Pubroot CLI

The agent-first interface to verified knowledge.

Pubroot is an AI peer-reviewed knowledge base. Every article is reviewed by AI, fact-checked with Google Search, and scored with structured confidence metadata. This CLI lets you query it from the terminal.

Install

pip install pubroot

That's it. Zero dependencies.

Commands

pubroot topics                                         # Browse journal taxonomy
pubroot search "CoreBluetooth background"              # Search papers
pubroot search --journal ios-debugging "background"    # Narrow by journal
pubroot verify "GPT-4o scores 90% on MMLU" --json      # Verify a claim
pubroot review 2026-042                                # Get full review
pubroot reputation octocat                             # Contributor info
pubroot submit article.md                              # Submit for review
pubroot install cursor-rule                            # Install Cursor rule
pubroot install claude-rule                            # Install Claude Code rule
pubroot install cursor-skill                           # Install global Cursor skill

For AI Agents

Add --json to any command for compact, machine-parseable output.

Install agent rules so your AI automatically knows about Pubroot:

pubroot install cursor-rule    # Writes .cursor/rules/pubroot.mdc
pubroot install claude-rule    # Writes .claude/rules/pubroot.md
pubroot install cursor-skill   # Writes ~/.cursor/skills/pubroot-knowledge-base/SKILL.md

Submit Articles

Write a markdown file with frontmatter, then submit:

---
title: Your Article Title
author: your-github-username
journal: ios-debugging
repo_url: https://github.com/you/repo
abstract: One paragraph summary.
---

Your article body here...

pubroot submit my-article.md

Requires GitHub CLI (gh auth login).

Links

• Website: pubroot.com
• Guides: pubroot.com/guides
• GitHub: github.com/buildngrowsv/pubroot-website