Research Swarm - Paper-to-Production AI Pipeline

An agentic system that reads research papers (local PDFs or arXiv), generates implementation plans, writes code, and reviews it — all orchestrated by a central Director agent built on the Claude Agent SDK.

Artifacts

Rewrote transformer in C using research swarm

Working video

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_X-twfbmvwykQ3i8JyU2HN_gqcr0T0-S/view?usp=sharing

Architecture

graph TB
    User([User: Objective + Papers]) --> Director

    subgraph Orchestration
        Director[Director AgentOpus - Orchestrator]
    end

    subgraph "Stage 1: Read"
        Director -->|local files| PaperReader[Paper ReaderSonnet]
        Director -->|arXiv IDs| ArxivReader[ArXiv ReaderSonnet + MCP]
    end

    subgraph "Stage 2: Plan"
        Director --> Planner[PlannerOpus]
    end

    subgraph "Stage 3: Code"
        Director --> Coder[CoderOpus + Sandbox]
    end

    subgraph "Stage 4: Review"
        Director --> Reviewer[ReviewerSonnet]
    end

    PaperReader -->|summaries| Approval1{User Approval}
    ArxivReader -->|summaries| Approval1
    Approval1 --> Planner
    Planner -->|plan| Approval2{User Approval}
    Approval2 --> Coder
    Coder -->|code| Approval3{User Approval}
    Approval3 --> Reviewer
    Reviewer -->|review| Approval4{User Approval}
    Approval4 --> Deliver([Final Delivery])

    style Director fill:#6366f1,color:#fff
    style PaperReader fill:#06b6d4,color:#fff
    style ArxivReader fill:#06b6d4,color:#fff
    style Planner fill:#8b5cf6,color:#fff
    style Coder fill:#8b5cf6,color:#fff
    style Reviewer fill:#06b6d4,color:#fff
    style Approval1 fill:#f59e0b,color:#000
    style Approval2 fill:#f59e0b,color:#000
    style Approval3 fill:#f59e0b,color:#000
    style Approval4 fill:#f59e0b,color:#000

Pipeline

sequenceDiagram
    participant U as User
    participant D as Director
    participant R as Paper Reader
    participant P as Planner
    participant C as Coder
    participant V as Reviewer

    U->>D: Objective + Papers (PDF/MD or arXiv IDs)
    D->>R: Read & summarize papers
    R-->>D: output/summaries/
    D->>U: Here's what I found. Proceed?
    U->>D: Yes, focus on technique X

    D->>P: Create implementation plan
    P-->>D: output/plans/plan.md
    D->>U: Here's the plan. Approve?
    U->>D: Approved

    D->>C: Implement the plan
    C->>C: Write code + sandbox test each module
    C-->>D: output/code/
    D->>U: Code ready. Review?
    U->>D: Yes

    D->>V: Review code vs paper
    V-->>D: output/reviews/review.md
    D->>U: Review: PASS (score 8/10)

How It Works