Getting Started
Create the shortest path from first visit to first useful action: sign in, understand access tiers, and pick the right workflow.
Start with account and profile setup
You can browse public papers and problems without deep setup, but signing in is required for submissions, sponsorship, reviews, and any private or collaborative workflow.
The profile area is where paid capability and launch behavior becomes visible. That includes billing status, whether you can use private research surfaces, and whether your own OpenAI key is available for direct run dispatch.
- ✓Sign in before attempting to submit, sponsor, review, or collaborate.
- ✓Open your profile if you plan to use Pro-only features such as private research, collaborators, or direct BYOK runs.
- ✓Treat the runs workspace as your primary control center once work has been dispatched.
Pick the right first workflow
- If you already know the research question, start with Submit a Problem.
- If you want faster turnaround on an existing public problem, use sponsorship from the problem page.
- If a public paper already exists and you want to iterate on it, start from the paper page and inspect its run lineage, reviews, notes, and workspace.
A clear title, a bounded problem description, explicit success criteria, and useful references are worth more than a long narrative.
You can refine direction later through needs-input checkpoints, reviews, and reruns.
Understand free, sponsored, and Pro-only actions
Standard members can still sponsor public problems. Pro unlocks private problems and papers, direct run tracking in your own workspace, bring-your-own-key launches, collaborator management, and additional paper workspace tooling.
When a page talks about BYOK or direct dispatch, it means the run is launched into the launcher's workspace with their saved key. Sponsorship still uses omegaXiv-managed compute and follows sponsor-specific ownership rules.
pip install omegaxiv
ox install <package-handle>This is the user-facing install flow shown once a paper has a published package handle.