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• Concept DOI, always the latest release: 10.5281/zenodo.22746627
• Release v0.2.0: 10.5281/zenodo.22746628

@software{caraulani2026daydreamd,
  author  = {Caraulani, Julian},
  title   = {daydreamd: the LLM daydreaming loop, evaluated},
  year    = {2026},
  version = {0.2.0},
  doi     = {10.5281/zenodo.22746627},
  url     = {https://github.com/caraulani/llm-daydreaming}
}

Paper title, for reference lists: "daydreamd: A Selection Engine for Machine-Generated Connections over a Private Corpus, Evaluated by Planted-Bridge Recovery" (Julian Caraulani, 2026). An arXiv identifier will be added here once the preprint is posted.

Lineage to cite alongside

• Gwern Branwen, "LLM Daydreaming", 2025, https://gwern.net/ai-daydreaming
• Sean Goedecke, idea-mill, 2025, https://github.com/sgoedecke/idea-mill
• Zbigniew Lukasiak, DayDreamingDayDreaming, 2025, https://github.com/zby/DayDreamingDayDreaming
• Vault Daydream (glebis/claude-skills), 2026, https://github.com/glebis/claude-skills
• Oliver Zahn, James Evans and David Eagleman, "Discovery by Dreaming: Cross-Domain Recombination in Artificial Memory", arXiv:2607.16256, 2026

Author ORCID: 0009-0006-3889-3563.