research-lookup

research-lookup is a skill for Claude Code from magic3007/dotfiles. It costs 97 tokens per session (5,550 once invoked), scanned C, a copy of research-lookup, MIT.

A research-search skill that finds current scientific information, papers, technical documentation, and sources through several search services. It routes different queries to the service suited to them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find recent studies, verify research claims, collect background information, locate papers, and gather sources for scientific writing.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to choose and query multiple research-search tools separately when checking scientific claims or gathering literature.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to find recent studies, verify research claims, collect background information, locate papers, and gather sources for scientific writing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/magic3007/dotfiles/research-lookup
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add magic3007/dotfiles --skill research-lookup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/magic3007/dotfiles

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote 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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Per session 97 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,550 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 2 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 97% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00097 $0.05550
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.02775
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.01110
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00555

Measured 5d ago against content hash 7edd5a2e50f6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

research-lookup scanned grade C with 2 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 6 executable files (examples.py, lookup.py, research_lookup.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Downloads and executes remote codehighSupply chain

curl | sh runs whatever the server returns today, which is not necessarily what it returned when this was reviewed.

curl -fsSL https://parallel.ai/install.sh | bash

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -fsSL https://parallel.ai/install.sh | bash
Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to research-lookup — 5 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

claude/skills/scientific-agent-skills/skills/research-lookup/SKILL.md · 552 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 552 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-cli search (parallel-web skill): Primary and default backend for all research queries. Fast, cost-effective web search with academic source prioritization. Uses parallel-cli search with --include-domains for scholarly sources.
  • Parallel Chat API (core model): Secondary backend for complex, multi-source deep research requiring extended synthesis (60s-5min latency). Use only when explicitly needed.
  • 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:

Read the full file on GitHub · 552 lines

Files

What ships with it

7 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.

Changes

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.

  1. 5d ago First seen · 552 lines · 97 tokens per session scan C 7edd5a2e50f6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

research-lookup is a skill published in the GitHub repository magic3007/dotfiles (11 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 97 tokens to every session and 5,550 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 2 findings (downloads and executes remote code, makes network calls). It is 97% identical to research-lookup, differing in 5 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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