Automation
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Building a Literature Surveillance System
Free tools like Google Scholar alerts and Semantic Scholar already monitor academic literature. What an AI coding assistant adds is the glue: combining sources, following citation networks, and catching the quiet failures that make AI-gathered references dangerous.
Hooks: Automation Without Asking
Hooks are automatic triggers that run without asking - like auto-save, but for research tasks. A power-user feature, entirely optional.
Monitoring Government Data Portals
A case study in tracking California health data releases with Claude Code.