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Cowork Plugin Setup

Install the Notion Research Hub plugin in Cowork for AI-powered paper search and essay tracking.

Prerequisites

  • Claude Pro or Max subscription (for Cowork access)
  • Notion account with the research workspace set up

Step 1: Install the Plugin

Download the plugin from GitHub Releases or install directly:

claude plugin add https://github.com/Cianai/notion-research-hub/cowork

Step 2: Connect OAuth Connectors

Go to Settings > Connectors and enable:

Required

  • Notion — reads/writes to your research databases

Recommended (for paper search)

  • PubMed — biomedical and psychology literature
  • Scholar Gateway — broad semantic paper search
  • Consensus — evidence synthesis with quality filtering

Optional (discipline-specific)

  • Clinical Trials — if researching clinical interventions
  • bioRxiv — if researching neuroscience or biology
  • HuggingFace — if researching AI/ML

Step 3: Use the Skills

/research "topic"

Searches available connectors for papers on your topic, classifies evidence levels, and ingests results to your Notion Research Papers database.

/research "peer support in community mental health"
/research "neural correlates of mindfulness meditation"

The skill routes searches based on your topic's domain profile. See domain-configs.md for the 5 pre-built profiles.

/progress

Shows a dashboard of your essay projects with papers read, progress percentage, and deadline alerts.

/progress
/progress "my essay title"

How It Works

The plugin has no bundled MCP servers — all connectors are configured globally via Settings > Connectors. This is the standard Cowork plugin pattern (same as all official plugins).

When you run /research, the skill:

  1. Checks your Notion workspace for existing coverage on the topic
  2. Searches available research connectors in domain-routed order
  3. Creates pages in your Research Papers DB via Notion MCP
  4. Creates Reading List entries linking papers to your essay project
  5. Presents a synthesis with evidence table and theme analysis