Consensus from the command line
Search across peer-reviewed research papers.
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Search across peer-reviewed research papers. GBrain gives Consensus, and every other connector you add, a command line.
One price for one person: Consensus and every other connector GBrain offers, from a terminal or any AI. Cancel any time.
Consensus is connected on its own sign-in page, in the browser. A key or a sign-in never passes through the terminal.
# AI agents: read gbrain.io/llms.txt curl -sSL https://gbrainio.terminalwire.sh | bash gbrainio terminal connect
The installer is a shell script for macOS and Linux. Read it before you run it.
# Every Consensus command, once Consensus is connected gbrainio tool help consensus
Consensus is a search engine for published research, covering more than 400 million papers from Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex and PubMed. Connected to a workspace, GBrain can answer “what do randomized trials say about four-day work weeks?” and link each paper it cites on consensus.app.
It can narrow results to meta-analyses, systematic reviews or studies in people, and keep a search going as a thread the team adds questions to.
Each terminal reaches Consensus at the level set for it in the browser: Off, or On, which is every command Consensus's server lists. A terminal reads its level and never raises it.
Each of Consensus's commands stops at 1,000 actions a day on the account it reaches, whichever terminal or AI asks, and starts again at midnight UTC. Only that command stops.
Each command a terminal runs on Consensus is a row on GBrain's activity log: which terminal, which account, what it did and whether it was allowed, refusals included. gbrainio activity ls --tool consensus reads it back.
Consensus's own server lists its commands only to a terminal that has connected it, so they are not on this page. Once Consensus is connected, gbrainio tool help consensus says what each of them does, and gbrainio tool ls lists them with everything else the terminal can run. Claude Code and Codex run the same commands, at the same level, on the same record.
GBrain reaches Consensus at its own server, mcp.consensus.app. On Consensus's own pages: its website, how the connection works, its terms of service and its privacy policy.
The GBrain Tools command line works with every other connector GBrain offers, each with a page like this one.
Personal is $49 a month for one person. Connect Consensus in the browser, and say how far each terminal and each AI may go with it. Change any of it, or take all of it back, whenever you want.