Getting it into your agent
It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skillsnpx agentmods add skills/leonchaox/qinyan-academic-skills/research-lookupWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/leonchaox/qinyan-academic-skills/research-lookup)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/leonchaox/qinyan-academic-skills/research-lookup"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/leonchaox/qinyan-academic-skills/research-lookup/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/leonchaox/qinyan-academic-skills/research-lookup"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/leonchaox/qinyan-academic-skills/research-lookup.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00051 | $0.03657 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00026 | $0.01828 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00010 | $0.00731 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00366 |
Grade A, and why
research-lookup scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 414 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Research Information Lookup
Overview
This skill provides real-time research information lookup with intelligent backend routing:
- Parallel Chat API (
coremodel): Default backend for all general research queries. Provides comprehensive, multi-source research reports with inline citations via the OpenAI-compatible Chat API athttps://api.parallel.ai. - Perplexity sonar-pro-search (via OpenRouter): Used only for academic-specific paper searches where scholarly database access is critical.
The skill automatically detects query type and routes to the optimal backend.
When to Use This Skill
Use this skill when you need:
- Current Research Information: Latest studies, papers, and findings
- Literature Verification: Check facts, statistics, or claims against current research
- Background Research: Gather context and supporting evidence for scientific writing
- Citation Sources: Find relevant papers and studies to cite
- Technical Documentation: Look up specifications, protocols, or methodologies
- Market/Industry Data: Current statistics, trends, competitive intelligence
- Recent Developments: Emerging trends, breakthroughs, announcements
Visual Enhancement with Scientific Schematics
When creating documents with this skill, always consider adding scientific diagrams and schematics to enhance visual communication.
If your document does not already contain schematics or diagrams:
- Use the scientific-schematics skill to generate AI-powered publication-quality diagrams
- Simply describe your desired diagram in natural language
python scripts/generate_schematic.py "your diagram description" -o figures/output.png
Automatic Backend Selection
The skill automatically routes queries to the best backend based on content:
Routing Logic
Query arrives
|
+-- Contains academic keywords? (papers, DOI, journal, peer-reviewed, etc.)
| YES --> Perplexity sonar-pro-search (academic search mode)
|
+-- Everything else (general research, market data, technical info, analysis)
--> Parallel Chat API (core model)
What ships with it
5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 12d ago First seen · 414 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A f917e638fb9b
research-lookup is a skill published in the GitHub repository LeonChaoX/qinyan-academic-skills (883 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 3,657 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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