cff-version: 1.2.0
title: "SciMD — Scientific Markdown for the AI Era"
message: "If you use SciMD in your research or software, please cite it using the metadata below."
type: software
authors:
  - family-names: "Avilés Calderón"
    given-names: "Juan Francisco"
    email: "avilesfran21@gmail.com"
repository-code: "https://github.com/avifranca/scimd"
url: "https://github.com/avifranca/scimd"
abstract: >
  SciMD is a plain-text document format for scientific and technical writing,
  designed to be AI-friendly and optimized for RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
  pipelines and LLM training. It solves the fragmentation of scientific documents
  in PDF-heavy workflows by providing semantic section boundaries, mandatory
  interpretations for charts and figures, MermaidJS diagrams, and structured
  metadata — all in a single UTF-8 plain-text file.
keywords:
  - scientific writing
  - document format
  - RAG
  - LLM
  - markdown
  - open science
  - AI
license: MIT
version: "0.1.0"
date-released: "2026-03-18"
