benthic

Checks reference lists from language models for invented, misattributed and retracted sources and fetches the real papers from open access

A new way for AI to search for data

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Python, JavaScript

What XERJ indexed

Snapshot

Whole repository

The whole repository at commit 7bae02ef5d (2026-10-21).

Selected work

Sinan
@isoglu

“Benthic 1.2.0”. 24 files, 1,605 lines in benthic, tests, the project root.

Licence

The repository

AGPL-3.0

Checked by a person at the pinned commit.

The XERJ corpus

Approach only

The author agreed by email on 2026-10-21. Agents read it for how it works, not to copy it. Answers name the repo, the commit and the file:line.

in licence reviewnot in the hub yetsuggested use: approach only

Example questions

Where does benthic handle “Benthic 1.2.0”?
What does benthic do in benthic?

The prompt

Paste it into your AI agent. It clones isoglu/benthic at the pinned commit and indexes it on your machine.

Search the GitHub repository isoglu/benthic with XERJ (https://hub.xerj.org/corpus/isoglu--benthic).
Run these in a shell, in order, and check each result before the next:
1. xerj --help  (success: it prints usage). If xerj is missing: curl -fsSL https://xerj.org/get | sh
2. git clone https://github.com/isoglu/benthic benthic && git -C benthic checkout 7bae02ef5d74f46f795edc626713789aee9ccf0d
3. Start a local node and leave it running: xerj --insecure --data-dir ./xerj-data
4. xerj autoindex ./benthic --url http://127.0.0.1:9200 --prefix benthic --progress plain
5. xerj autoindex map --url http://127.0.0.1:9200
Then answer my question from the indexed files and cite the ax_path of every hit. Query syntax: https://xerj.org/llms.txt
Licence: AGPL-3.0. Read it for the approach only, do not copy code.

Sinan API design and specification corpora

Selected work and consent: the XERJ registry.