Show HN: A Modern Agentic LaTeX Editor

Category: devtools

Tags: latex, pdf-editing, ai-agent, desktop-app, typescript, git

Score: 6.8/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 7, Documentation: 7, Utility: 6)

Papilot is a desktop LaTeX editor that lets users review AI agent edits directly on the rendered PDF instead of reading .tex diffs, with per-change accept/reject/comment workflow. It brings your own agent CLI, keeps plain files under Git, and ships for macOS and Linux. The PDF-native review loop is a genuinely clever reframing of AI-assisted writing for academic typesetting.

Target audience: academic researchers, students, technical writers, LaTeX users

Repository: https://papilot.ai/ · TypeScript · MIT · 128 stars

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