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slurpyb/storm

v0.1.0MIT

Wikipedia-style long-form article generation via multi-perspective question asking and retrieval — a Claude-native port of Stanford STORM's two-stage research-to-article pipeline

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STORM

A Claude Code plugin that ports Stanford STORM (Synthesis of Topic Outlines through Retrieval and Multi-perspective Question Asking) into a Claude-native, zero-dependency skill pipeline.

Given a topic, STORM produces a Wikipedia-style long-form article with inline [n] citations and a trailing References list — grounded in web search, not parametric memory.

Pipeline (two stages, four phases)

research  ->  outline  ->  write  ->  polish
  (persona      (draft +     (per-section,      (summary +
   discovery)    refine)      cited)             dedup)

Each phase is independently runnable and resumable — completed phases are loaded from the artifact directory, mirroring STORM's stage-gated runner.

Commands

CommandPurpose
/storm:generateEnd-to-end orchestration (runs all four phases, skipping completed ones)
/storm:researchPhase 1 — persona discovery + simulated Q&A → information table
/storm:outlinePhase 2 — draft outline from parametric knowledge, refine from research
/storm:writePhase 3 — parallel per-section writing with inline citations
/storm:polishPhase 4 — summary section + duplicate removal

Design (mirrors upstream STORM)

  • Multi-perspective research: one Task subagent per persona runs the simulated Q&A concurrently.
  • Retrieval: prefers connected MCP search tools (e.g. exa-mcp-server), falls back to built-in WebSearch + WebFetch.
  • Citation hygiene: inline [1][2] + trailing References section; source snippets are citation-stripped before reuse.
  • Stage gating: each phase writes to a predictable path under the output dir; re-invocation skips completed phases.
  • Cost/quality split: cheap persona/conversation turns vs. stronger outline/section/polish work (delegated to the strongest available model).

Artifacts

By default, artifacts live in a temporary directory that is discarded at session end. Pass --save (or --output-dir <path>) to persist to docs/storm/<slug>/:

<output_dir>/<slug>/
  research/                 # personas + simulated conversations + sources.json
  outline.md
  article.md
  article-polished.md
  run-config.json

License

MIT. Based on the STORM research framework by Stanford Oval (NAACL'24 / EMNLP'24).