture pages you can access. Sponge keeps the saved source text.

Who uses it today?

The Hraness literature pipeline runs Sponge every day to watch for new papers, write a digest, and publish it at hraness.com/papers.

What is Sponge Library?

The hosted library at sponge.computer, and the first Sponge product. It keeps a dated copy of each article or PDF you save, anchors your highlights and notes to it, and gives your agent a scoped, expiring token to read and cite it. Sign in with your Sponge account, or create one.

Who makes Sponge?

Hraness builds Sponge. Hraness is a software studio that makes tools for AI agents and for people, from agent memory to music. Most are open source.

Private preview

Deep research that runs on your own machine.

See how Sponge works with the rest of the Knowledge pack.

Sponge is in private preview, and there is no public install yet. You can use Sponge Library, the hosted library at sponge.computer, today.