phdtaketaketake

Find the right PhD advisor by network strength and cited evidence — not h-index.
A connection-first, evidence-first advisor matcher and application-triage assistant.

🌐 Open the web app  ·  Use as an agent skill  ·  中文

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Two ways to use it

1. The web app — no install, no signup, no server

**→ https://powerofjinbo.github.io/phdtaketaketake/**

Everything runs **in your browser**. Your API key and data never leave your device.

1. Add a key in Settings (one click tests it) — Gemini is free.
2. Add your profile, or import your CV (PDF) and review the parse.
3. Run a match — an AI agent researches candidate advisors and the exact phd_matcher engine from this repo scores them, all client-side (Python via Pyodide).

**Which model?**

Provider	Cost	Web search	Notes
Gemini (gemini-2.5-pro)	Free	✅	Recommended free choice. Switch to gemini-2.5-flash if you hit rate limits.
Claude / OpenAI	Paid API	✅	Strongest evidence-cited results.
DeepSeek / GLM / MiniMax / custom	Cheap / varies	❌	No web search → suggestion-only candidates with wide confidence bands.

Web search is what lets the agent *cite* evidence. Without it, rankings are honest guesses with maximally wide confidence bands rather than fabricated facts. Free models without web search (Groq, OpenRouter, etc.) work but produce thin evidence — for cited results use Gemini (free), Claude, or OpenAI.

The web app lives in [`app/frontend`](app/frontend); a self-hosted FastAPI twin is in [`app/backend`](app/backend) (optional, not needed for the site).

2. As an agent skill

Packaged as a **Claude Code skill** —