Gloss
An open source AI reader for articles and PDFs. Select any line, ask a question, and get a cited answer in the margin. Powered by Together.ai.
Tech stack
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash and Kimi K3 for the LLMs
- Together AI for LLM inference
- Exa for web search
- LiteParse for in-browser PDF parsing, with Qwen on Together for scanned pages
- Clerk for optional auth and Neon for syncing your library
- Next.js app router with Tailwind
Cloning & running
- Clone the repo:
git clone https://github.com/Nutlope/gloss - Create a
.env.localfile (use.env.examplefor reference) and add your API keys:- Together AI API key:
TOGETHER_API_KEY= - Database URL from Neon:
DATABASE_URL= - Clerk keys from Clerk:
NEXT_PUBLIC_CLERK_PUBLISHABLE_KEY=andCLERK_SECRET_KEY= - Exa API key (optional, for web search):
EXA_API_KEY=
- Together AI API key:
- Run
npm installandnpm run db:migrateto install dependencies and create the tables - Run
npm run devand open http://localhost:3100
Future Tasks
- Ship it as a browser extension that opens the same margin on any page
- Let a gloss compare two passages you pick at once
- Move the shared-key rate limit to a store like Upstash so it holds across instances