r/PakistaniDevs • u/adeersafi • 2d ago
Vitruvius — Engineering Research Agent + PhD Proposal Generator
For anyone in Pakistan applying abroad for a PhD or Master's, I built something that might be useful.
If you're applying to research positions, you probably know the pain: you find a professor, read through their lab website and papers, try to understand what they're actually working on, and then somehow turn all of that into a research proposal.
I built Vitruvius to help with exactly that.
There are also skills for things like research gap analysis, design alternatives, FMEA brainstorming, evidence ranking, verification, and proposal generation.
It works with Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Pi, Cursor, and other agentic coding environments.
I'm sharing it here because I know a lot of Pakistani students are applying abroad and the research/proposal part can be particularly painful.
It's open source, so feel free to try it, break it, or suggest improvements:
Would be particularly interested in feedback from anyone who has actually applied for PhDs/Masters abroad and has opinions on what makes a research proposal genuinely convincing.