Future-House/paper-qa
High accuracy RAG for answering questions from scientific documents with citations
9.4k stars · 935 forks · Python
Caution
Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.
Why
- One person wrote 92% of human commits in the last year, so the project depends on them continuing. (source 1, source 2)
What would change this
- A second person takes a substantial share of commits.
Maintenance
CompleteSlowing
- Human commits, 30 days
- 0
- Human commits, 90 days
- 1
- Human commits, 365 days
- 130
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 14%
- Last commit
- Aug 12, 2026 (2 months ago)
- Last human commit
- Aug 12, 2026 (2 months ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 1
- Last release
- Aug 12, 2026 (2 months ago)
- Median PR merge time
- 1 hour
Responsiveness: of 0 recent issues, n/a got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.
- Only 0 recent issues can be checked for a response, too few to measure response time.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Organization
- Commits sampled
- 130 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 1
- Contributors
- 39
Top committers
- jamesbraza: 92% of commits
- sidnarayanan: 2% of commits
- whitead: 2% of commits
- takeruhukushima: 2% of commits
- AmT42: 1% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Sep 11, 2024 to Oct 1, 2024: about 2k more stars than usual, peak 450 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Feb 18, 2026 to Feb 20, 2026: about 67 more stars than usual, peak 32 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests, a new release.
- 2 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- The star history looks organic.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)
Packages
- paper-qa (PYPI): latest 2026.8.12, published Aug 12, 2026
Advisories for the latest version: none listed
Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.
Sources: GitHub: Future-House/paper-qa, deps.dev: PyPI paper-qa
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- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
Computed 7 hours ago · method 2026.10.2