MechInterp Studio (miStudio): The Complete User Manual
MechInterp Studio (miStudio) is an end-to-end mechanistic interpretability platform designed to replace the fragmented tooling typically associated with AI safety research — Jupyter notebooks, custom scripts, and manually tracked experiments — with a professional, database-backed workbench.
By providing a unified environment for data management, SAE training, feature discovery, and causal intervention testing, miStudio allows researchers to move from hypothesis to proven intervention in a fraction of the time required by traditional methods.
What's in This Manual
- Part 1: Getting Started — Introduction, installation, and navigating the dashboard
- Part 2: Core Workflow — The complete research pipeline from model selection to steering
- Part 3: Advanced Usage — Templates, external SAEs, multi-GPU, and exporting
- Troubleshooting — Common issues and key formulas