Paper2Agent is out in Nature: papers become MCP-powered virtual authors you can collaborate with
james_y_zou · x · 2026-09-17
First author Jiacheng Miao announces Paper2Agent's publication in Nature. The multi-agent framework converts a paper's manuscript, code, data and supplements into an MCP server any AI agent can access, with automated testing in an agentic loop. Papers become 'virtual authors' you can query for evidence, run on your own data, and have collaborate with other papers' agents.
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