Seerai v1.4.0 Release Notes

Release of Seer-AI v1.4.0, a major milestone that transforms Seerai from a chat assistant into a powerful Agentic Research Assistant.

Key Highlights

🤖 Agentic Chat System

The core of this release is a brand-new agentic loop and tool-execution framework. Seerai can now autonomously use tools to perform complex research tasks.

  • Intelligent Tool Selection: The agent selects the best tools based on your queries.
  • Recursive Reasoning: The agent can break down complex questions into multiple steps.
  • Human-in-the-Loop: New inline permission UI allows you to approve or deny sensitive tool calls (like web searches or file modifications) without leaving the chat.

🛠️ New Research Tool Suite

A comprehensive set of tools is now available to the agent:

  • Search Tool: Filter and find papers in your library with precision.
  • Read & Note Tools: Deeply analyze PDF content and manage your notes.
  • Table Tool: Extract and structure data into comparative tables automatically.
  • Web Tool: Real-time web search and content fetching via Firecrawl.
  • Collection Tool: Organize your research library.

🔌 MCP Server & API Layer

Extend Seer-AI beyond Zotero.

  • Model Context Protocol (MCP): Use Seer-AI’s capabilities in external tools that support mcp protocol.
  • Local plugin API: Programmatic access to chat, tool execution, and library state via a local REST API.

🎨 UI & UX Enhancements

  • Agentic Process Tracing: Beautiful UI for visualizing the agent’s thought process and tool execution.
  • Refined Table Editor: Simplified controls for managing AI columns and generating data.
  • Chat history integration: Manage multiple chats/sessions at once.
  • Vision Improvements: More robust handling of pasted images for multimodal analysis.