Find Literature

Search academic literature for papers relevant to a query. The search will return a ranked list of papers with relevance scores, summaries, and supporting snippets.

This is an advanced search, so the query can be long and complex. You may ask the user questions to clarify the topic and refine the query before running the search.

Choosing find vs interactive

Two entry points are available. Both run the same retrieval pipeline (criteria extraction, candidate retrieval, re-ranking). The significant difference is what happens around that pipeline — and the right choice is mostly driven by what the session as a whole is about, not by the complexity of any single query:

• asta literature interactive — default for literature-focused sessions. Use it when the first interaction in the session is about literature search or exploration, or when the entire session is focused on literature. It runs the full Asta paper-finder agent: better planning for complex or multi-faceted queries (decomposition, iterative search strategies) and a reasoning / results-verification loop that can re-run or refine the search when the initial