Building a research-software catalog with a coding agent: from hackathon prototype to public deployment

The paper reports on building a research-software catalog using a coding agent, starting from a three‑day hackathon prototype and moving to public deployment. It details the engineering work needed—adversarial review, data‑quality checks, browser validation, and publication safeguards—to ensure reliable operation, noting that silent failures were more problematic than crashes. The authors then examine applying these lessons to a larger, human‑curated portal (MateriApps) that combines curated metadata, external documentation, vector search, and local language‑model generation, finding that explicit validation, monitoring, and repeated review remain essential for AI‑assisted software portals.

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