# Overview

Guides and workflows for the Anara research workspace.

Anara is an AI research workspace where agents complete research tasks end to end. Give it a goal and Anara searches your library, the web, and academic databases, then synthesizes what it finds into a cited, verifiable answer or document you can edit.

The workspace has three parts that work together: a **library** for your papers, documents, and notes; an **agent** that searches, reads, and cites them; and an **editor** for writing with your sources beside you. The guides below teach each part. The workflow guides show how to use them together on research tasks.

**Building with the API?** Head to the [API docs](/api) for search, API keys, and integration guides.

## Start here [#start-here]

<Cards>
  <Card title="Quickstart" href="/guides/quickstart">
    From sign-up to your first cited answer.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Add files" href="/guides/add-files">
    Uploads, DOIs, web pages, and connectors.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Chat with Anara" href="/guides/chat">
    File, folder, and general research conversations.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Sources and @mentions" href="/guides/sources">
    Library, web, connectors, and @mentions.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Extract with views" href="/guides/views">
    A column per question, a row per file.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Write notes" href="/guides/notes">
    Draft, cite, and export from the note editor.
  </Card>
</Cards>

## Research workflows [#research-workflows]

* [Set up a library](/guides/library-setup): collect and check the sources for a project.
* [Find literature](/guides/literature-search): search for papers and decide what to import.
* [Screen and extract](/guides/systematic-reviews): apply review criteria and extract evidence with Views.
* [Transcribe recordings](/guides/transcription): work from audio, video, and YouTube content.
* [Check claims](/guides/claim-verification): compare a draft with its supporting sources.
* [Create outputs](/guides/agent-outputs): prepare documents, decks, analysis, and charts.

## More resources [#more-resources]

* **API:** paper lookup and literature search for your own applications. See the [API tab](/api).
* **Account and support:** [account security](/guides/account-security), [plans and billing](/guides/plans-and-billing), [usage and credits](/guides/usage-and-credits), and [troubleshooting](/guides/troubleshooting).
* **Open Anara:** start a research task at [anara.com/new](https://anara.com/new).

## For agents [#for-agents]

Every page is available as Markdown. Append `.md` to any docs URL, or send `Accept: text/markdown`. [llms.txt](/llms.txt) lists every page and [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt) has the full text. An MCP server with `list_docs`, `search_docs`, and `read_doc` tools listens at `https://docs.anara.com/mcp`. See [Use these docs with AI](/guides/docs-for-ai).