About E2ER
E2ER is open infrastructure for publishing, verifying, reproducing and reusing AI-enabled research. The software is open source under the MIT licence.
Your research can live entirely on your machine
You can run, export and check research without an account. Publishing is optional and adds a public description; the files stay where you keep them. The AI models are hosted services, so the text sent to them leaves your machine. Every connector states what it sends out.
| Step | Command | Status | Local or not |
|---|---|---|---|
| Run a template | e2er run | In place | Workspace and run database stay on your machine. Prompts go to the AI provider you choose. |
| AI providers | anthropic, openrouter, claude_code, codex, gemini | In place | All five are hosted. A provider that runs on your own computer is not supported yet. |
| Literature library | e2er corpus | In place | PDF files and the library database stay local. A passage is sent to the AI provider when a specialist reads it. |
| Export the results | e2er export | In place | Paper, results, code and a fingerprint of every file, written to a local folder. |
| Check the results | e2er verify | In place | Runs without an account or API key. |
| Check citations online | e2er verify --online | In place | Optional. Sends the reference list to OpenAlex, Crossref or Semantic Scholar. |
| Prepare publication | e2er publish | Prototype | Writes a description of the study to a local file. On a development branch. |
| Publish on E2ER | Prototype | Optional. Adds the description to the public list; the files stay where you keep them. | |
| Record AI usage in the export | Planned | Usage per specialist is in the run database and the publication description. The exported folder does not carry it yet. | |
| Fingerprint the raw input data | Planned | The export holds the data dictionary and summary statistics. Fingerprints of the raw files are planned. |
A run without enforced checks
On 5 August 2026 E2ER ran one research question with its checks recording problems but not stopping the run. Full record.
Governance
Changes to the formats are proposed and discussed on the proposals page. How a steering group is formed and when the formats move to a neutral body are still open.
Background: Brunsson and Jacobsson, A World of Standards, Oxford University Press, 2000; O'Mahony and Ferraro, "The emergence of governance in an open source community", Academy of Management Journal 50(5), 2007, 1079–1106.
Risks
| Risk | Current response |
|---|---|
| Checks favour work that a machine can check, such as numbers. | Each template lists which checks apply to its method; the others are marked not applicable. |
| Researchers hand over judgment to the specialists. | A run can pause for the researcher at chosen stages (e2er run --review-at). |
| Dependence on a few AI providers. | Five providers are supported, and one question can be run on several and compared (compare runs). |
| Usage figures invite gaming. | The site shows no scores or rankings of people. Only published studies count in figures. |
| A study can pass every check and still be weak. | "Checked" means traceable. Quality is judged by readers and reviewers. |
Data protection
E2ER does not upload your data. The datasets in Discover are public deposits on Zenodo and Harvard Dataverse. Approval and consent for research with personal data are not recorded yet; a field for them in the study description is planned.
Credit
Published studies list their contributors with CRediT roles and cite the templates, specialists, skills and datasets they used. A DOI for each published study, deposited on Zenodo, is planned.