Alterlab Research Lookup

alterlab-ieu/alterlab-research-lookup

Look up current research and scholarly papers by auto-routing each query to the best backend — the Parallel Web Systems Chat API (general research) or Perplexity sonar-pro-search (academic paper searches) — and save every result with citations to sources/. Use when finding papers, gathering research data, verifying scientific claims, or assembling citation lists and unsure which search backend fits. For plain general web search or extracting content from a known URL prefer alterlab-parallel-web instead (requires PARALLEL_API_KEY and OPENROUTER_API_KEY). Part of the AlterLab Academic Skills suite.

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Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/AlterLab-IEU/AlterLab-Academic-Skills --skill alterlab-research-lookup

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take alterlab-ieu/alterlab-research-lookup from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

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